Fast as Time Can Take Me (2005)

About this title: County has developed a reputation as one of the best independent record labels when it comes to issuing old-time music from an earlier era. They've become so good at it, in fact, that an album like Fast as Time Can Take Me by the Troublesome Creek String Band will take some CD buyers by surprise. The Troublesome Creek String Band, featuring vocalist/fiddler Rick Martin, banjoist Steve Arkin, guitarist/vocalist Dick Harrington, and bassist/vocalist Lorie Lichtenwalner, aren't an unearthed string band from yesteryear, after all, but contemporary performers. The irony of all contemporary old ... read more

Tracks:

1. Yell in the Shoats/Piney Ridge
2. River of Jordan
3. Walk Along John to Kansas
4. I'm Going to the West
5. Dinah
6. Gypsy Davy
7. Ten Steps/Little Mary Marshall
8. I've Got a Bulldog
9. Cousin Sally Brown
10. Midnight on the Stormy Deep
11. Gospel Plow
12. The Three Babes
13. Danville Girl
14. Paddy on the Handcar/Georgia Horseshoe
15. Adieu False Heart
16. Rockbridge Blues/Brushy Fork of John's Creek
17. When First Unto This Country
18. Lost Indian
19. Little Sadie
20. Lonesome Pine Special
21. Possum Up a 'Simmon Tree/Troublesome Creek
22. The Ballad of Cole Younger
23. Sweet Marie

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.