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Elevation (Yonder Mountain String Band album)

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Released
  
1999

Length
  
56:30

Release date
  
1999

Genre
  
Progressive bluegrass

Recorded
  
September 14–17, 1999

Producer
  
Sally Van Meter

Label
  
Frog Pad Records

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Elevation (1999)
  
Mountain Tracks Volume 1 (2001)

Artist
  
Yonder Mountain String Band

Similar
  
Mountain Tracks: Volume 4, Mountain Tracks: Volume 3, Town by Town, Mountain Tracks: Volume 2, Mountain Tracks: Volume 1

Elevation is the progressive bluegrass debut album of the Yonder Mountain String Band. It was released in 1999 by Frog Pad Records, an independent record label run by the band. The album features appearances by bluegrass musicians Mike Marshall and Darol Anger.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Half Moon Rising" – 4:31
  2. "Mental Breakdown" – 2:57
  3. "The Bolton Stretch" – 2:45
  4. "Left Me in a Hole" – 5:25
  5. "Darkness and Light" – 5:23
  6. "On the Run" – 3:49
  7. "Eight Cylinders" – 3:53
  8. "40 Miles from Denver" – 3:46
  9. "This Lonesome Heart" – 2:06
  10. "At the End of the Day" – 3:38
  11. "Mossy Cow" – 2:46
  12. "High on a Hilltop" – 2:42
  13. "To Say Goodbye, to Be Forgiven" – 3:41
  14. "If There's Still Ramblin' in the Rambler (Let Him Go)" – 2:46
  15. "Waijal Breakdown" – 6:22

Yonder Mountain String Band

  • Dave Johnston – banjo, vocals
  • Jeff Austin – mandolin, vocals
  • Ben Kaufmann – bass, vocals
  • Adam Aijala – guitar, vocals, banjo on track 15

    • Other musicians

  • Darol Anger – fiddle on tracks 11 & 15
  • Celeste Krenz – additional vocals on track 7
  • Mike Marshall – mandolin on track 15
  • Sally Van Meter – electric lap slide on track 7, additional vocals on track 7, resophonic guitar on track 8

    • Technical

  • David Glasser – mastering
  • Dave Hardy – photography
  • James Tuttle – engineer, mixing

    • Songs

    1Half Moon Rising4:36
    2Mental Breakdown3:01
    3The Bolton Strech2:49

    References

    Elevation (Yonder Mountain String Band album) Wikipedia
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