Traditional Ties

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Traditional Ties
Sugar Hill Records
Hot Rize chronology
Radio Boogie
(1981)
Traditional Ties
(1986)
Untold Stories
(1987)
Professional ratings
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Traditional Ties is a third album by the

Flying fish records. Critic Thom Owens called the album "arguably their best effort ever".[1]

The song "Walk the Way the Wind Blows", written by Tim O'Brien and included on Traditional Ties, was covered by country music artist Kathy Mattea. Her recording reached #10 on the Billboard Top 40 Country listing.[2]

Track listing

  1. Hard Pressed (O'Brien) 2.36
  2. If I Should Wander Back Tonight (Flatt, Scruggs) 2:38
  3. Walk the Way the Wind Blows (O'Brien) 3:38
  4. Hear Jerusalem Moan (trad.) 2:54
  5. Frank's Blues (Edmonson, Wernick) 2:37
  6. John, Lost (trad.) 2:32
  7. Montana Cowboy (Park) 2:42
  8. Footsteps So Near (Forster, O'Brien) 4:09
  9. Leather Britches (trad.) 2:34
  10. Working on a Building (trad.) 3:29
  11. John Henry (trad.) 1:47
  12. Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning (trad.) 2:46

Personnel

  • Nick Forster - bass, vocals
  • Tim O'Brien - vocals, mandolin, violin
  • Pete Wernick - banjo, vocals
  • Charles Sawtelle - guitar, vocals

References

  1. ^
    AllMusic
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944–2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 217.