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Groupe Country Rock US formé en
1971 à Springfield (Missouri). Les Ozark Mountain Daredevils sont composés de
John Dillon, Steve Cash, Randle Chowning, Larry Lee, Buddy Brayfield et Michael
Granda.
The Ozark
Mountain Daredevils were among the more popular of mid-'70s country-rock outfits,
slotting in chronologically and stylistically between
the Eagles and Firefall. As exponents of '70s country-rock, the group rode a
wave of success for five years on A&M Records and survived in some form into the
1990s, with a following just large enough to justify occasional record releases
in their later years.
The sextet was formed in Missouri during the early '70s, consisting of
guitarists John Dillon and Steve Cash, blues harpist/singer/guitarist Randle
Chowning, drummer/guitarist/singer Larry Lee, keyboard player Buddy Brayfield,
and bassist-vocalist Michael Granda, and was signed to A&M Records in 1973.
Their first album, recorded under the supervision of producer Glyn Johns (who
had also worked with
the Eagles), was a critical success and yielded a Top 30 hit in "If You Want
to Get to Heaven." A year later, they had the biggest hit in their history,
"Jackie Blue," a mellow piece of country-rock that got to number three on the
charts and still gets played occasionally as a '70s oldie. They had an ethereal
edge to their sound and songs that made them especially appealing to college-age
listeners during the middle of the decade. Their self-titled debut album set the
tone for the group's next four releases, although by 1978's Don't Look Down, the
sound was somewhat closer to country-pop than country-rock. Collegiate girls and
their boyfriends could relate to them, and a sense of humor didn't hurt (their
third LP, The Car Over the Lake Album had cover art featuring -- you guessed it
-- a car over a lake).
Lee, Dillon (who later played with fellow Daredevil Steve Cash on the
Waylon Jennings/Jessi
Colter White Mansions concept album), and Chowning authored most of the
songs that anyone knows ("Jackie Blue," "Following the Way I Feel," "Fly Away
Home"). The group enjoyed success primarily on FM radio from 1973 until 1978,
and were popular enough to justify the recording and release of a double-LP
concert album -- they switched labels to CBS in 1980, losing Lee and Chowning by
the end of the decade but picking up
Buddy Emmons on steel guitar and Rune Walle on mandolin. The group ceased
recording activity in the 1980s, but re-formed and began making records again in
the mid-'90s, and there have been some surprising (and very rewarding) archival
releases devoted to their work, including early sessions (in which they were at
their purest country and bluegrass) and a reunion concert. All of their A&M
library has reappeared on CD (some more than once, with upgrades), especially in
Europe, and as of 2007 the group was still playing shows to enthusiastic
audiences in and around Missouri. Brown died in a house fire in 2004 and the
band played a memorial show in his memory in the fall of that same year, but
after that the group went into semi-retirement, emerging to play shows now and
then in different configurations before settling on a pretty consistent line up
of John Dillon, Steve Cash, Michael Granda, Ron Gremp, Dave Painter, Kelly
Brown, Bill Jones, Ruell Chappell and Nick Sibley. A new live album, Alive &
Wild, was issued in 2011.
http://www.ozarkdaredevils.com/
Talents : John : Guitar - Steve : Guitar - Randle : Blues Harp, Vocals, Guitar - Larry : Drums, Guitar, Vocals - Buddy : Keyboard - Michael : Bassist, Vocals
Style musical : Country Rock, Southern Rock, Pop Rock
Years in activity :
| 1910 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 80 | 90 | 2000 | 10 | 20 |
DISCOGRAPHY
Singles
| 10/1973 | SP A & M 1477-S (US) | . |
Country Girl / Within Without |
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| 1974 | SP A & M AM-224 (JAP) |
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Country Girl / Within Without | ||
| 03/1974 | SP A & M 1515-S (US) | . |
If You Wanna Get To Heaven / Spaceship Orion |
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| 1974 ? | SP A & M 625.020 (F) |
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If You Wanna Get To Heaven / Spaceship Orion | ||
| 04/1974 | SP A & M 13 273 AT (GER) |
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If You Wanna Get To Heaven / Spaceship Orion | ||
| 1974 | SP A & M 13.273-A (S) |
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If You Wanna Get To Heaven / Spaceship Orion | ||
| 09/1974 | SP A & M 1623-S (US) | . |
Look Away / It Probably Always Will |
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| 1974 | SP A & M 13 714 AT (GER) |
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Look Away / It Probably Always Will | ||
| 1975 | SP A & M 8571 (US) | . |
If You Wanna Get To Heaven / Look Away |
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| 01/1975 | SP A & M 1654-S (US) |
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| 03/1975 | SP A & M 13 865 AT (GER) |
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Jackie Blue / Better Days | ||
| 1975 | SP A & M 625 056 (F) |
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Jackie Blue / Better Days | ||
| 1975 | SP A & M 13 865 A (S) |
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Jackie Blue / Better Days | ||
| 08/1975 | SP A & M 1709-S (US) | . |
Thin Ice / Colorado Song |
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| 10/1975 | SP A & M 16 333 AT (GER) |
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Thin Ice / Colorado Song | ||
| 12/1975 | SP A & M 1772-S (US) |
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If I Only Knew / Dreams |
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| 1975 | Flexi A & M 92275S (US) |
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Establish Yourself / Time Warp / Journey To The Center Of Your Heart | ||
| 04/1976 | SP A & M 1808-S (US) | . |
Keep On Churnin' / Time Warp |
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| 04/1976 | SP A & M 1809-S (US) | . |
You Made It Right / Dreams |
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| 1976 | SP A & M 8586 (US) | . |
Jackie Blue / If I Only Knew |
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| 08/1976 | SP A & M 1842-S (US) | . |
Chicken Train Stomp / Journey To The Center Of Your Heart |
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| 10/1976 | SP A & M 1880-S (US) | . |
Noah / Red Plum |
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| 01/1977 | SP A & M 1888-S (US) |
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You Know Like I Know / Arroyo |
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| 11/1977 | SP A & M 1989-S (US) | . |
Crazy Lovin' / Stinghead |
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| 03/1978 | SP A & M 2016-S (US) | . |
Following The Way That I Feel / Snowbound |
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| 197? | SP 33 t. A & M 47.023 (BRA) |
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You Made It Right (Tema Da Staroup) / It'll Shine When It Shines | ||
| 03/1980 | SP COLUMBIA 1-11247 (US) | . |
Take You Tonight / Burnin' Out |
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| 08/1980 | SP COLUMBIA 1-11357 (US) | . |
Oh Darlin' / Sailin' Around The World |
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Albums
| 10/1973 | LP 12" A & M SP-4411 (US) |
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THE OZARK MOUNTAIN DAREDEVILS - Country Girl / Spaceship Orion / If You Wanna Get To Heaven / Chicken Train / Colorado Song / Standing On The Rock / Road To Glory / Black Sky / Within Without / Beauty In The River | ||
| 10/1974 | LP 12" A & M SP-3654 (US) |
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IT'LL SHINE WHEN IT SHINES - You Made It Right / Look Away / Jackie Blue / Kansas You Fooler / It Couldn't Be Better / E. E. Lawson / Walkin' Down The Road / What's Happened Along In My Life / It Probably Always Will / Lowlands / Tidal Wave / It'll Shine When It Shines / Better Days | ||
| 10/1975 | LP 12" A & M SP-4549 (US) |
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THE CAR OVER THE LAKE ALBUM - Keep On Churnin' / If I Only Knew / Leatherwood / Cobblestone Mountain / Mr. Powell / Gypsy Forest / Thin Ice / From Time To Time / Southern Cross / Out On The Sea / Whippoorwill | ||
| 1975 | LP 12" A & M 985 022 (F) |
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THE CAR OVER THE LAKE ALBUM - Keep On Churnin' / If I Only Knew / Leatherwood / Cobblestone Mountain / Mr. Powell / Gypsy Forest / Thin Ice / From Time To Time / Southern Cross / Out On The Sea / Whippoorwill | ||
| 1976 | LP 12" A & M SP-4601 (US) |
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MEN FROM EARTH - Fly Away Home / You Know Like I Know / Breakaway / The Red Plum / Mountain Range / Watermill / Noah / It's How You Think / Arroyo / Homemade Wine | ||
| 1976 | LP 12" A & M 985.040 (F) |
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MEN FROM EARTH - Fly Away Home / You Know Like I Know / Breakaway / The Red Plum / Mountain Range / Watermill / Noah / It's How You Think / Arroyo / Homemade Wine | ||
| 10/1977 | LP 12" A & M SP-4662 (US) |
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DON'T LOOK DOWN - River To The Sun / Crazy Lovin' / Giving It All To The Wind / The Fox / Backroads / Snowbound / Following The Way That I Feel / Love Makes The Lover / True Believer / Moon On The Rise / Stinghead | ||
| 08/1978 | 2 LP 12" A & M SP-6006 (US) |
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IT'S ALIVE
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| 05/1980 | LP 12" COLUMBIA JC-36375 (US) |
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OZARK MOUNTAIN DAREDEVILS - Take You Tonight / Jump At The Chance / Sailin' Around The World / Lovin' You / Tuff Luck / Oh, Darlin' / Empty Cup / Rosalie / Runnin' Out / Fool's Gold | ||
| 1981 | LP 12" A & M SP-3202 (US) |
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THE BEST OF OZARK MOUNTAIN DAREDEVILS - Jackie Blue / Following The Way I Feel / Road To Glory / You Know Like I Know / Leatherwood / Fly Away Home / If You Wanna Get To Heaven / Homemade Wine / You Made It Right / Country Girl / Walkin' Down The Road / Keep On Churnin' | ||
| 1985 | LP 12" Sounds Great SGS-5004 (US) |
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In The Lost Cabin Sessions - Long Time To Here / Lost Cabin / Canaday / Outside My Country Home / Feelin' Good / Dillon / Sheriff's Comin' / (I Threw Away) The Chains / Moon Come Up / Sometimes You Earn / Running Away |
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| 1987 | LP 12" DIXIEFROG DFG 8409 (F) |
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HEART OF THE COUNTRY - Everywhere She Goes / Heart Of The Country / Lonely Knight / Give 'em My Number / Fishin' In The Dark / I'm Still Dreamin' / Wilder Days / Turn It Up / Heatin' Up / The River | ||
| 1989 | CD Conifer Request CDRR-303 (UK) |
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Modern History - Everywhere She Goes / Love Is Calling / I'm Still Dreaming / Turn It Up / True Love / Lonely Knight / Over Again / Heatin' Up / The River / Heart Of The Country / Wilder Days |
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| 03/1997 | CD ECLIPSE MUSIC GROUPE 64883 (US) |
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JACKIE BLUE - Black Sky / If You Wanna Get To Heaven / Homemade Wine / It'll Shine When It Shines / Fly Away Home / Country Girl / You Made It Right / Walkin' Down The Road / Jackie Blue / Chicken Train | ||
| 07/1997 | CD ARCHIVE ACDM 1528 (US) |
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ARCHIVE ALIVE ! - Ozark Mountain Daredevils At The Cowtown Ballroom Kansas City, MO - Absolute Zero / Beauty In The River / Homemade Wine / Chicken Train / Mountain Range / Country Girl / Commercial Success / Noah / Sonora / (I Threw Away) The Chains / River To The Sun / Reudi Valley Boogie | ||
| 1997 | CD NEW ERA 31947-2 (US) |
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13 - Dream-O - Everywhere She Goes / Bad Road / Standing On The Corner Of Live And Learn / Over Again / New York / Where Are We / I'm Still Dreamin' / If It's True / In The Day, In The Night / Tear In The Rain / Love Is Calling / Barhoppin' | ||
| 1998 | CD Direct Source 7687 (US) |
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Jam Session - Atlanta Rhythm Section / Ozark Mountain Daredevils / CHICAGO - So Into You (Atlanta Rhythm Section) / Spooky (Atlanta Rhythm Section) / Imaginary Lover (Atlanta Rhythm Section) / I'm Not Gonna Let It Bother Me Tonight (Atlanta Rhythm Section) / Do It Or Die (Atlanta Rhythm Section) / Champagne Jam (Atlanta Rhythm Section) / Jackie Blue (Ozark Mountain Daredevils) / If You Wanna Get To Heaven (Ozark Mountain Daredevils) / Chicken Train (Ozark Mountain Daredevils) / Black Sky (Ozark Mountain Daredevils) / Homemade Wine (Ozark Mountain Daredevils) / It'll Shine When It Shines (Ozark Mountain Daredevils) / Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is (CHICAGO) / 25 or 6 to 4 (CHICAGO) / Questions 67 And 68 (CHICAGO) / I'm A Man (CHICAGO) / Liberation (CHICAGO) / South California Purples (CHICAGO) | ||
| 08/1999 | CD RENAISSANCE CDR-0708-2 (US) |
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CONCERT CLASSIC - VOLUME 8 - Chicken Train / Homeade Wine / Beauty In The River / Love Makes The Lover / Country Girl / Noah / Commercial Success / If You Wanna Get To Heaven / Look Away - The Raod Master | ||
| 12/2000 | CD A & M 490 819-2 (US) |
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TIME WARP - THE VERY BEST OF THE OZARK MOUNTAIN DAREDEVILS - If You Wanna Get To Heaven / Jackie Blue / Country Girl / Chicken Train / Spaceship Orion / Standing On The Rock / Road To Glory / You Made It Right / Look Away / E.E. Lawson / It Probably Always Will / Walkin' Down The Road / It'll Shine When It Shines / Keep On Churnin' / Leatherwood / Cobblestone Mountain / Mr. Powell / Homemade Wine / Arroyo / Giving It All To The Wind / Time Warp | ||
| 01/2001 | CD CLEOPATRA 988 (US) |
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GREATEST HITS - Black Sky / If You Wanna Get To Heaven / Homemade Wine / It'll Shine When It Shines / Fly Away Home / Country Girl / You Made It All Right / Walkin' Down The Road / Jackie Blue / Chicken Train | ||
| 10/2001 | CD PILOT 121 (UK) |
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MASTERS OF THE ROAD - Chicken Train / Homemade Wine / Beauty In The River / Love Makes The Lover - Country Girl / Noah / Commercial Success / If You Wanna Get To Heaven / Look Away / Road Master | ||
| 09/2002 | CD A & M 493 326-2 (US) |
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THE BEST OF THE OZARK MOUNTAIN DAREDEVILS - THE MILLENNIUM COLLECTION - If You Want To Get To Heaven / Jackie Blue / Country Girl / Spaceship Orion / Look Away / E.E. Lawson / Leatherwood / You Know Like I Know / Keep On Churnin' / Homemade Wine / Following The Way I Feel / Road To Glory | ||
| 2002 | CD Universal 828394549-2 (US) |
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THE CAR OVER THE LAKE ALBUM - Keep On Churnin' / If I Only Knew / Leatherwood / Cobblestone Mountain / Mr. Powell / Gypsy Forest / Thin Ice / From Time To Time / Southern Cross / Out On The Sea / Whippoorwill / BONUS TRACKS : Establish Yourself / Time Warp / Journey To The Center Of Your Heart | ||
| 2002 | CD A & M 069 490 545-2 (US) |
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MEN FROM EARTH - Fly Away Home / You Know Like I Know / Breakaway / The Red Plum / Mountain Range / Watermill / Noah / It's How You Think / Arroyo / Homemade Wine / BONUS TRACKS : A Dollar's Worth Of Regular / Roscoe's Rule / Better Days | ||
| 10/2003 | CD VARESE 302 066 508 2 (US) |
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THE LOST CABIN SESSION - Rhythm Of Joy / Lovin' Again / On Our Carousel / Someday Darlin' / Keep On Churnin' / Outside My Country Home / Lost Cabin / You Know Like I Know / Leatherwood / Fly Away Home / Chicken Train / Feelin' Good / Sheriff's Comin' / Walking In The Morning / (I Threw Away) The Chains / Rainbird / Long Time To Here / Satisfied Mind | ||
| 07/2004 | CD GALAXIE 381832-2 (UK) |
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OZARK MOUNTAIN DAREDEVILS - Black Sky / If You Wanna Get To Heaven / Homemade Wine / It'll Shine When It Shines / Fly Away Home / Country Girl / You Made It Right / Walkin' Down The Road / Jackie Blue / Chicken Train | ||
| 02/2005 | 2 CD BGO BGOCD648 (UK) |
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The Ozark Mountain Daredevils / It'll Shine When It Shines :
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| 11/2005 | CD NEW ERA A 96025 (US) |
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OZARK MOUNTAIN DAREDEVILS - Take You Tonight / Jump At The Chance / Sailin' Around The World / Lovin' You / Tuff Luck / Oh, Darlin' / Empty Cup / Rosalie / Runnin' Out / Fool's Gold | ||
| 2005 | CD NEW ERA B0004957-02 (US) |
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DON'T LOOK DOWN - River To The Sun / Crazy Lovin' / Giving It All To The Wind / The Fox / Backroads / Snowbound / Following The Way That I Feel / Love Makes The Lover / True Believer / Moon On The Rise / Stinghead / BONUS TRACKS : Sweetwood / Plainity / Valencia Road | ||
| 06/2006 | CD MUSIC AVENUE 250129 (EUR) |
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OUR MOST DANGEROUS STUNTS - Chicken Train / Jackie Blue / Fly Away Home / It'll Shine When It Shines / If You Wanna Get To Heaven / Black Sky / Homemade Wine / Walkin' Down The Road / You Made It Right / Country Girl | ||
| 08/2006 | CD VARESE 302 066747-2 (US) |
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1980 REUNION CONCERT - Standing On The Rock / Black Sky / Walkin Down The Road / One More Night / Oh Darlin / Look Away / Country Girl / Cobblestone Mountain / Thin Ice / Arroyo / Noah (Rode The Storm) / Jackie Blue / Durty Gurl / Satisfied Mind / Lovin’ You / Tuff Luck / If You Wanna Get To Heaven | ||
| 09/2006 | CD GUSTO 0607 (US) |
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OZARK MOUNTAIN DAREDEVILS SING THEIR BEST - Jackie Blue / If You Wanna Get To Heaven / You Made It Right / Black Sky / It'll Shine When It Shines / Country Girl / Homemade Wine / Chicken Train / Fly Away Home / Walkin' Down The Road | ||
| 10/2006 | CD BGO BGOCD737 (UK) |
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The Car Over The Lake Album / Men From Earth - Keep On Churin' / If I Only Knew / Leatherwood / Cobblestone Mountain / Mr. Powell / Gypsy Forest / Thin Ice / From Time To Time / Southern Cross / Out On The Sea / Whippoorwill / Fly Away Home / You Know Like I Know / Breakaway (From Those Chains) / The Red Plum / Mountain Range / Watermill / Noah / It's How You Think / Arroyo / Homemade Wine | ||
| 2006 | CD RENAISSANCE RMED-00708 (US) |
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ALIVE IN AMERICA - Chicken Train / Homeade Wine / Beauty In The River / Love Makes The Lover / Country Girl / Noah / Commercial Success / If You Wanna Get To Heaven / Look Away / The Raod Master | ||
| 05/2007 | CD KRB Music 8018 (US) |
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Fly Away Home - Jackie Blue / If You Wanna Get To Heaven / Chicken Train / Black Sky / Homemade Wine / It'll Shine When It Shines / Fly Away Home / You Made It Right / Walkin' Down The Road / Country Girl | ||
| 2008 | CD American Legends ALE 192067 (US) |
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AMERICAN LEGENDS - Jackie Blue / If You Wanna Get To Heaven / You Made It Right / Chicken Train / Country Girl / Homemade Wine / Walkin' Down The Road / It'll Shine When It Shines / Black Sky / Fly Away Home | ||
| 10/2009 | CD ALLEGRO 210023 (US) |
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JACKIE BLUE - Jackie Blue / If You Wanna Get To Heaven / You Made It Right / Chicken Train / Country Girl / Homemade Wine / Walkin' Down The Road / It'll Shine When It Shines / Black Sky / Fly Away Home | ||
| 2011 | 2 CD New Era 700261338163 (US) |
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Alive & Wild :
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| 2018 | CD Watermill ? (US) |
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Off The Beaten Path - No Way Out / Any Man / Going Down To The River / Every Now And Then / Don't / Gone Long Gone / Friend Of A Friend Of Mine / One And One / Off The Beaten Path / My Old Man (Was A Good Ol' Boy) / Back To Blue / Nosferatu / When The Rain Comes Pouring Down / Would You Go Downtown? / Waltzing With Lady St. Louie / And We Did Fall |
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| 2019 | CD Not On Label ? (US) |
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Heaven 20/20 - If You Wanna Get To Heaven 20/20 / No Way Out / Don't / Gone Long Gone / Friend Of A Friend Of Mine / You're Still Here / I Married A Cubs Fan (live) |
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| 04/2022 | CD Goldenlane GLLN2651 (US) |
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Jackie Blue - The Greatest Hits '96 - If You Wanna Get To Heaven / Fly Away Home / Jackie Blue / It'll Shine When It Shines / Chicken Train / Black Sky / Homemade Wine / Walkin' Down The Road / You Made It Right / Country Girl |
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