Journey Home

~ Release by Bill Staines (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Tracklist

1CD
#TitleRatingLength
1Rompin' Rovin' Days3:14
2Stewball
additional guitar:
Bill Staines
bass:
Mike Walsh (Bass player)
electric guitar, mandolin and resonator guitar [dobro]:
John Curtis (worked with Bill Staines)
guitar:
Brian Wood
membranophone:
Stingy Lapel
piano:
Larry Luddecke
violin:
Stuart Schulman
vocals:
Bill Staines
recording of:
Stew Ball
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
3:36
3Journey Home4:13
4Hobo's Lullaby4:29
5Bound for the Promised Land3:08
6A Rancher Turns 80 / The Years4:34
7The Piney Wood Hills3:08
8Love Was Easy4:15
9The Philosopher's Song3:11
10Tell Ol' Bill
guitar:
Bill Staines
vocals:
Bill Staines
recording of:
Tell Old Bill (Traditional blues ballad)
publisher:
Robert Gordon (publisher) (in 1923), Carl Sandburg (in 1927), Alan Lomax (US ethnomusicologist) (in 1934) and John A. Lomax (in 1934)
writer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
2:51
11Prairie in the Sky
bass:
Mike Walsh (Bass player)
electric guitar:
Guy Van Duser
guitar:
Bill Staines and Guy Van Duser
keyboard:
Bill Staines
mandolin and resonator guitar [dobro]:
John Curtis (worked with Bill Staines)
soprano saxophone:
Billy Novick
vocals:
Bill Staines
recording of:
Prairie in the Sky
lyricist, writer and composer:
Mary McCaslin (folksinger)
4:10
12Pretty Saro
additional guitar:
Bill Staines
guitar:
Guy Van Duser
vocals:
Bill Staines
recording of:
Pretty Saro
writer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 417)
3:04
13How Can I Keep From Singing
guitar and keyboard:
Bill Staines
whistle:
Billy Novick
vocals:
Bill Staines
recording of:
How Can I Keep From Singing?
writer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
composer:
Robert Lowry (American hymn writer, 1826-1899)
3:49

Credits

Release

photography:Michael Johnson (photographer)
Bowen Staines
mixer and recording engineer:Larry Luddecke
graphic design:Eric Peltoniemi
co-producer:Larry Luddecke
executive producer:Eric Peltoniemi
producer:Bill Staines
recorded at:Straight Up Music in Arlington, Massachusetts, United States