Dan Fogelberg - High Country Snows (1985) Vinyl LP • Go Down Easy, Vince Gill

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Vinyl plays nicely (play-graded). Gate-fold cover has light scuffing (front/back/inner-gate); a few creases (front/back). Inner-sleeve is original (photo/credits). Spine is easy-to-read with mild-wear. Minor shelf-wear along top/bottom-edge and corners. Opening is crisp with signs of light use and divots. (Not a cut-out.)

Tracks:

1. Down The Road
2. Mountain Pass
3. Sutter's Mill
4. Wolf Creek
5. High Country Snows
6. The Outlaw
7. Shallow Rivers
8. Go Down Easy
9. Wandering Shepherd
10. Think Of What You've Done
11. The Higher You Climb

About The Record:

High Country Snows, by American singer/songwriter Dan Fogelberg, reached No. 30 on Billboard 200 and No. 23 on Country Albums. It featured two hit singles: Go Down Easy (No. 6 AC, No. 85 Hot 100, No. 56 Country) and Down the Road (No. 33 Hot Country Singles and Tracks). A couple of years after the pop hits stopped, Dan Fogelberg took this detour down the bluegrass/traditional acoustic music road. The result is a fine collection of mostly original songs, an album that holds up better than much of his earlier, better-known work. Accompanied by some of Nashville's top studio aces, Fogelberg sings of the California gold rush in the beautiful Sutter's Mill, accompanies Doc Watson, Jerry Douglas and David Grisman on the instrumental bluegrass workout Wolf Creek, and leads his all-star group speeding through several other bluegrass-flavored rave-ups. There's a touch of gospel here as well, with Vince Gill and Ricky Skaggs pitching in on vocal harmonies. By the time of this album's release in the mid-'80s, pop radio was no longer playing the music of mellow singer/songwriters like Fogelberg, but the lovely ballad Go Down Easy found some airplay on contemporary country stations. High Country Snows is a surprising musical high point for Dan Fogelberg.