Over the Hills to the Poorhouse is a 1973 album by Lester Flatt and Mac Wiseman on RCA Victor (APL1-0309). It was their third record together for RCA, after Lester ’N’ Mac (1971) and On the South Bound (1972). Wiseman had been the guitarist in Flatt and Scruggs’s Foggy Mountain Boys early in his career, and after the Flatt and Scruggs partnership ended in 1969 Flatt formed the Nashville Grass.
Eight of the ten songs were recorded at RCA Victor Studio on 17th Avenue South in Nashville on 5 July 1973, in two sessions, with Bob Ferguson and Jack Clement producing. Flatt and Wiseman both sing and play guitar. Ray Edenton adds guitar, Charles Nixon dobro, Haskel McCormick banjo, Marty Stuart mandolin, Robby Osborne drums, and Howdy Forrester and Paul Warren fiddle. Stuart was 14, and had begun playing with Flatt the year before. “Blue Ridge Cabin Home” and “Waiting for the Boys to Come Home” are from a session of 20 October 1971 that also produced songs for On the South Bound.
The program includes “’Tis Sweet to Be Remembered,” written by Wiseman and issued as his first solo single in 1951; “Ain’t Nobody Gonna Miss Me When I’m Gone,” credited to Flatt; “There’s More Pretty Girls Than One,” credited to Arthur Smith and Alton Delmore; and “The Girl I Love Don’t Pay Me No Mind.”
Tracklist
- 1 Over The Hills to the Poorhouse 3:13
- 2 'Tis Sweet to Be Remembered 2:56
- 3 When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again alt version 2:29
- 4 There’s More Pretty Girls Than One alt version 2:36
- 5 I’ll Go Stepping Too alt version 2:53
- 6 The Girl I Love Don’t Pay Me No Mind alt version 2:31
- 7 Ain’t Nobody Gonna Miss Me When I’m Gone alt version 2:43
- 8 I'm a Stranger In This World 2:43
- 9 Blue Ridge Cabin Home alt version 3:11
- 10 Waiting for the Boys to Come Home 2:16
