Midnight Moonlight

This article is about the album by New Riders of the Purple Sage. For the album by Duke Jordan, see Midnight Moonlight (Duke Jordan album). For the 1958 song by M. Howard and L. Erwin, see Johnny Nash. For the 2015 single by Candy Coded, see Moonlight (EP).

Midnight Moonlight is the thirteenth studio album by the New Riders of the Purple Sage, released in 1992 on the Relix Records label.^[1][2][3][4]

Midnight Moonlight
Studio album by New Riders of the Purple Sage
Released	May 12, 1992
Genre	Bluegrass folk
Length	48:06
Label	Relix
Producer	Rusty Gauthier, John Dawson
New Riders of the Purple Sage chronology
Keep On Keepin' On (1989) Midnight Moonlight (1992) The Relix Bay Rock Shop, No. 1 (1992)

Midnight Moonlight features studio recordings of original and cover songs, performed in a style heavily influenced by bluegrass and American folk music. The instrumentation is largely acoustic, with no drums. This is in contrast to most earlier New Riders albums, which emphasized electric country rock.

Track listing

1. "Midnight Moonlight" (Peter Rowan) – (4:10)
2. "Sutter's Mill" (John Dawson) – (3:25)
3. "Charlie's Garden" (Dawson) – (3:23)
4. "All I Remember" (Eric Moll, Karren Pell) – (3:23)
5. "Louisiana Lady" (Dawson) – (4:30)
6. "Ballad of the Deportees" (Woody Guthrie) – (3:23)
7. "Taking It Hard" (Joe New) – (4:26)
8. "Glendale Train" (Dawson) – (5:09)
9. "Change in the Weather" (Dawson) – (4:09)
10. "Diesel on My Tail" (Jim Fagan) – (3:05)
11. "Lonesome L.A. Cowboy" (Rowan) – (8:37)

Personnel

New Riders of the Purple Sage

• John Dawson – acoustic guitar, vocals
• Rusty Gauthier – acoustic guitar, slide guitar, mandolin, fiddle, banjo, dumbek, vocals
• Gary Vogensen – electric guitar, vocals
• Fred Campbell – bass, acoustic guitar

Additional musicians

• Keith Allen – acoustic guitar, slide guitar, vocals
• Norton Buffalo – harmonica, tambourine
• Carolyn Gauthier – vocals
• Bill Laymon – acoustic bass guitar
• Evan Morgan – acoustic guitar
• David Nelson – mandolin, acoustic guitar
• John Pedersen – banjo, uilleann pipes
• Kevin Wimmer – fiddle, Cajun accordion

Production

• Rusty Gauthier, John Dawson – producers
• Rusty Gauthier – recording and mixing