''High Lonesome'' is the eighth studio album by

Charlie Daniels Charles Edward Daniels (October 28, 1936 – July 6, 2020) was an American singer, musician, and songwriter. His music fused rock, country, blues and jazz, pioneering Southern rock. He was best known for his number-one country hit "The Dev ...

and the fifth as

the Charlie Daniels Band Charles Edward Daniels (October 28, 1936 – July 6, 2020) was an American singer, musician, and songwriter. His music fused rock, country, blues and jazz, pioneering Southern rock. He was best known for his number-one country hit "The Dev ...

, released on November 5, 1976. Many of the tracks pay homage to pulp

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and, with permission, the album's title was named after the 1962 Western novel by

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Track listing

All songs composed by the Charlie Daniels Band (

, Tom Crain, Taz DiGregorio, Fred Edwards, Charles Hayward & Don Murray), except where indicated:

Side one

# "Billy the Kid" (Daniels) – 5:49 # "Carolina" – 3:54 # "High Lonesome" – 5:03 # "Running With the Crowd" – 4:01

Side two

# "Right Now Tennessee Blues" (Daniels) – 3:36 # "Roll Mississippi" – 3:12 # "Slow Song" (Daniels) – 3:55 # "Tennessee" (Crain) – 4:43 # "Turned My Head Around" – 3:52 All of the credits above are direct from the original 1976 Epic LP. There has been some confusion as to certain of the album's songwriting credits over time because sites like

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have incorrectly modified the credits by incorporating songs with the same titles together. For example, "Billy the Kid". "Dean" is shown as a co-writer sometimes now because

Billy Dean William Harold Dean Jr. (born April 2, 1962) is an American country music singer and songwriter. He first gained national attention after appearing on the television talent competition ''Star Search''. Active as a recording artist since 1990, h ...

released a song with the same title in 1991. Another example is "High Lonesome", which was written by the Charlie Daniels Band. Allmusic now incorrectly cites

Gretchen Peters Gretchen Peters (born November 14, 1957) is an American singer and songwriter. She was born in New York, where she wrote her first song with her sister at the age of 5. In 1970, her parents broke up, and Peters moved with her mother to Boulder, ...

as a co-writer. This is because she wrote a song called "High Lonesome" in 1991 for

Randy Travis Randy Bruce Traywick (born May 4, 1959), known professionally as Randy Travis, is an American country music and gospel music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor. Active from 1978 until being incapacitated by a stroke in 2013, he has recor ...

's album, '' High Lonesome''. Yet another case is with the song "Birmingham Blues" that Charlie Daniels wrote for their 1975 album, '' Nightrider''. In 1977,

Jeff Lynne Jeffrey Lynne (born 30 December 1947) is an English musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as the co-founder of the rock music, rock band Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), which was formed in 1970. As a songwriter, h ...

also wrote a song called "Birmingham Blues" for his band,

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's album, '' Out of the Blue'', and now Allmusic shows the 1975 Charlie Daniels song as being co-written by Lynne (but not the other way around), which is nonsensical. But once one authoritative site publishes incorrect data, the scrapers spread it around the internet as factual.

Personnel

The Charlie Daniels Band: *

– acoustic guitar, banjo, fiddle, guitar, violin, electric guitar, vocals, slide guitar * Tom Crain – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals, slide guitar, vocal harmony, lead vocals on "Tennessee" * Taz DiGregorio – organ, piano, keyboards, vocals, vocal harmony, lead vocals on "Roll Mississippi" * Fred Edwards – congas,

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* Charlie Hayward –

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* Don Murray – congas, drums Additional musicians: * George McCorkle – acoustic guitar on "Billy The Kid" *

Toy Caldwell Toy Talmadge Caldwell Jr. (November 13, 1947 – February 25, 1993) was the lead guitarist and main songwriter of the 1970s Southern Rock group The Marshall Tucker Band.

–

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on "Slow Song" and "Tennessee" Production personnel: *

Paul Hornsby Paul Hornsby is an American musician and record producer who has produced gold and platinum records for artists including the Charlie Daniels Band, The Marshall Tucker Band, and Wet Willie. Overview Paul Hornsby started playing music at an early ...

– producer * Kurt Kinzel – engineer * Richard Schoff – assistant engineer * Don Rubin – executive producer *

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– mastering * Joseph E. Sullivan – production supervisor

Charts

References

{{Authority control 1976 albums Charlie Daniels albums Albums produced by Paul Hornsby Epic Records albums