Scenic Roots, released by Sugar Hill Records in 1990, is the last Seldom Scene album to feature the band's founder John Duffey on mandolin and high tenor — Duffey would die in 1996, and the album closes the second-generation Seldom Scene chapter that had begun with A Change of Scenery two years earlier. The lineup brings Duffey together with the post-classic players who had succeeded the band's founders. The program retains the harmony singing and progressive song choices the band had been defining since the 1970s. As a final document of John Duffey at the center of the group he had co-founded in 1971, the album holds a particular place in the Seldom Scene's working catalog.
Tracklist
- 1 If you ever change your mind 2:07
- 2 Lost in a memory 3:41
- 3 The wrath of God 2:34
- 4 Before I Met You alt version 2:27
- 5 Red Georgia clay 2:25
- 6 I've cried my last tear over you 2:57
- 7 Not in my arms 2:24
- 8 Highway of heartache 3:17
- 9 The Long Black Veil alt version 3:02
- 10 Last call to glory 2:38
- 11 Distant train 2:24
- 12 How Mountain Girls Can Love alt version 2:06
