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Tennessee 1949

Bill Emerson and Pete Goble

Album · 1986 · Webco WLPS 0123

Tennessee 1949 (Webco WLPS 0123) teams banjo player Bill Emerson with singer, guitarist and songwriter Pete Goble. It was recorded at Webco Studio in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and released in 1987. Goble sings lead on every vocal track, Emerson sings baritone, and Larry Stephenson plays mandolin and sings tenor on four of the songs. Jeff Tuttle plays mandolin on six of the remaining seven, with Jimmy Gaudreau on the instrumental “The Grey Ghost.” Joe Meadows is on fiddle, Bryan Smith on bass and Mike Auldridge on dobro. Emerson, Goble and Smith are credited as producers.

Seven of the eleven tracks, the title song among them, are Goble songs written with Leroy Drumm. The other four are Emerson’s own: the instrumentals “Hoe Kicker,” “Curly Maple” (written with Goble) and “The Grey Ghost,” plus “You Can Run (But You Can’t Hide),” written with Meadows.

Emerson had helped form the Country Gentlemen in 1957 and rejoined them in 1969; in 1973 he enlisted in the Navy and spent twenty years in its Country Current ensemble. Webco was a bluegrass label based in Vienna, Virginia, and Emerson was its A&R director from 1985 to 1988. He and Goble made two albums together for it, Tennessee 1949 and, in 1989, Dixie in My Eye.

Tracklist

  1. 1 Country Life Looks Better (To Me Now) 2:37
  2. 2 Tennessee 1949 alt version 3:36
  3. 3 Back to Hancock County 3:18
  4. 4 Dixie in My Eye 3:29
  5. 5 The Old Man and the Kid 3:35
  6. 6 Many Hills of Time 4:03
  7. 7 I'm Only a Phone Call Away 2:48
  8. 8 Blue Virginia Blues alt version 3:37
  9. 9 Leavin' You and Mobile (Too) 2:48
  10. 10 Coleen Malone 2:47
  11. 11 You Can Keep Your Nine Pound Hammer alt version 2:41
  12. 12 Julianne 3:17
  13. 13 Back to Sugar Hill 3:54
  14. 14 My Kentucky Dream 4:09

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