Midnight Moonlight

Midnight Moonlight
Midnight Moonlight
Studio album by New Riders of the Purple Sage
Released	May 12, 1992
Genre	Bluegrass, folk, country rock
Length	48:06
Label	Relix
Producer	Rusty Gauthier, John Dawson
New Riders of the Purple Sage chronology

Midnight Moonlight is the thirteenth studio album by the New Riders of the Purple Sage, released in 1992 on the Relix Records label.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Midnight Moonlight features studio recordings of original and cover songs, performed in a style heavily influenced by bluegrass and American folk music. The instrumentation is largely acoustic, with no drums. This is in contrast to most earlier New Riders albums, which emphasized electric country rock.

Track listing[]

"Midnight Moonlight" (Peter Rowan) – (4:10)
"Sutter's Mill" (John Dawson) – (3:25)
"Charlie's Garden" (Dawson) – (3:23)
"All I Remember" (Eric Moll, Karren Pell) – (3:23)
"Louisiana Lady" (Dawson) – (4:30)
"Ballad of the Deportees" (Woody Guthrie) – (3:23)
"Taking It Hard" (Joe New) – (4:26)
"Glendale Train" (Dawson) – (5:09)
"Change in the Weather" (Dawson) – (4:09)
"Diesel on My Tail" (Jim Fagan) – (3:05)
"Lonesome L.A. Cowboy" (Rowan) – (8:37)

Personnel[]

New Riders of the Purple Sage[]

John Dawson – acoustic guitar, vocals
– acoustic guitar, slide guitar, mandolin, fiddle, banjo, dumbek, vocals
– electric guitar, vocals
– bass, acoustic guitar

Additional musicians[]

Keith Allen – acoustic guitar, slide guitar, vocals
Norton Buffalo – harmonica, tambourine
Carolyn Gauthier – vocals
Bill Laymon – acoustic bass guitar
Evan Morgan – acoustic guitar
David Nelson – mandolin, acoustic guitar
John Pedersen – banjo, uilleann pipes
Kevin Wimmer – fiddle, Cajun accordion

Production[]

Rusty Gauthier, John Dawson – producers
Rusty Gauthier – recording and mixing

Notes[]

^ Midnight Moonlight at AllMusic
^ Midnight Moonlight at the Grateful Dead Family Discography
^ Strong, Martin C. (2004). The Great Rock Discography (7th ed.). Canongate U.S. p. 1083. ISBN 1-84195-615-5. Retrieved 2009-07-28.
^ Romanowski, Patricia (1995). The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll (revised ed.). Fireside. p. 708. ISBN 0-684-81044-1. Retrieved 2009-07-28.

[1] Midnight Moonlight at AllMusic

[2] Midnight Moonlight at the Grateful Dead Family Discography

[3] Strong, Martin C. (2004). The Great Rock Discography (7th ed.). Canongate U.S. p. 1083. ISBN 1-84195-615-5. Retrieved 2009-07-28.

[4] Romanowski, Patricia (1995). The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll (revised ed.). Fireside. p. 708. ISBN 0-684-81044-1. Retrieved 2009-07-28.

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