Careless Darlin'

Performed by The Countrymen
Zoomer Roberts: vocal, electric bass
Gordon Young: emcee, drums
Hank Telford: rhythm guitar
Carlis Vannatter: steel guitar
Dub Purvis: fiddle
Recorded at Hines Lumber Co., El Paso TX
1978

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All the Good Times Are Past and Gone

Zoomer Roberts: vocal, recitation, Dobro
Buddy Winston: vocal, guitar
Jerry Boyer: vocal
recorded 1984

I always taped the Jerry, Buddy & Zoomer rehearsals in order to memorize the arrangements, and most of our repertoire was thus preserved. Besides my rudimentary Dobro playing, this well-worn song features a poem that Buddy found inscribed in a nineteenth-century textbook. Because the recitation is a bit off-mic, the text is given here:

In other days, if you recall
the days of pleasure past,
and think of joyous hours
that all have flown away so fast;
if some forgotten air you hear
recalls past scenes to thee
and sadly claims thy list'ning ear,
keep, o keep, just one kind thought for me.

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Love Letters In the Sand

Zoomer Roberts: vocal
Buddy Winston: guitar
Recorded 25 May 2019

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