Sandman (Remastered) Herb Pedersen

• 1 Sandman 03:04
• 2 When She Makes Love 02:57
• 3 Cora Is Gone 03:49
• 4 Is That the Way to Love You 03:18
• 5 Fair and Tender 02:55
• 6 Tennessee Sal 02:29
• 7 About Love Again 04:05
• 8 Bring Back the Smile 03:11
• 9 My Little Man 02:22
• 10 If I Lose 02:57
• Total Runtime 31:07

Info zu Sandman (Remastered)

"Herb Pedersen and producer Mike Post double-down the slickness on Sandman, delivered just a year after Southwest. Pedersen records the Carter Family's "Fair and Tender Ladies," but its delicate harmonies are the outlier on an album that's thoroughly LA. A better indication of Sandman's sensibility is the closing cover of Ralph Stanley's "If I Lose," a far tighter rendition than the one the Band cut a few years earlier; a version highlighted by stacked harmonies and a great bit of slide guitar from Lowell George that brings it close to Little Feat territory. Despite this and the hiccupping bass and clavinets of "Tennessee Sal," Sandman is rarely funky: it basks in the warmth of its own gloss. Hints of country-rock are still here -- that's at Pedersen's foundation -- but Post's production turns the pleasing originals into something as easy to digest as Firefall. In retrospect, it's easy to see why Pedersen ran from this slickness -- he retreated to bluegrass not long afterward -- and even if it's not a pure reflection of his strengths or sensibilities, Sandman remains a nice bit of '70s SoCal soft rock." (Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AMG)

Herb Pedersen, acoustic and electric guitars, vocals, harmony vocals
Larry Carlton, electric guitar
Lowell George, slide guitar
Dan Ferguson, electric guitar
Chris Smith, steel guitar
Josh Graves, Dobro
Herb Pedersen, banjo
Ray Park, fiddle
Leland Sklar, bass
Mike Baird, drums
Mike Post, Moog synthesizer
Larry Muhoberac, keyboards
Norm Benno, English horn
Gary Coleman, percussion
Linda Ronstadt, harmony vocals

Digitally remastered

Herb Pedersen
A longtime staple of the bluegrass scene, singer and multi-instrumentalist Herb Pedersen was born April 27, 1944, in Berkeley, CA. The child of a policeman, he was introduced to country music at numerous Bay Area folk festivals, finding kindred spirits in fellow aspiring musicians like Jerry Garcia (who went on to form the Grateful Dead) and David Nelson (later of the New Riders of the Purple Sage). In his mid-teens, Pedersen formed his first bluegrass band, the Pine Valley Boys.

In 1961, Pedersen began working in Nashville, performing on Carl Tipton's Bluegrass TV Show. After a 1963 stint with David Grisman's Smokey Grass Boys, he joined the veteran bluegrass performers Vern and Ray as a singer and five-string banjo player. His work with the duo brought him to the attention of Earl Scruggs, who in 1967 tapped Pedersen to fill in for him during his recovery from a hip operation. A year later, he replaced Doug Dillard in the Dillards for 1968's Wheatstraw Suite and 1970's Copperfields.

After leaving the Dillards, Pedersen remained in Los Angeles, where he became a highly regarded session player, working with the likes of Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Kris Kristofferson, and John Prine. After spending the first half of the decade in the studio, in 1975 Pedersen joined Jackson Browne's tour, and the following year released his first solo LP, Southwest. After 1976's Sandman, he joined John Denver's band from 1977 to 1980 and continued his extensive session and production work well into the next decade before cutting a third solo effort, Lonesome Feeling, in 1984. He also ventured into scoring television programs, composing the music for series including The Rockford Files, Kojak, The Dukes of Hazzard, and The A-Team.

Throughout the years, Pedersen had occasionally reunited with his old friend Chris Hillman, who had made his mark as a member of the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers. In 1986, the two musicians again joined forces to form the Desert Rose Band, a highly successful country-rock act which scored a series of major hits. After the group disbanded in 1993, a year later Pedersen founded the bluegrass outfit the Laurel Canyon Ramblers, which released the LP Rambler's Blues in 1995. The group's second effort, Blue Rambler 2, followed in 1996, as did Bakersfield Bound, another reunion between Pederson and Hillman.

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