Wanderin', the Osborne Brothers' 1969 Decca release, comes from the band's most commercially confident period — the immediate wake of Rocky Top's 1968 chart success — when the brothers were leaning into the country-radio production they had been building toward for several years. Bobby Osborne's high lead carries the program, set against the polished Nashville session arrangements that had drawn purist complaints in equal measure to its country traction. The repertoire mixed mainstream country material with reworkings of bluegrass standards, all delivered through the high-trio harmony the band had made its signature. It belongs to a stretch of Decca albums that defined the Osborne Brothers' standing as the most commercially successful bluegrass act of the late 1960s.
Tracklist
- 1 John Henry alt version 3:12
- 2 Ranger's command 3:21
- 3 Burglar man 1:12
- 4 The Prisoner’s Song alt version 2:19
- 5 Jimmie Brown the Newsboy alt version 3:20
- 6 Happy days 1:30
- 7 The Storms are on the Ocean alt version 2:51
- 8 Remember me 2:38
- 9 Wildwood Flower alt version 4:26
- 10 My mother 2:58
- 11 Little girl dressed in blue 1:58
- 12 East Virginia Blues alt version 2:35
- 13 Wanderin'