''Midnight Moonlight'' is the thirteenth studio

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, released in 1992 on the Relix Records label. ''Midnight Moonlight'' features studio recordings of original and cover songs, performed in a style heavily influenced by bluegrass and American folk music. The instrumentation is largely acoustic, with no

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. This is in contrast to most earlier New Riders albums, which emphasized electric

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Track listing

#"Midnight Moonlight" ( Peter Rowan) – (4:10) #"Sutter's Mill" ( John Dawson) – (3:25) #"Charlie's Garden" (Dawson) – (3:23) #"All I Remember" (Eric Moll, Karren Pell) – (3:23) #"Louisiana Lady" (Dawson) – (4:30) #" Ballad of the Deportees" (

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) – (3:23) #"Taking It Hard" (Joe New) – (4:26) #"Glendale Train" (Dawson) – (5:09) #"Change in the Weather" (Dawson) – (4:09) #"Diesel on My Tail" (Jim Fagan) – (3:05) #"Lonesome L.A. Cowboy" (Rowan) – (8:37)

Personnel

New Riders of the Purple Sage

* John Dawson –

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* Rusty Gauthier – acoustic guitar,

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, dumbek, vocals * Gary Vogensen –

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, vocals * Fred Campbell –

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, acoustic guitar

Additional musicians

*Keith Allen – acoustic guitar, slide guitar, vocals *

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*Carolyn Gauthier – vocals *Bill Laymon – acoustic bass guitar *Evan Morgan – acoustic guitar * David Nelson – mandolin, acoustic guitar *John Pedersen – banjo, uilleann pipes *Kevin Wimmer – fiddle,

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Production

*Rusty Gauthier, John Dawson – producers *Rusty Gauthier – recording and mixing

Notes

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