Long Ride Home

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Scott’s impressive resumé incorporates songwriting, studio musicianship and solo artistry.

His songs have been recorded by more than 70 artists, from Garth Brooks to Guy Clark to Keb’ Mo’. He’s recorded with Steve Earle, Joan Baez, Jim Lauderdale, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Randy Travis and Robert Plant, to name a few. His solo discography, spanning 15 years, comprises five albums of newly written material (six counting his rejected 1992 first effort, which surfaced in 2003 as “Theatre of the Unheard”), a live album (2004’s “Live in NC”) and a collection of folk covers (2008’s “Modern Hymns”).

“Long Ride Home” differs from Scott’s previous releases: It’s closer to traditional country and contains nary a trace of folk, bluegrass or jazz. But subtle shades of outlaw country reflect aspects of earlier offerings.

The tracking band for the sessions, recorded at his Nashville home studio, is Scott (guitars and vocals), Hargus “Pig” Robbins (piano), Kenny Malone (drums) and Dennis Crouch (upright bass).  Hired hands include Lloyd Green (pedal steel), and Charlie McCoy and Mickey Raphael (harmonicas).

Among the guest singers are Rodney Crowell (“Hopkinsville”), Patty Griffin (“You’ll Be With Me All the Way”), Tim O’Brien and John Cowan (“No Love in Arkansas” and “Too Close to Comfort”), and Guy Clark (who shares lead vocals on his co-write, “Out in the Parking Lot”).

Scott wrote two songs, “The Country Boy” and “You’re Everything I Wanted Love to Be,” 36 years ago — when he was just 16 — at a cabin in Big Bear, Calif., with his late father, Wayne. Scott had made it possible for his dad to finally release an album of his own in 2005, and last year just before he passed away, the two cut “The Country Boy” together in the studio.

“Long Ride Home” is Scott’s tribute to the background music of his childhood, “country music how I remember it.” It’s also his best album yet.

Tracks
1. It Must Be Sunday
2. Hopkinsville
3. Out In The Parking Lot
4. Someday
5. No Use Living For Today
6. You’re Everything I Wanted Love To Be
7. Dance In The Darkness
8. No Love In Arkansas (The Ring)
9. The Country Boy
10. Trying Not To Love You
11. Pay Lake
12. Candle For A Cowboy
13. Every Road Leads Back To You
14. Too Close To Comfort
15. You’ll Be With Me All The Way
16. Still Got A Ways To Go

Total time: 1:02:49

External links
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