Good Causes

Good Causes
Studio album by Gamble Rogers
Released 2003
Genre Folk
Length 59:42
Label Oklawaha Records
Producer Charles Steadham
Gamble Rogers chronology
Signs of a Misspent Youth
(1999)		 Good Causes
(2003)

Good Causes is the sixth album from folk singer Gamble Rogers.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "The Masterbuilders" - 2:09
  2. "Good Causes" - 7:04
  3. "Long Legged Woman" - 2:07
  4. "Bed to Breakfast" - 5:13
  5. "Home Grown Lucifer (Habersham County Mephistopheles)" - 3:01
  6. "Blood Mountain" - 3:52
  7. "Jury Man Blues" - 2:42
  8. "Alabaster Sally" - 2:13
  9. "Mama Blue" - 2:38
  10. "Dance Hall Gals" - 4:17
  11. "Saturday's Luck" - 2:54
  12. "Color Becoming Grace" - 2:38
  13. "Black Label Blues (Jack Daniel's Blues)" - 2:35
  14. "Doris" - 4:18
  15. "Cairo Lament" - 5:06
  16. "The Girl From Stoney Lonesome 2:36
  17. "Margaret and The Dutchman 4:19

Credits

Produced by Charles Steadham for the Gamble Rogers Memorial Foundation
Digitially Recorded, Edited & Mastered: Ray Valla, Mirror Image Recording Studios, Gainesville, Florida
Recording Engineer: Harry Monkhorst
Photography: Spencer A. Weiner, Randy Batista
Liner Notes: Harold Fethe
Research: Andria Phillips
Graphics: Paula Rosen, Anything Graphic, Gainesville, FL
Oklawaha Records Logo by: Rob Blount
Doyle Grisham: Acoustic lead and rhythm guitar, electric guitar, dobro, pedal steel.
Buddy Spicher: Fiddle.
Joe Osborn: Bass
Larry Londin: Drums

Nomenclature

The album's name is derived from a friend of Rogers' who told of his experience with his love, a "truck stop queen". When the friend went off on business, his love would associate in a non-faithful manner with men traveling through her town. When the friend asked to his love, "How can you so profane our precious love?" she replied, "Aw, Honey, it ain't nothin.' I just do them old boys for good causes."[1]

Archival Note

Charles Steadham, Rogers' manager and friend converted tapes where the original music resided into first-generation source material for this CD. Ray Valla, the album's recording engineer, applied a rescue technique that, through baking, temporarily re-laminates separated layers of aging audio tapes. [2]

References

  1. ^ As paraphrased from Gamble Rogers Songs & Stories, Introduction to "Good Causes"
  2. ^ CD Liner notes