Herb Pedersen - - Lonesome Feeling

1. The Last Thing On My Mind

2. Childish Love

3. The Fields Have Turned Brown

4. The Homecoming

5. Easy Ride

6. Lonesome Feeling

7. Willow Garden

8. It's Worth Believing

9. Even The Worst Of Us

10. Your Love Is Like A Flower



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Taking advantage of the attention stirred up by the Laurel Canyon Ramblers, Sugar Hill finally reissued Pedersen's 1984 solo project, Lonesome Feeling, on CD. This is the album which anticipated the Desert Rose Band by bringing together Pedersen, Chris Hillman, and Jay Dee Maness on material ranging from Gordon Lightfoot folksongs to Flatt & Scruggs bluegrass classics, as well as a pair of Pedersen originals. The arrangements balanced the bluegrass of Pedersen's banjo and Hillman's mandolin with the honky-tonk of Maness's pedal steel and a tasteful rhythm section. As an early example of bluegrass-with-drums, and as a rare glimpse at Pedersen's personal vision, it's well worth a second listen. --Geoffrey Himes