25 Years (Country Gentlemen album)

25 Years is a compilation album by the progressive bluegrass band Country Gentlemen, released in 1980 by Rebel Records. The 24 tracks capture the first 25 years of the long history of the band with all various incarnations of the Country Gentlemen.[1][2]

25 Years
Greatest hits album by Country Gentlemen
Released	1980
Genre	Bluegrass, progressive bluegrass
Label	Rebel Records
Producer	Charles R. Freeland
Country Gentlemen chronology
Calling My Children Home (1978) 25 Years (1980) Sit Down, Young Stranger (1980)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Matterhorn"	Mel Tillis	2:18
2.	"I Am Weary, Let Me Rest"	Pete Roberts (Pete Kuykendall)	2:32
3.	"Two Little Boys"	trad.	3:14
4.	"The World's No Place to Live"		2:49
5.	"Girl from the North Country"	Bob Dylan	3:43
6.	"500 Miles"		3:29
7.	"Aunt Dinah's Quilting Party"		2:48
8.	"Copper Kettle"		2:53
9.	"Helen"		2:23
10.	"Little Bessie"	trad.	3:29
11.	"Many a Mile"	Patrick Sky	2:20
12.	"Come All Ye Tender-Hearted"		3:08
13.	"Teach Your Children"	Graham Nash	2:34
14.	"Where I'm Bound"	Tom Paxton	2:22
15.	"Redwood Hill"	Gordon Lightfoot	2:38
16.	"Letter to Tom"	John Duffey	3:13
17.	"Less of Me"	Glen Campbell	2:02
18.	"Devil's Little Angel"		3:52
19.	"The Likes of You"	Randall Hylton	2:05
20.	"This Morning at Nine"	Sid Campbell	2:24
21.	"Dixieland for Me"	Curtis McPeake	2:30
22.	"The Fields Have Turned Brown"	Carter Stanley	3:04
23.	"Over the Hills to the Poorhouse"	David Braham, trad.	2:57
24.	"Come and Sit by the River"	Roehrig	3:29

Personnel

• Charlie Waller – guitar, vocals
• Doyle Lawson – mandolin, vocals
• James Bailey – banjo, vocals
• Bill Yates – bass, vocals
• Spider Gillam – bass
• Ed Ferris – bass, vocals
• Eddie Adcock – banjo, vocals
• John Duffey – mandolin, vocals
• Tom Gray – bass, vocals

References

1. 25 Years The Country Gentlemen Allmusic.com Thom Owens
2. "Album info". Music.barnesandnoble.com. 1994-08-24. Retrieved 2011-09-01.

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