Peter Rowan - Best of the Sugar Hill Years

Title: Best of the Sugar Hill Years Artist: Peter Rowan Release Date: 7/10/2007 Label: Sugar Hill Records Album Type(s): Greatest Hits UPC: 015891403526 Genre: Folk Styles: Progressive Bluegrass, Traditional Bluegrass, New Acoustic, Bluegrass, Contemporary Folk, Contemporary Bluegrass Moods: Amiable/Good-Natured, Earnest, Organic, Plaintive, Rollicking, Laid-Back/Mellow Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 1 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. That High Lonesome Sound
2. A Jealous Heart and a Worried Mind
3. Walls of Time
4. Dust Bowl Children
5. Girl in the Blue Velvet Band
6. All on a Rising Day
7. Hiroshima Mon Amour
8. Rainmaker
9. The First Whippoorwill
10. You Taught Me How to Lose
11. Memories of You
12. Last Train
13. Howlin' at the Moon
14. Wild Geese Cry Again
15. Meadow Green

Year Type Label Catalog # 2007 CD Sugar Hill Records 4035

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Peter Rowan fills an important role in bluegrass evolution, serving as one of the key links between the older and newer styles that came to a head with the newgrass movement in the early to mid-'70s. Rowan was a member of the renowned West Coast bluegrass outfit Old & In the Way during that time, and wrote classic songs like "Panama Red" and "Midnight Moonlight." Rowan's talent lay in keeping a stylistic foot in each camp, delivering vocal flourishes as distinct as Bill Monroe's while veering toward a more progressive acoustic sound. Best of the Sugar Hill Years covers Rowan's career between 1982 and 1996, a productive period of time resulting in solo projects like 1990's Dust Bowl Children and 1996's Yonder, a collaboration with Jerry Douglas. The 15 songs included on this collection, most of them written by Rowan, are incredibly consistent. First, there's the quality of the material, highlighted by songs like "Rainmaker" and "Hiroshima Mon Amour," and next there's the acoustic base from which the arrangements are drawn. Rowan recorded a lot of material for Sugar Hill, and obviously a 15-song collection only touches on a small portion of his work with the label. Best of the Sugar Hill Years is nonetheless a good survey of Rowan's work from this time period, and a good general introduction to a pivotal newgrass performer. ~ Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr., All Music Guide

Name Credits Alan O'Bryant Guitar, Banjo, Tenor (Vocal), Vocals Andy Statman Mandolin Bil VornDick Producer Bill Keith Banjo Buddy Spicher Fiddle Buell Neidlinger Bass (Upright) Charles Sawtelle Guitar Craig Havighurst Liner Notes David Glasser Remastering Hiroshi Asada Producer Jerry Douglas Vocals, Weissenborn, Arranger, Dobro, Producer, Guitar Jim Rooney Assistant Producer, Producer Laurie K. Lewis Vocal Harmony Mark Hembree Bass (Vocal), Bass (Acoustic) Maura O'Connell Vocal Harmony Mike Compton Mandola, Baritone (Vocal), Mandolin Mike Munford Banjo Pat Enright Tenor (Vocal), Guitar Peter Rowan Mandolin, Guitar, Vocals, Mandola, Arranger, Guitar (Rhythm), Producer Richard Greene & Beryl Marriott Producer, Fiddle, Bass (Vocal) Ricky Skaggs Tenor (Vocal), Mandolin, Mandola, Baritone (Vocal) Roger Mason Bass Roy Huskey Jr. Bass (Upright), Bass Sam Bush Fiddle, Mandolin, Baritone (Vocal), Vocals Stephen Brower Compilation Producer Stuart Duncan Fiddle, Guitar (Tenor) Sue Meyer Design Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill Clavinet