Rambler's Blues is a 1995 Sugar Hill Records debut (SHCD-3834) by the Laurel Canyon Ramblers, a California acoustic bluegrass ensemble named, with deliberate humor, for the most Appalachian-sounding neighborhood in Los Angeles. The group — Herb Pedersen (banjo, vocals), Bill Bryson (bass, vocals), Billy Ray Latham (guitar, vocals), and Kenny Blackwell (mandolin, vocals) — brought together veterans of the California roots scene: Pedersen and Bryson had anchored the Desert Rose Band alongside Chris Hillman; Latham had worked with the Kentucky Colonels. The album eschews drums, presenting original material alongside Osborne Brothers covers and bluegrass gospel in the unadorned string-band style all four members had roots in long before their country-rock years — a homecoming to acoustic music they had always loved.
Tracklist
- 1 Rambler's Blues 2:48
- 2 Crossroads Bar 2:46
- 3 To A Heart Always True 3:17
- 4 This Heart of Mine alt version 2:21
- 5 Yellowhead 2:10
- 6 He Said If I Be Lifted Up alt version 3:03
- 7 She S No Angel 2:38
- 8 Jordan 2:49
- 9 Love Reunited 2:49
- 10 Flatland Ramble 4:13
- 11 Jesus Savior, Pilot Me 2:42
- 12 Roll On 2:41