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Brint Hannay
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Maryland, USA
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Posted 19 Jan 2006 1:09 pm |
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New member here. (Didn’t have a computer till 6 months ago!)
I wondered if anyone could clear up some confusion regarding the track listing for the album “Green Country” by Lloyd Green. I have a vinyl copy from Tom Bradshaw’s “Steel Guitar Vintage Classics” series (Number 16), and there are several differences in the track list from the tape offered by the Forum. The Bradshaw LP reproduces the original album cover of the Little Darlin’ “Green Country” LP, with “Home Country”, “Strangers”, and “Seven Days of Crying” in the listing, front and back. Those three songs are not listed on the tape. The tape has “The Cave” and “The Dying Herd”, which are not on the LP. I’ve not seen “The Dying Herd” in any other track listing for any Lloyd Green recording. Is this an alternate title for “Home Country”, a simple but beautiful tune on the LP? Adding to the confusion, the track list on Rhapsody (the internet music site) for the CD “Master of the Steel Strings” includes the title “Home Country”, but click on it and you get “Rainbows and Roses”--the tune from the LP is nowhere among the selections you can play from the site (and the entire track list is completely scrambled, totally botched—only one tune has its right title, and the list includes “the Ballad of the Green Beret” and “Star Spangled Banner”!!!!). The Forum lists the CD tracks correctly, at least as they appear on my copy of the CD, and it doesn’t list or contain “Home Country”! Where did Rhapsody get the title??? (For that matter, where’d they get those other two???!!) Why is “Home Country” so hard to find? Hmm, almost sounds like a philosophical question…
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Walter Stettner
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Vienna, Austria
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Posted 19 Jan 2006 2:36 pm
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Brint,
You can find all solo albums plus cover scans of the original Lloyd Green instrumental albums on the website www.lloydgreentribute.com (in the "Recordings" section). Listed are the original albums, several of them were re-issued on different labels later, sometimes with tracks omitted.
The "Master Of The Steel Strings" CD has tracks from three different albums, plus the instrumental version of "The Cave" (which was done vocally by Paycheck for Little Darlin' also). The instrumental version is not a Lloyd Green solo recording, it was possibly recorded for another instrumental project (solo guitar), with an instrumental break of Lloyd in the middle.
Kind Regards, Walter
www.lloydgreentribute.com
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Brint Hannay
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Maryland, USA
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Posted 19 Jan 2006 8:18 pm
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Walter, thanks for the link! It seems "The Dying Herd" is a typo for "the Dying Hero" from the "Day for Decision" album, from which "Green Beret" and "Star Spangled Banner" also come. That was an album I was unaware of--perhaps Lloyd would be just as glad! I guess maybe the CD was originally planned to include those tunes. But I still wonder why "Home Country" is so neglected; I have always liked it especially, because a)it's a beautiful melody, and b) it's a Lloyd Green instrumental I can actually play! (Not like LG of course!)
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