15 Years: A Retrospective

by Sons of the San Joaquin

Overview

If a group can stay together for 15 years, that's reason enough to celebrate. If that group, like the Sons of the San Joaquin, specializes in keeping music from a bygone era alive, the feat is even more special. Fifteen Years: A Retrospective celebrates three singers' commitment to the wide-open plains, cattle roundups, and drinking coffee from a tin cup. As with the Sons of the Pioneers, the band -- Jack, Joe, and Lon Hannah -- fill their romantic odes with lots of close harmony and spare arrangements. Familiar fare -- "Happy Cowboy," "Song of the Rover," and "Ghost Riders in the Sky" -- mesh with a number of Jack Hannah originals to fashion an album as easy rolling as the prairie wind. The group's vision of the west is a romantic one: cacti, dusty trails, campfires, coyotes, and ponies litter the landscape. The cowboy might be punching cattle to the day he dies, as in "Utah," but he wouldn't have it any other way. If a song is titled "Anything but a Cowboy," one can be sure that the phrase will be qualified by, "That's why I'll never want to be." For anyone with an interest in '30s and '40s cowboy music, Fifteen Years: A Retrospective offers an excellent introduction to one of the best Western revival bands. ~ Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr.

Product Details

Release Date:	07/27/2004
Label:	Dualtone Music / Western Jubilee Recording Co.
UPC:	0803020117129
Rank:	73120

Tracks

1. Happy Cowboy
2. Timber Trail
3. The Gift
4. Great American Cowboy
5. Along the Santa Fe Trail
6. Song of the Rover
7. Wyoming on My Mind
8. Is It Because
9. Anything But a Cowboy
10. From Whence Came the Cowboy
11. I Ride Along and Dream
12. Charlie and the Boys
13. Texas Plains
14. Utah (With One Eye)
15. (Ghost) Riders in the Sky
16. The Legend of Jack Kincaid

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Sons of the San Joaquin   Primary Artist
Eddie Gordon   Harmonica,Harmonica
Hereford Percy   Banjo,Banjo
Bob Embry   Clarinet
Jeff Hall   Percussion,Bass,Guitar,Percussion,Tambourine
Joe Hannah   Vocals,Bass,Percussion
Doc Denning   Guitar
Jack Hannah   Vocals,Guitar,Percussion,Guitar (Rhythm)
Lon Hannah   Vocals,Guitar,Percussion,Guitar (Rhythm)
Dennis Mack   Accordion
Mike Dana   Guitar,Guitar (Rhythm)
Ray Appleton   Tambourine,Harmonica
Rob Wagoner   Guitar
Rich O'Brien   Guitar,Guitar (Rhythm)
Tim Alexander   Accordion
Dale Morris   Fiddle
Richard Chon   Fiddle
Mark Abbott   Bass
John Lauffenberger   Bass
Randy "The Owl" Elmore   Fiddle

Technical Credits

Scott O'Malley   Audio Production,Producer
Rich O'Brien   Audio Production,Producer
Russell Pate   Audio Production
Jeff Hall   Audio Production,Engineer,Producer
Stan Jones   Composer
Charlie Daniels   Composer
Tim Spencer   Composer
Will Grosz   Composer
Nye Morton   Engineer
Edwina Coolidge   Composer
Russ Pate   Producer
Pete Papageorges   Mastering
Eric Sherbon   Analog Transfer
Robert Vosgien   Mastering
Mike Talmadge   Engineer
Mark Petty   Engineer
Stuart Hamblen   Composer
Butch Hause   Engineer
Bob Nolan   Composer
Ian Tyson   Composer
Al Dubin   Composer
Jack Hannah   Composer
Sons of the San Joaquin   Executive Producer
Jack Hanna   Composer