When the Last Morning Glory Blooms

History

A collection of nine waltzes and one ballad, many of the songs were written by Ostroushko for family and friends that he didn't expect to record. The title song was one he had written and played once on A Prairie Home Companion, and never played again.

Reception

In his Allmusic review, music critic Jeff Tamarkin wrote

There's a quiet elegance and an undeniable timelessness embedded in the ten songs that comprise When the Last Morning Glory Blooms, as if Peter Ostroushko didn't so much write them as discover them, lying around undisturbed for a hundred years, on yellowed sheet music atop a forgotten parlor piano in some dusty attic... Ostroushko avoids flourish and the ostentatious; his technique on both mandolin and fiddle is the definition of virtuosity, but that's never what it's about for him. Ostroushko's purpose in brandishing an instrument isn't to dazzle with flash and style but to communicate as directly as possible, both with his fellow players and his listeners, and he accomplishes that easily here... Ostroushko displays, not for the first time and surely not for the last, why the praises never stop coming his way.

Track listing

All songs by Peter Ostroushko unless otherwise noted.

1. "Maycomb, Alabama" – 4:52
2. "When the Last Morning Glory Blooms" – 5:26
3. "The B and B Waltz" – 3:57
4. "Napoleon Crossing the Alps" (Traditional) – 4:01
5. "The Nine Years Waltz" (Norman Blake) – 3:33
6. "Down Where the River Bends" – 5:50
7. "Marjorie's Waltz #4" – 3:48
8. "The A and A Waltz" – 4:31
9. "Waltz for Sedra" – 2:37
10. "Memories of Tyler, Texas" – 3:26

Personnel

Peter Ostroushko – mandolin, fiddle

Diane Tremaine – cello

Sedra Bistodeau – fiddle

Nancy Blake – cello ("The Nine Years Waltz")

Norman Blake – guitar ("The Nine Years Waltz")

Joel Sayles – bass

Dan Chouinard – accordion, piano

Pat Donohue – guitar, slide guitar

Richard Dworsky – piano

Dick Gimble – guitar

Johnny Gimble – fiddle

Beatrice Blanc – violin

Michael Sutton – violin

Sabina Thatcher – viola

Sarah Lewis – cello

Production notes:

Peter Ostroushko – producer, mixing, arranger

Executive producer – Eric Peltoniemi

David Hammonds – engineer

David Middlebrook Engineer

Matthew Zimmerman – engineer, mastering, mixing

Anna Kim Ostroushko – photography

Daniel Corrigan – photography

Jon Reischl – cover art