The Best of the Stony Plain Years
Appearance
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Released | 17 June 2014 | |||
Recorded | 1988-2001 | |||
Genre | Blues | |||
Length | 45:00 | |||
Label | Stony Plain Records | |||
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The Best of the Stony Plain Years is a compilation album by Long John Baldry. Released on 17 June 2014 in North America, and the rest of the world on 23 June, it collects LJB's best work with the Stony Plain Records label. The album features a previously unreleased live version of "Dimples" and other rarities.
Track listing
- "Good Morning Blues" – 3:48 (From Remembering Leadbelly, recorded in 1958 & 2001)
- "I'm Shakin'" – 3:48 (From Right to Sing the Blues, recorded in 1996)
- "Easy Street" – 3:49 (From Right to Sing the Blues, recorded in 1996)
- "Midnight Special" – 3:22 (From Remembering Leadbelly, recorded in 2001)
- "Gallows Pole" – 2:44 (From Remembering Leadbelly, recorded in 2001)
- "Midnight Hour Blues" – 3:58 (From Right to Sing the Blues, recorded in 1996)
- "Dimples" – 3:58 (Previously unreleased, recorded in 1988)
- "Insane Asylum" – 5:24 (From It Still Ain't Easy, recorded in 1991)
- "Midnight In New Orleans" – 3:23 (From It Still Ain't Easy, recorded in 1991)
- "Black Girl" – 3:01 (From Stony Plain: Absolute Blues 2, recorded in 1996)
- "Time's Gettin' Tougher Than Tough" – 6:53 (From Jimmy Witherspoon with the Duke Robillard Band, recorded in 1995)
Personnel
- Long John Baldry - vocals
- Andreas Schuld - guitar
- Chris Nordquist - drums
- John Lee Sanders - piano, keyboard, tuba
- Norm Fraser - bass
- Jesse Zubot - violin
- Butch Coulter - harmonica
- Tom Colclough - clarinet
- Kathi McDonald - vocals
- Papa John King - guitar
- Al Webster - drums
- Eric Webster - keyboard, piano
- Johnny Ferreira - sax
- Dave Babcock - sax
- Rusty Reed - harp
- Mike Lent - bass
- Michelle Joseph - drums
- Tom Lavin - guitar, tambourine, vocals
- Teddy Borowiecki - piano
- Bill Runge - bass
- Darryl Bennett - drums, sax
- Amos Garrett - guitar
- Gaye Delmore - guitar
- Mike Kalanj - hammond B3
- Jimmy Witherspoon - vocals
- Duke Robillard - guitar
- Marty Ballou - bass
- Marty Richards - drums
- "Sax" Gordon Beadle - sax
- Compiled by Holger Peterson
- Produced by Tom Lavin, Miles Wilkinson, Duke Robillard, Andreas Schuld and Holger Peterson
- Re-mastering by Miles Wilkinson
- Art and design by Michael Dangelmaier, Karo Group, Calgary, AB.
- Cover photo by Richard Siemens