Pass It Down
/ The Doughty Hill Band
As musicians,
we all like to take measure of ourselves with a collect of our work from time
to time. Like the family photo album, these songs are a collection of thoughts
and experiences that have struggled through the creative process to be born,
matured, and finally recorded. Some are labored on for months to find the right
words, and other come through all at once as if transferred from some unknown
source.
The Songs:
- At the Crossing. In the early 70’s I tried my hand at
being a railroad man. I guess you could say I missed the train a lot.
Though the money was good, it took me away from the things I loved the
most in life. This song was written, while I was still struggling with
that decision.
- Pass It Down. In the fall of “78,
during a stretch of cold wet weather, my father passed away leaving behind
a farm and a legacy, He had tended them each faithfully all of his life,
yet in the end all he could do was to pass it down.
- Soldier Song. All soldiers hold on
to three things that get them
through the hard days. Home , love ones, and Duty. Only the order on their
importance changes with the individual.
- Older Ladies. Every year it seems
young girls look younger and older ladies look better. It must be what all
those yodelers of old were talking about…Olda-La-dee-who
- Hartford’s Reel. A great instrumental that
lets the Doughty Hill Boys do some pickin’.
- Tell Me Some Lies. This is a re
relies of a song that was on the B side of The Lost Child 45 produced back
in the ‘80s
- The Ballad of Harold & Ida Harold and Ida were a real life couple
who were the parents of the drummer of the first band I was ever in. They
were indeed colorful and I was at the impressionable age of 12.
This is the story Harold related to me of
his first meeting with Ida.
- Frost Morn. This is an adaption of
a traditional song performed by Doc Watson. Ron Hall originally wrote the
guitar instrumental that Brian performs here.
- Down to the River to Pray Again another traditional song sung by Tracy, with Sunny
and I doing background vocals.
- DeEvolution I have always found it strange that the
people of the middle ages wrote such wonderfully classic music, dressed so
eloquently, and yet lived in a technically primitive world. Today, with our computerized society, we
have adapted stone age styles of tattoos and body piecing. And then
there’s rap.. must be DeEvolution.
- Hauling Freight My brother Richard ,who was a railroad
man most of his life wrote the words to this song, which I thing is a
great piece of genuine Americana.
Add a melody, a banjo,Doughty Hill and it became a song.
- The Promises. Written for the Wedding of two dear
friends this song is about the promises you make that day. I can’t tell
you how many weddings this has been performed at, as a Good Luck Song.
Tracy Michard
Stutzman. Vocals
Sunny Skies
Stutzman Vocals, Acoustic Bass, Alto
Sax, Saprano Sax
Harmonica .
Brian
Smith Acoustic
guitar, electric bass, and percusion
Sid
Stutzman Vocals,
acoustic guitar, mandolin, 6string banjo,
Electric bass, electric guitar, and percusion
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Number of hits: 977
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