You Can Share My Blanket (Rounder 0096) is a J.D. Crowe & the New South album recorded at Pete’s Place in Nashville. It marks a changed line-up from the band’s 1975 Rounder album (Rounder 0044), which had Tony Rice on guitar and lead vocals, Ricky Skaggs on fiddle and mandolin, Jerry Douglas on resonator guitar and Bobby Slone on bass. On this record Crowe plays banjo, including dobro banjo, and sings baritone; Glenn Lawson plays guitar and sings lead; Jimmy Gaudreau plays mandolin and sings tenor; Bobby Slone has moved to fiddle; and Randy Best plays electric bass.
Several Nashville players fill out the sound: Jack Solomon on rhythm guitar, Jeff Tweel on piano, Jim Murphy on steel guitar and dobro, Karl Himmel on drums and Charlie McCoy on harmonica. The New South is credited as producer. Of the ten songs, “Hickory Wind” is credited to Gram Parsons and Bob Buchanan; other titles include “As Tears Go By,” “Hesitating Too Long,” “Ten Miles from Natchez” and “Gypsy Woman,” the last mixed by John Nagy rather than Steve Chandler, who mixed and mastered the rest.
Tracklist
- 1 You can share my blanket 2:52
- 2 As tears go by 2:22
- 3 Hesitating too long 3:40
- 4 The hurtin' when you go 2:29
- 5 Ten miles from Natchez 4:06
- 6 Did she mention my name 2:50
- 7 Are you sad tonight 3:01
- 8 I don't know you 2:09
- 9 Hickory Wind alt version 3:38
- 10 Gypsy woman 3:37
