SATURDAY'S SINGLES : COBBLE MOUNTAIN BAND and VERN GOSDIN

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Good morning, morning people and welcome to the post Christmas and last Saturday's Singles of the year. With it being the last week of the year we chose two tracks that signify goodbyes or an end of things. Our first selection comes to us via Massachusetts country rock jazz fusion outfit, the Cobble Mountain Band. Their one and only self titled debut was released in 1979 with the single from it, "Everybody's Got To Leave Sometime" released in 1981 on Singlebrook Records. Information on this group isn't easy to find but what I can find indicates the band is from Tyringham, MA, and found it's origins in a barn that was shadowed by the great Cobble Mountain. The B-side is "Old Time Rhythm Of Love". I found the album credits and will post them below. By the way this 45 was purchased last year at Treasure House Antiques and Collectibles in Winter Haven, FL. I bought it mainly because I'd never heard of them and the label has green lizards on it and I thought it wood look cool spinning on the turntable. It does.

Arranged By – Cobble Mountain Band

Bass – Chris Tuttle

Drums – Ray Cuevas

Engineer [Recording Engineer] – Jesse Henderson , Les Kahn

Fiddle – Richard Thornburg

Guest, Musician – Arlo Guthrie, Carol Ide, Danny Velika, Fred Hellerman, Jemima James, Jesse Henderson , John Pilla, Les Kahn, Mary Ellen Tuttle, Peter McEachern, Steve Asetta , Steve Ide, Terry A La Berry

Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar – Glenn Ferrell

Lead Vocals – Amasa Miller (tracks: A3), Pete Adams (tracks: B3), Richard Thornburg (tracks: A4), Walter Palmer

Pedal Steel Guitar – Pete Adams

Piano, Fiddle – Amasa Miller

Producer – John Pilla

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Our second selection is "Till The End",the title track to Vern Gosdin's 1976 Elektra record. The song reached #7 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart. Both it and it's flip side, "It Started All Over Again" are duets featuring fellow country musician Janie Fricke.

Vern Gosdin - vocals, guitar

Janie Fricke - vocals

Gary S. Paxton - producer

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