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T. Michael Coleman Recorded at The Nashville Sound Connection Nashville, TN |
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Bill Vorn Dick Mastered by Jim Loyd at Masterfonics Nashville, TN |
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ROBIN WILLIAMS: vocals, guitar, mouth harp LINDA WILLIAMS: vocals, guitar STUART DUNCAN: fiddle, mandolin JERRY DOUGLAS: dobro |
RAY FLACKE: electric guitar, gut string guitar FLIP ANDERSON: piano T. MICHAEL COLEMAN: bass PAt MclNERNEY:drums |
BARRY POSS, TRACY SMITH, LES DAVIS, JERI GOLDSTEIN,
and MICHAEL COLEMAN for making this project possible.
"All Broken Hearts are the Same" marks the beginning of their recording careers with Sugar Hill Records. It was produced by T. Michael Coleman who has played bass with Doc Watson, The Seldom Scene, and the hot new band Chesapeake, Mike introduced Robin and Linda to the community of great mucicians in Nashville. The strength of the songs makes this LP stand the test of time. A rural theme rums throughout the lyrics and they strike to the very heart of country life in original songs like "Leaving This Land," "Pine Country," "Stonewall Country," "Annie" and their tribute to Hank Willianms, "Rollin' and Ramblin" (which was recorded by Emmylou Harris). The gorgeous traditional southern ballad "Across the Blue Mountains" has become one of their signature songs.
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1) ROLLIN' AND RAMBLIN' (The Death of Hank Williams) 3:11 R. & L. Williams / J. Clark (Songs of PolyGram/Brantford Music, BMI) 2) ALL BROKEN HEARTS ARE THE SAME 3:28 R. & L. Williams / J. Clark (Songs of PolyGram/Brantford Music, BMI) 3) BABY ROCKED HER DOLLY 8:02 M. Kilgore (Ft. Knox/Trio Music/Shelby Singleton Music, Inc., BMI) 4) LEAVING THIS LAND 3:42 R. & L. Williams / J. Clark (Songs of PolyGram/Brantford Music, BMI) 5) ANNIE 3:23 R. & L. Williams / J. Clark (Songs of PolyGram/Brantford Music, BMI) |
6) RIDING ON THE SANTA FE 3:29 R. & L. Williams / J. Clark (Songs of PolyGram/Brantford Music, BMI) 7) PANHANDLE WIND 4:16 T. Paxton (Accabonac Music, ASCAP) 8) PINE COUNTY 3:11 R. Williams / J. Clark (The New Music Times, Inc., BMI) 9) STONE WALL COUNTRY 3:25 R. & L. Williams (Lime Kiln Arts, Inc. & The New Music Times, Inc., BMI) 10) ACROSS THE BLUE MOUNTAINS 4:39 trad., arranged & adapted by R. & L. Williams (Southern Melody Pub. Co., BMI) 11) AFTER THE FLOOD 3:41 M. McKee (Little Diva Music Co./Warner - Tamerlane Publishing Corp., Salespace Music as admin. for Little Diva Music Co./BMI) |
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Rollin' And Ramblin'
(The Death of Hank Williams) By Robin & Linda Williams & Jerome Clark 1988 Songs of PolyGram/Brantford Music BMI Folks in Nashville slammed the door Said we don't want you anymore Find your own way down the road Pack your fiddle and your guitar Take a train or take a car Find someone else to keep you from the cold Chorus: Rollin' and ramblin' The women loved him half to death He sang with whiskey on his breath His heart broke like a childs Rollin' and ramblin' The sun has set out on the trail The hobo's drifted up the trail He's taken his last ride Oh, he always sang me blues Like it was all he ever knew He didn't sing at all that night He was pale and as he dozed He didn't know his time had closed Slumped in the back seat to the right Chorus So they sent him on a night train south Through the cities and the rural routes Just one more place to go Oh the whistle sang the bluest note Like it came from his own throat Moaning sad and crying low Chorus Repeat second half of Chorus All Broken Hearts Are The Same By Robin and Linda Williams and Jerome Clark 1988 Songs of PolyGram/Brantford Music, BMI It doesn't matter who you may be You can be the richest man in town You can be a big star on T.V. Or a bum just rambling 'round You may think you're the only one Who never knew why she said goodbye Who wishes it weren't dead and done Who sits and drinks and cries Chorus But one tear is just like another One sleepless night's like all the rest One memory of what used to be An aching heart in an aching chest All broken hearts are the same my friend All broken heerts are the same All broken hearts are the same my friend All broken hearts are the same An old friend call me on the phone He said she left and never looked behind He couldn't stand to be alone With her stlll on his mind Oh I'd heard all those words before I knew just what he would say Cause I said them all a hundred times or more Since she walked out that day Chorus Repeat second half of Chorus Leaving This Land By Robin and Linda Williams and Jerome Clark 1988 Songs of PolyGram/Brantford Music BMI There's a dead stillness around the place Like the calm that falls in a twister's wake Precious memories abound Of loved ones Iying in family graves And working fields now turned to waste And this old weathered house that's falling down Chorus I've stood with you as long as I can stand It tears me all apart, Mama it breaks my heart To be leaving this land This farm took everything you had I watched it come between you and Dad All he left behind was you and me The day he came to understand That life don't care much about our plans He moved on like a leaf blown from a tree Chorus The wolves are howling at our door We can't hold them back any more The dreams are gone, they can't be found For this old house and this tired ground Handing me the deed don't set you free It's time for us to turn the page On the sorrows of this sorry age It's time to leave behind this lone prairie Chorus Annie By Robin and Linda Williams and Jerome Clark 1988 Songs of PolyGram/Brantford Music BMI We rode the cool green earth We were like the summer breeze Back when all the world was wild We drifted like the tumblin weeds Chorus Annie, the time does flow Annie, so long ago We shuffled like the buffalo And you sure rocked your Daddy-O Same old smoke blows up the draw And the same old fires they rage We can stlll both push it hard But Annie I can feel my age Chorus Annie play your mandolin Like you did when we were young But it was a different world back then And we sang a different song Chorus Hand me down my bridle and reins And my colt six shooter gun We will fade into the haze We wlll ride into the sun Repeat Chorus |
Riding On The Santa Fe By Robln & Linda Williams & Jerome Clark 1988 Songs of PolyGram/Brantford Music, BMI I woke up with the blues this mormng Said, "Man, I got to get away" And if you ever come looking for me l'll be riding on the Santa Fe Hey, hey, look away Hey, hey, riding on the Santa Fe When you flirt, you dont care who you hurt Love is just a game you play Yeah! You get amused while I get used So I'm leaving on the Santa Fe Hey, hey, look away Hey, hey, riding on the Santa Fe Up town down town using my name Telling secrets without any shame You know I love you I thought you felt the same Hey, hey Baby, there's a hundred miles 'tween the truth and anything you say And you can find yourself another fool 'cause I m leaving on the Santa Fe Hey, hey, look away Hey, hey, riding on the Santa Fe Up town down town using my name Telling secrets without any shame You know I love you I thought you felt the same Hey, hey Woke up with the blues this morning I packed my traveling case And when that whistle blows on the 8:05 I'll be riding on the Santa Fe Hey, hey, look away Hey, hey, riding on the Santa Fe Pine County By Robin Williams & Jerome Clark 1981 The New Music Tlmes, Inc.ÑBMI Pine County's seen hard times Just look at the lines on their faces Hanging around the county courthouse Man, you can see some real sad cases I can't stand to see them all 'Cause they're all true friends of mine Truth to tell my pockets are bare And I don't see a rainbow sign Chorus: Darlin' Jenny what have you to say Are you gonna come or are you gonna stay I got an itch, I gotta scratch I'm gonna walk in the wind to see what I can catch I'm gonna walk in the wind to see what I can catch Everyday I try to leave I pack up the night before Then every sunrise will find me here But this time I'm walking out the door Chorus Repeat first verse Stonewall Country by Robin & Linda Willliams 1985 Llme Klln Arts, Inc. & The New Music Tlmes, Inc.ÑBMI I make my home In Stone Wall Country Down a crooked lane Where the fields steep and rocky Took such toil to claim Now the plows run deep in Stone Wall Country The ground gives back good yields And the rocks that blocked the furrows So worrisome to wield Stand in fences round the field Chorus: I may leave the Shenandoah But shell never leave my heart Stone Wall Country Clear-eyed daughter of the stars Stone Wall Country Clear-eyed daughter of the stars Since I left my home in Stone Wall Country I have but one concern That I wlll never get back home To see the seasons turn Or the sun go down on Stone Wall Country Pink and flaming red With the trees all silhouetted Against the mountain's crest Just over to the west Chorus I hope to quit this world in Stone Wall Country And as the years roll 'round My bones will turn to limestone And my soul will look down On the blue haze hills of Stone Wall Country And on the Valley green To watch the golden fields of Autumn Turn to Winter white end clean And then blossom into Spring Across The Blue Mountains Traditional, arranged and adapted by Robin & Linda Wllllams 1988 Southern Melody Pub. Co.ÑBMI One morning, one morning, one morning in May I heard a married man to a young girl say Go dress up pretty Katy, and come go with me Across the Blue Mountains to the Allegheny I'll buy you a horse, love, and a saddle to ride I'll buy myself another to ride by your side We'll stop at every tavern, we'll drlnk when we're dry Across the Blue Mounteins go my Katy and I Well, up spoke her mother and angry was she then Saying Daughter, oh dear Daughter, he's a married man And there's young men a plenty more handsome than he Let him take his own wife to the Allegheny Oh Mother, oh Mother, he's the man of my heart And wouldn't it be a dreadtul thing if we should have to part For I'd envy every woman who I'd ever see Go cross the Blue Mounteins to the Allegheny We left before daybreak on a buckskin and a roan Past tall shivering pines where the mockingbirds moan Past dark cabin windows where eyes never see Across the Blue Mountains to the Allegheny |
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