''Places I've Done Time'' is a studio

album An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78 rpm records co ...

by American

country music Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...

singer and songwriter

Tom T. Hall Thomas Hall (May 25, 1936 – August 20, 2021), known professionally as Tom T. Hall and informally nicknamed "the Storyteller," was an American country music singer-songwriter and short-story author. He wrote 12 No. 1 hit songs, with 26 more ...

issued by

RCA Records RCA Records is an American record label currently owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America. It is one of Sony Music's four flagship labels, alongside RCA's former long-time rival Columbia Records; also A ...

in 1978. It reached #19 in the US Country Charts and #17 in the Canadian Country Charts. Two singles from the album, " What Have You Got to Lose" and "Son of Clayton Delaney" also charted in both countries.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Tom T. Hall; except where indicated
Side 1 #" What Have You Got to Lose" #"I Couldn't Live in Southern California" #"The Grocery Truck" #"The Man Who Shot Himself" #"Son of Clayton Delaney" Side 2 #" Mr. Bojangles" (

Jerry Jeff Walker Jerry Jeff Walker (born Ronald Clyde Crosby; March 16, 1942 – October 23, 2020) was an American country music and folk singer-songwriter. He was a leading figure in the progressive country and outlaw country music movement. He was bes ...

) #"The Three Sofa Story" #"The Great East Broadway Onion Championship of 1978" #"Hat Full of Feathers" (Glen Ray) #"Gimme Peace" (Hillman Hall)

Musicians

Harold Bradley Harold Ray Bradley (January 2, 1926 – January 31, 2019) was an American guitarist and entrepreneur, who played on many country, rock and pop recordings and produced numerous TV variety shows and movie soundtracks. Having started as a session ...

, James Marshall - bass guitar *

Henry Strzelecki Henry Pershing Strzelecki (August 8, 1939 – December 30, 2014) was a Nashville studio musician who performed with Roy Orbison, Chet Atkins, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Eddy Arnold, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Ronnie Milsap, Merle Haggard, and ...

, Floyd Chance - bass *Harold Bradley - banjo *Hayward Bishop - drums *

Bobby Wood Bobby Shou Wood (born November 15, 1992) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a striker for Major League Soccer club New England Revolution. Youth and early career Wood was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to a mother with partial ...

- piano *Bill Wence - electric piano *

Ray Edenton Ray Quarles Edenton (November 3, 1926 – September 21, 2022) was an American guitar player and country music session musician. Early life Ray Edenton was born into a musical family on November 3, 1926, and grew up near Mineral, Virginia. His f ...

, Jerry Shook, Gary Lusk, Charles Stewart, Chip Young - rhythm guitar *Rick Money - acoustic guitar *Murrel Counts - fiddle *Dale Sellers - electric guitar, acoustic dobro *James Edwards - slide dobro, mandolin *Sheldon Kurland, Virginia Christensen, Carl Goradetzky, Wilfred Lehman, Stephen Smith, Samuel Terranova, Pamela Vonasdale, Stephanie Woolf - violin *Marvin Chantry, Gary Vanosdale - viola *Byron Bach, Roy Christensen - cello *Cam Mullins - string arrangements *Lea Jane Berinati, Yvonne Hodges, Sherilyn Kramer - backing vocals

Production

*Producers: Ken Nelson & Fuzzy OwenOriginal album sleeve notes *Recording Engineer: Al Pachuki *Assistant Engineer: Stan Beavers *Mastering Engineer: Randy Kling *Recorded at the Toy Box, Brentwood, Tennessee *Front album cover photo: Hope Powell *Back album cover montage: Joe Horton *Album art direction: Mary Lancaster, Pinwheel Studios

References

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