Some Rust...Runs Good
Vermont Songbag (VSB 103) 2000

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4 Sale:
1972 model bluegrass band. Vermont plates, original engine and drive train, some new parts. High mileage, inspected. Some rust, runs good.

Alan Davis, guitar
Jon Henry Drake, bass
David Gusakov, fiddle
Dan Lindner, banjo, guitar
Willy Lindner, mandolin, guitar

1. Cold Wind - 2:07 - Roy McMillan, additional words by Dan Lindner [Lead vocal, Dan]
2. Stagolee - 3:26 - Traditional, adapted and arranged Banjo Dan and the Mid-nite Plowboys [Lead vocal, Jon]
3. Black Ice, Brass Moon, Blue Heart - 3:44 - Alan Davis, Vermont Songbag, BMI [Lead vocal, Al]
4. Miserlou - 3:36 - Traditional, adapted and arranged Banjo Dan and the Mid-nite Plowboys
5. Elizabeth - 3:27 - Jimmy Fortune [Lead vocal, Jon]
6. Last Night I Dreamed of Loving You - 3:39 Hugh Moffat / Gray Mouse, Atlantic Music Corp. BMI [Vocals, Al and Jon, lead guitar, Willy]
7. C'est La Vie - 3:38 - Al Rapone, Neil Music, ASCAP; La Bonne Musique, BMI [Lead vocal, Willy]
8. Aremel - 4:21 - Eric (Willy) Lindner, Vermont Songbag, BMI [Clarinet, Kathy Light; lead guitar, Dan]
9. Back When the Old Folks Were Young - 2:41 - Dan Lindner, Vermont Songbag, BMI [Lead vocal, Dan]
10. Taking that Ride - 2:46 - Alan Davis, Vermont Songbag, BMI [Lead vocal, Al]
11. Yearning - 2:56 - Benny Carter and Joseph Burke, Music Sales Corp./ Bourne Co. ASCAP [Lead vocal, David]
12. Thoughts of You - 2:49 - Eric (Willy) Lindner, Vermont Songbag, BMI [Lead vocal, Willy]
13. Brush and Vines - 3:39 - Eric (Willy Lindner, Vermont Songbag, BMI [Lead vocal, Jon]
14. Logging Man - 1:50 - Del McCoury, Midstream Music, BMI [Lead vocal, Jon]
15. Blackbird - 2:16 - Alan Davis, Vermont Songbag, BMI [Vocal, Al]

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Check Eller and Lane Gibson at Charles Eller Studios, Charlotte, Vermont, April - May 2000

Produced by Alan Davis, Dan Lindner, and Willy Lindner

Design by Tim Newcomb

Cover photo by Jim Howe, courtesy of Hemmings Motor News

Other photos by Jeb Wallace-Brodeur

We want to express thanks to our families and to Jason Bergman, Kathy Light, Chuck Eller, Lane Gibson and the Beach Boys for their contributions, direct and indirect, to this album. And to Joe Val, Don Stover and Everett and Bea Lilly for stoking the fires of New England bluegrass, brilliantly, in the early going.

Next album in discography: The Catamount is Back