''Native American'' is an album by the American
guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...
ist
Tony Rice, released in 1988.
Track listing
# "Shadows" (
Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. (born November 17, 1938) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music. He is credited with helping to define the folk-pop sound of the 1960 ...
) – 3:43
# "St. James Hospital" (James Baker) – 4:59
# "Night Flyer" (
John Mayall
John Mayall, OBE (born 29 November 1933) is an English blues singer, musician and songwriter, whose musical career spans over sixty years. In the 1960s, he was the founder of John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, a band that has counted among its ...
) – 4:00
# "Why Have You Been Gone So Long" (
Mickey Newbury
Milton Sims "Mickey" Newbury Jr. (May 19, 1940 – September 29, 2002) was an American songwriter, recording artist, and a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Early life and career
Newbury was born in Houston, Texas, on May 19, ...
) – 3:22
# "Urge for Going" (
Joni Mitchell
Roberta Joan "Joni" Mitchell ( Anderson; born November 7, 1943) is a Canadian-American musician, producer, and painter. Among the most influential singer-songwriters to emerge from the 1960s folk music circuit, Mitchell became known for her st ...
) – 5:51
# "Go My Way" (Lightfoot) – 2:48
# "Nothin' Like a Hundred Miles" (
James Taylor
James Vernon Taylor (born March 12, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A six-time Grammy Award winner, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, hav ...
) – 4:21
# "Changes" (
Phil Ochs
Philip David Ochs (; December 19, 1940 – April 9, 1976) was an American songwriter and protest singer (or, as he preferred, a topical singer). Ochs was known for his sharp wit, sardonic humor, political activism, often alliterative lyrics, an ...
) – 2:21
# "Brother to the Wind" (Craig Bickhardt, F.C. Collins) – 3:28
# "John Wilkes Booth" (
Mary Chapin Carpenter) – 3:52
# "Summer Wages" (
Ian Tyson) – 4:03
Personnel
*
Tony Rice – guitar, vocals
*
Vassar Clements
Vassar Carlton Clements (April 25, 1928 – August 16, 2005) was an American jazz, swing, and bluegrass fiddler. Clements has been dubbed the Father of Hillbilly Jazz, an improvisational style that blends and borrows from swing, hot jazz, and ...
– fiddle
*
Jerry Douglas – dobro
* Robbie Magruder – drums
*
Mark Schatz – bass
* Rico Petrucelli – bass
*
Wyatt Rice – guitar
* John Jennings – guitar
* John Edwards – harmonica, background vocals
*
Jimmy Gaudreau – mandolin
*
Mary Chapin Carpenter – harmony vocals, background vocals
* Jon Carroll – piano, keyboards, background vocals
;Production notes
* Tony Rice – producer
* John Jennings – producer
* Bill Wolf – producer, engineer, mixing
* Joanna Bodenweber – design
* Mark Farris – photography
References
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1988 albums
Tony Rice albums
Rounder Records albums