Dream Scene

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Dream Scene
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Studio album by The Seldom Scene
Released 1996
Recorded 1996
Genre Bluegrass, progressive bluegrass
Label Sugar Hill
Producer The Seldom Scene
The Seldom Scene chronology
Like We Used to Be
(1994)		Dream Scene
(1996)		 Scene It All
(2000)
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Dream Scene is an album by the progressive bluegrass Maryland band The Seldom Scene. There were several personnel changes in the group after the unsuccessful comeback with John Starling. Mike Auldridge, Moondi Klein, and T. Michael Coleman left the group to form progressive band Chesapeake. Duffey and Eldridge recruited guitarist/singer Dudley Connell, dobroist Fred Travers and bass player Ronnie Simpkins to continue with the group. This album would be the last for John Duffey who died late in 1996. [2] [3]

Maryland State of the United States of America

Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east. The state's largest city is Baltimore, and its capital is Annapolis. Among its occasional nicknames are Old Line State, the Free State, and the Chesapeake Bay State. It is named after the English queen Henrietta Maria, known in England as Queen Mary.

The Seldom Scene American bluegrass band

The Seldom Scene is an American bluegrass band formed in 1971 in Bethesda, Maryland.

John Starling is an American Bluegrass musician and composer, and a founding member of the bluegrass group The Seldom Scene. He also had a medical profession as an otolaryngologist.

Contents

Track listing

  1. Dry Run Creek (McPeak) 2:34
  2. Going up on the Mountain (Gamble, Huff) 3:17
  3. Willie Roy (Williams) 4:40
  4. Tulsa Chili Bop (Pennington) 3:09
  5. When I Get My Rewards (Kennerley) 3:40
  6. They're at Rest Together (Traditional) 2:59
  7. The Boatman (Hylton) 3:33
  8. Love of the Mountains (Mills) 2:46
  9. Little Sparrow (Fair Tender Ladies) (Traditional) 5:21
  10. The Shape I'm In (Connell) 3:45
  11. Blue Diamond (Ritchie) 5:15
  12. Bad Moon Rising (Fogerty) 2:21

Personnel

John Humbird Duffey, Jr. was a Washington D.C. based bluegrass musician.

Ben Eldridge, is a five-string banjo player and a founding member of the seminal bluegrass group The Seldom Scene. He also works as a mathematician.

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References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Album review on www.allmusic.com
  3. ↑ Album info on www.sugarhillrecords.com Archived October 3, 2009, at the Wayback Machine .


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