''Like We Used to Be'' is an album by the
progressive bluegrass
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Maryland
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band
The Seldom Scene
The Seldom Scene is an American bluegrass band that formed in 1971 in Bethesda, Maryland. The band's original line-up comprised John Starling on lead vocals and guitar, Mike Auldridge on Dobro and baritone vocals, Ben Eldridge on banjo, Tom Gra ...
It's a group reunion with their original singer/guitarist, John Starling. He recorded only this album and decided to continue concentrating on his career as ear, nose & throat physician.
Album info on www.sugarhillrecords.com
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Track listing
# Grandpa Get Your Guitar (McCullough, Jim Rushing) 02:54
# Let Me Be Your Friend (Carter Stanley
Carter Glen Stanley (August 27, 1925 – December 1, 1966) was a bluegrass music lead singer, songwriter, and rhythm guitar player. He formed The Stanley Brothers and The Clinch Mountain Boys band with his younger brother Ralph Stanley.
Biog ...
) 02:45
# Like I Used to Do (Pat Alger
Pat Alger (born September 23, 1947, in LaGrange, GeorgiaCarlin 2003, p. 3.) is a country music songwriter, singer and guitarist and a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame (2010) and the Georgia Music Hall of Fame (2013).
Early ...
, Tim O'Brien) 04:06
# Highway of Pain (Dauphin) 03:46
# Cheap Whiskey (Emory Gordy Jr., Jim Rushing) 03:46
# Philadelphia Lawyer
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(Woody Guthrie
Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (; July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) was an American singer-songwriter, one of the most significant figures in American folk music. His work focused on themes of American socialism and anti-fascism. He has inspired ...
) 03:26
# Almost Threw Your Love Away (Germino, Hylton) 03:56
# The Other Side of Town (Clark, Williams, Williams) 02:59
# She's More to Be Pitied (Rakes) 03:01
# Heaven's Green Fields (Jim Rushing, Shamblin) 02:49
# I've Come to Take You Home (Coleman, Duffey) 03:09
# I'll Remember You Love in My Prayers (Hayes) 03:04
# Some Morning Soon (Lynch, Lynch) 03:36
Personnel
* John Starling - vocals, guitar
* John Duffey
John Humbird Duffey Jr. (March 4, 1934 – December 10, 1996) was a Washington D.C. based bluegrass musician.
Duffey was born in Washington, D.C., and lived nearly all his life in the Washington D.C. area. He graduated from Bethesda-Chevy Cha ...
- mandolin, vocals
* Ben Eldridge Ben Eldridge, (born August 15, 1938) is a five-string banjo player and a founding member of the seminal bluegrass group The Seldom Scene. He also works as a mathematician.
Biography
Ben Eldridge was born in Richmond, Virginia. He began playing t ...
- banjo, guitar, vocals
* Mike Auldridge
Mike Auldridge (December 30, 1938 – December 29, 2012) was an American Dobro player and a founding member of the bluegrass group The Seldom Scene. The ''New York Times'' described Auldridge as "one of the most distinctive dobro players in the ...
- Dobro, guitar, vocals
* T. Michael Coleman - bass, vocals
with Pat McInerney - percussion, drums
References
External links
Official site
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1994 albums
The Seldom Scene albums
Sugar Hill Records albums