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Track listing

# "Lonesome and a Long Way from Home" ( Delaney Bramlett, Leon Russell) – 5:16 # "With Care from Someone" ( Gene Clark,

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) – 8:05 # "High Lonesome Sound" (

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) – 4:04 # "Rainbow Bridge" (Curtis Burch) – 3:39 # "Watermelon Man" (Willis Ramsey) – 4:31 # "Fly Through the Country" (

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) – 8:58 # "Red Man Blues" (

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, Courtney Johnson) – 9:47

Personnel

- mandolin, slide mandolin, fiddle,

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, electric mandolin, lead vocals * John Cowan -

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, lead vocals * Courtney Johnson - banjo, vocals * Curtis Burch - guitar, Dobro, vocals

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Personnel

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