John Fogerty: Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again - released today!

[ddeclue]

I give this album 5 stars - yes it is a collection of covers but what an awesome display of musicianship!

http://www.johnfogerty.com/





Paradise:

When I was a child, my family would travel
Down to western Kentucky where my parents were born
And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered
So many times that my mem'ries are worn

And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

Well sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill

And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

And the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man

And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

Words and music by John Prine

[Sebastian Doyle]

1. So his last album sounded like classic Creedence (even though it wasn't)

and this one is a return of the Blue Ridge Rangers. Does this mean we can expect Centerfield II in a few more years?

[spanone]

2. i know mr prine and he is thrilled by this performance.....great song.

[ddeclue]

3. Wow! I had never heard this song before but now I'm on iTunes buying the Denver version too.

Great song, I likes teh bluegrass! :)

[MO_Dem]

4. Woohoo! John Fogerty is one of my all time favorites

I bought the first Blue Ridge Rangers album when it came out on vinyl, and I still have it. It's been played many, many, many times through the years. :yourock: