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The Whippoorwill is the third studio album by American southern/country rock band Blackberry Smoke. It was released on August 14, 2012 through Southern Ground Records in the North America and on February 17, 2014 through Earache Records in Europe. The latter contained three additional live tracks; "Country Side of Life", "Pretty Little Lie" and ...
The whip-poor-will is also featured in the last line of the chorus of the song "Deeper Than the Holler", a song written by Paul Overstreet and Don Schlitz, and recorded by American country music singer Randy Travis, where the singer's love is stated to be "longer than the song of a whippoorwill". The second verse of the song, "My Home Among the ...
Many musical artists have covered the song: Johnny Cash covered the song on his 1960 album Now, There Was a Song! Johnny Tillotson reached number 89 on the American Billboard charts in 1962. Among the most notable is a version by B. J. Thomas and the Triumphs, who took the song to number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966 and number 2 in Canada ...
Blackberry Smoke is an American country rock band formed in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2000.The lineup consists of lead vocalist and lead guitarist Charlie Starr, lead/rhythm guitarist Paul Jackson, bassist Richard Turner and keyboardist Brandon Still.
The style of the music is "all over the place" and includes a new version of one of his fan's favorite song "Whippoorwill". This CD was recorded in Nashville, TN and in Springfield, MO. In March 2015, Randle Chowning and Larry Lee were inducted into the Missouri Writers Hall of Fame, receiving the coveted Quill Award.
The song is an extended reference to a famed 1870 race down the Mississippi River between two steamboats, the Robert E. Lee and the Natchez.. It imagines a fictional steamboat, the Whippoorwill, captained by "Mr. Steamboat Bill," who is determined to beat the record of the Robert E. Lee.
The First Whippoorwill (1985) Hot Bluegrass, Peter Rowan, Bill Keith, & Jim Rooney (1985) New Moon Rising, Peter Rowan & The Nashville Bluegrass Band (1988) Dust Bowl Children (1990) All on a Rising Day (1991) Awake Me in the New World (1993) Yonder, Peter Rowan and Jerry Douglas (1996) Bluegrass Boy (1996) New Freedom Bell, Druhá Tráva and ...
Chatham County Line, aka "CCL", is an American Americana musical group. Formed in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1999 from members of the band Stillhouse, the band has released ten albums on the Yep Roc label (whom they were linked with by the producer Chris Stamey [1]), and have become popular in Europe [2] as well as their native United States.