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The Original Harmony Ridge Creek Dippers

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Released
  
1997

Length
  
31:43

Producer
  
Mark Olson

Recorded
  
1997

Label
  
Original Harmony

Genre
  
Alternative country, folk

The Original Harmony Ridge Creek Dippers is the first album by the Original Harmony Ridge Creekdippers, released in 1997.

Contents

For his first post-Jayhawks recording, Mark Olson returned to his folk and country roots and with the help of his wife Victoria Williams and multi-instrumentalist Mike "Razz" Russell, self-released The Original Harmony Ridge Creek Dippers.

It was re-issued in 2001 by Koch Records.

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, music critic William Ruhlman called the album "a low-key effort that takes a distinctly homemade approach... As commercial releases go, one would have to call it underperformed and under-produced, with the feel of late-night exhaustion and dreamlike expression."

Track listing

All songs by Mark Olson otherwise noted.

  1. "Flowering Trees" – 3:13
  2. "When School Begins" (Olson, Victoria Williams) – 2:37
  3. "Run with the Ponies" – 3:48
  4. "Be on My Way Home" – 2:26
  5. "She Picks the Violets" – 2:33
  6. "Valentine King" – 3:45
  7. "Eyes are the Window" – 3:13
  8. "Humming Bird" (Olson, Williams) – 3:05
  9. "Mr. Parker" – 4:11
  10. "Jericho" (Olson, Williams) – 3:02

Personnel

  • Mark Olson – guitar, vocals, harmonica
  • Victoria Williams – background vocals
  • Mike Russell – guitar, mandolin, fiddle

    • References

    The Original Harmony Ridge Creek Dippers Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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