Glamour & Grits
The first record by the Sam Bush Band, with Bela Fleck, John Cowan and Jerry Douglas among the guests.
Sam Bush, 1996
- Released
- 1996
- Label
- Sugar Hill
- Producer
- Sam Bush
Bush formed his own band, with Cowan and the former Nash Ramblers Jon Randall and Larry Atamanuik, shortly before recording Glamour & Grits. Sugar Hill released it in 1996. Bush produced, Dave Sinko recorded and mixed it, and Denny Purcell mastered it.
Outside writers include Jeff Black, Tim Krekel, Willis Alan Ramsey, Darrell Scott and Verlon Thompson, and Bob Marley wrote Is This Love. Al Kooper plays on All Night Radio and Is This Love. Bush wrote Stingray, Watson Allman and Spooky Lane himself, and shared credit with Fleck on Whayasay and (One Night In Old) Galway.
Track listing
- Whayasay6:08
- Same Ol' River5:37
- All Night Radio4:38
- Stingray5:21
- The Ballad of Spider John4:23
- Watson Allman3:14
- Is This Love5:16
- Brilliancy2:19
- Spooky Lane4:01
- Ol' Joe Clark5:07
- The Lord Came Unto Me2:50
- (One Night In Old) Galway4:30
Personnel
- Sam Bush mandolin, fiddle, guitar, vocals, producer
- John Cowan bass, vocals
- Jon Randall guitar, vocals
- Larry Atamanuik drums
- Bela Fleck banjo
- Jerry Douglas dobro on The Ballad of Spider John
- Al Kooper piano and organ
More from Sam Bush
Ice Caps: Peaks of Telluride (2000), Storyman (2016), Radio John: Songs of John Hartford (2022)
Sources
- Sam Bush, Glamour & Grits, Discogs
- Sam Bush, Wikipedia