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Again joined by the James King Band, with Owen Saunders now featured prominently, the masterly song interpreter delivers standard, high quality bluegrass music. Rounder bills King as a mountain soul singer, touting his adept blending of honky tonk with his inherent knowledge of hardcore bluegrass tradition, which has been honed by his stringent performance schedule, particularly at festivals. The band provides traditional harmonies and classic, polished string acrobatics (check out the instrumental "Whoopin' It"). Thirty Years of Farming opens with the title track, which was written by alt-country troubador Fred Eaglesmith, and recounts a family's loss of their farm due to bank foreclosure. Describing the subsequent auctioning of its equipment and possessions and the last look they take at their former home before driving off, probably to more urban frontiers, is kept from sentimentality by the timeless nature of its subject matter. The album also features songs by Tom T. and Dixie Hall and George Jones, and closes with a song King says he learned from Hazel Dickens, the lilting, mid-tempo, Charlie Maguire-penned "Play Us a Waltz."
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James King, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Steve Chandler, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ken Irwin, Producer, Recording Producer - Joe Clark, Guitar, Upright Bass, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Fred Eaglesmith, Composer - Adam Poindexter, Banjo, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Deaton, Producer, Assistant Producer - Toby Mountain, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Kevin Prater, Guitar, Mandolin, Tenor, AssociatedPerformer - Owen Saunders, Fiddle, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2002 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
James King, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tom Hall, ComposerLyricist - Steve Chandler, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ken Irwin, Producer, Recording Producer - Dixie Hall, ComposerLyricist - Joe Clark, Guitar, Upright Bass, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Adam Poindexter, Banjo, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Deaton, Producer, Assistant Producer - Toby Mountain, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Kevin Prater, Guitar, Mandolin, Tenor, AssociatedPerformer - Owen Saunders, Fiddle, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2002 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
James King, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Steve Chandler, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ken Irwin, Producer, Recording Producer - Joe Clark, Guitar, Upright Bass, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Adam Poindexter, Banjo, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Deaton, Producer, Assistant Producer - Toby Mountain, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Kevin Prater, Guitar, Mandolin, Tenor, AssociatedPerformer - Owen Saunders, Fiddle, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - George E. "Speedy" Krise, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2002 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Mel Besher, ComposerLyricist - James King, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Billy Smith, ComposerLyricist - Steve Chandler, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ken Irwin, Producer, Recording Producer - Joe Clark, Guitar, Upright Bass, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Adam Poindexter, Banjo, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Deaton, Producer, Assistant Producer - Toby Mountain, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Kevin Prater, Guitar, Mandolin, Tenor, AssociatedPerformer - Owen Saunders, Fiddle, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2002 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
James King, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - GEORGE JONES, ComposerLyricist - Steve Chandler, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ken Irwin, Producer, Recording Producer - Joe Clark, Guitar, Upright Bass, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Bernard Spurlock, ComposerLyricist - Adam Poindexter, Banjo, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Deaton, Producer, Assistant Producer - Toby Mountain, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Kevin Prater, Guitar, Mandolin, Tenor, AssociatedPerformer - Owen Saunders, Fiddle, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2002 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
James King, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Steve Chandler, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ken Irwin, Producer, Recording Producer - Joe Clark, Guitar, Upright Bass, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Connie Gately, ComposerLyricist - John Talley-Jones, ComposerLyricist - Adam Poindexter, Banjo, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Deaton, Producer, Assistant Producer - Toby Mountain, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Kevin Prater, Guitar, Mandolin, Tenor, AssociatedPerformer - Owen Saunders, Fiddle, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2002 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
James King, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Steve Chandler, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ken Irwin, Producer, Recording Producer - Joe Clark, Guitar, Upright Bass, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - William Castle, ComposerLyricist - Adam Poindexter, Banjo, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Deaton, Producer, Assistant Producer - Toby Mountain, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Kevin Prater, Guitar, Mandolin, Tenor, AssociatedPerformer - Owen Saunders, Fiddle, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Ila Gaskin, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2002 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
James King, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Steve Chandler, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ken Irwin, Producer, Recording Producer - Joe Clark, Guitar, Upright Bass, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Clarke Van-Ness, ComposerLyricist - Buddy Starcher, ComposerLyricist - Adam Poindexter, Banjo, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Deaton, Producer, Assistant Producer - Toby Mountain, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Kevin Prater, Guitar, Mandolin, Tenor, AssociatedPerformer - Owen Saunders, Fiddle, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2002 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
James King, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - GEORGE JONES, ComposerLyricist - Steve Chandler, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ken Irwin, Producer, Recording Producer - Joe Clark, Guitar, Upright Bass, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Lawton Williams, ComposerLyricist - Adam Poindexter, Banjo, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Deaton, Producer, Assistant Producer - Toby Mountain, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Kevin Prater, Guitar, Mandolin, Tenor, AssociatedPerformer - Owen Saunders, Fiddle, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2002 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
James King, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Steve Chandler, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ken Irwin, Producer, Recording Producer - Joe Clark, Guitar, Upright Bass, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Willie Cullen Galyean, ComposerLyricist - Adam Poindexter, Banjo, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Deaton, Producer, Assistant Producer - Toby Mountain, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Kevin Prater, Guitar, Mandolin, Tenor, AssociatedPerformer - Owen Saunders, Fiddle, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2002 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Carl Story, ComposerLyricist - James King, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Carl Smith, ComposerLyricist - Steve Chandler, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ken Irwin, Producer, Recording Producer - Joe Clark, Guitar, Upright Bass, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Adam Poindexter, Banjo, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Deaton, Producer, Assistant Producer - Toby Mountain, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Kevin Prater, Guitar, Mandolin, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Owen Saunders, Fiddle, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Lyn Shirley, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2002 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
James King, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Steve Chandler, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ken Irwin, Producer, Recording Producer - Joe Clark, Guitar, Upright Bass, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Adam Poindexter, Banjo, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Ray Deaton, Producer, Assistant Producer - Toby Mountain, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Kevin Prater, Guitar, Mandolin, Tenor, AssociatedPerformer - Owen Saunders, Fiddle, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2002 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
James King, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Steve Chandler, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ken Irwin, Producer, Recording Producer - Joe Clark, Guitar, Upright Bass, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Adam Poindexter, Banjo, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Deaton, Producer, Assistant Producer - Toby Mountain, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Kevin Prater, Guitar, Mandolin, Tenor, AssociatedPerformer - Charlie McGuire, ComposerLyricist - Owen Saunders, Fiddle, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2002 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Album review
Again joined by the James King Band, with Owen Saunders now featured prominently, the masterly song interpreter delivers standard, high quality bluegrass music. Rounder bills King as a mountain soul singer, touting his adept blending of honky tonk with his inherent knowledge of hardcore bluegrass tradition, which has been honed by his stringent performance schedule, particularly at festivals. The band provides traditional harmonies and classic, polished string acrobatics (check out the instrumental "Whoopin' It"). Thirty Years of Farming opens with the title track, which was written by alt-country troubador Fred Eaglesmith, and recounts a family's loss of their farm due to bank foreclosure. Describing the subsequent auctioning of its equipment and possessions and the last look they take at their former home before driving off, probably to more urban frontiers, is kept from sentimentality by the timeless nature of its subject matter. The album also features songs by Tom T. and Dixie Hall and George Jones, and closes with a song King says he learned from Hazel Dickens, the lilting, mid-tempo, Charlie Maguire-penned "Play Us a Waltz."
© Travis Drageset /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 13 track(s)
- Total length: 00:42:49
- Main artists: James King
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Rounder
- Genre: Blues/Country/Folk Country
© 2002 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc. ℗ 2002 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
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