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Lucky Day (Jonathan Edwards album)

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Lucky Day
File:Lucky day front.jpg
Live album by
Released1974
RecordedMarch 22 and 23, 1974
GenreCountry folk
LabelAtco
ProducerJonathan Edwards
Peter Casperson
Jonathan Edwards chronology
Have a Good Time for Me
(1973)
Lucky Day
(1974)
Rockin' Chair
(1976)

Lucky Day is the first live album (fourth overall) released by the singer-songwriter Jonathan Edwards. It was recorded on March 22 and 23, 1974, at the Performance Center in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts with Orphan as his backing band. Half of the tracks are cover versions and half are originals.

The medley of "You Are My Sunshine" and Edwards' own "Sunshine" included the lyrics "But Nixon got cards he ain't showing" instead of the original lyrics "But he's got cards he ain't showing".

Track listing

All tracks composed by Jonathan Edwards; except where indicated

  1. "Give Us a Song" – 2:55
  2. "Don't Cry Blue" (Malcolm McKinney) – 2:34
  3. "Nova Scotia" (Carolyn Dall) – 3:38
  4. "Today I Started Loving You Again" (Merle Haggard) – 4:26
  5. "Shanty" – 2:45
  6. "Have You Seen Her" (Barbara Acklin, Eugene Record) – 3:09
  7. "Everybody Knows Her" – 1:45
  8. "Lucky Day" – 2:49
  9. "Sometimes" (Malcolm McKinney) – 2:58
  10. "Hit Parade of Love" (Jimmy Martin, Wade Birchfield) – 2:48
  11. "Stop and Start It All Again" – 3:09
  12. "My Home Ain't in the Hall of Fame" (Joe Dolce) – 3:41
  13. "That's What Our Life Is" – 2:52
  14. "You Are My Sunshine/Sunshine (Go Away Today)" (Charles Mitchell, Jimmie Davis/Edwards) – 3:16

Performance credits

  • Jonathan Edwards – guitar, harmonica, vocals, bass guitar, acoustic guitar, harp
  • Bill Keith – banjo, steel guitar, pedal steel guitar
  • Al Anderson – guitar, electric guitar
  • John Edwards – bass guitar, guitar, harmonica, vocals
  • Dean Adrian – percussion
  • Bobby Chouinard – drums
  • David Conrad – bass guitar
  • Lynnie Edwards – vocals
  • Bill Elliott – keyboards
  • Eric Lillequist – guitar, vocals
  • Stuart Schulman – bass guitar, violin, keyboards, piano
  • Bill Elliot – piano
  • Eric Lilljequist – electric guitar, vocals
  • Dean Adrien – tambourine, vocals
  • Lynnie Dall – backing vocals on "Nova Scotia"