Rattle & Roar is the second album by the Earls of Leicester, the band Jerry Douglas assembled in 2013 to play the music of Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys; their first album won a Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album. Rounder released it on 15 July 2016 (CD 1166100001, LP 1166100002). Douglas produced, and David Ferguson recorded and mixed it at the Butcher Shoppe in Nashville. The Bluegrass Discography dates the sessions to 15 February 2016, and Discogs gives the recording and mixing period as 15 February to 3 March.
The band is Shawn Camp on guitar and lead vocals, Charlie Cushman on banjo and guitar, Jeff White on mandolin, Jerry Douglas on Dobro, Johnny Warren on fiddle and Barry Bales on bass. Douglas sings baritone and Warren the bass vocal part, and Dan Auerbach is credited with snare drum. Thomas Goldsmith wrote the liner notes.
There are seventeen tracks. Three are instrumentals: “Steel Guitar Blues,” which has a ten-second introduction of its own, “Flint Hill Special” and “Buck Creek Gal.” The vocal numbers include “The Girl I Love Don’t Pay Me No Mind,” “Branded Wherever I Go,” “Why Did You Wander?,” “I’m Working on a Road (To Glory Land)” and “Pray for the Boys.”
Tracklist
- 1 The Train that Carried My Girl From Town alt version 2:46
- 2 Why Did You Wander alt version 2:49
- 3 All I Want Is You 3:04
- 4 Steel Guitar Blues Intro 0:10
- 5 Steel Guitar Blues 2:36
- 6 You Can Feel it in Your Soul alt version 3:02
- 7 A Faded Red Ribbon 2:49
- 8 Just Ain’t 2:15
- 9 Mother Prays Loud In Her Sleep 3:34
- 10 I’m Working on a Road (To Glory Land) alt version 3:00
- 11 Will You Be Lonesome Too alt version 3:04
- 12 Flint Hill Special alt version 2:45
- 13 What’s Good For You (Should Be Alright For Me) 2:45
- 14 The Girl I Love Don’t Pay Me No Mind Source Recording 2:50
- 15 Branded Wherever I Go Source Recording 2:33
- 16 Buck Creek Gal 1:29
- 17 Pray For The Boys 3:01
