Good Causes


Good Causes is the sixth album from folk singer Gamble Rogers.

Track listing

  1. "The Masterbuilders" - 2:09
  2. "Good Causes" - 7:04
  3. "Long Legged Woman" - 2:07
  4. "Bed to Breakfast" - 5:13
  5. "Home Grown Lucifer " - 3:01
  6. "Blood Mountain" - 3:52
  7. "Jury Man Blues" - 2:42
  8. "Alabaster Sally" - 2:13
  9. "Mama Blue" - 2:38
  10. "Dance Hall Gals" - 4:17
  11. "Saturday's Luck" - 2:54
  12. "Color Becoming Grace" - 2:38
  13. "Black Label Blues " - 2:35
  14. "Doris" - 4:18
  15. "Cairo Lament" - 5:06
  16. "The Girl From Stoney Lonesome 2:36
  17. "Margaret and The Dutchman 4:19

    Credits

Produced by Charles Steadham for the Gamble Rogers Memorial Foundation

Digitially Recorded, Edited & Mastered: Ray Valla, Mirror Image Recording Studios, Gainesville, Florida

Recording Engineer: Harry Monkhorst

Photography: Spencer A. Weiner, Randy Batista

Liner Notes: Harold Fethe

Research: Andria Phillips

Graphics: Paula Rosen, Anything Graphic, Gainesville, FL

Oklawaha Records Logo by: Rob Blount

Doyle Grisham: Acoustic lead and rhythm guitar, electric guitar, dobro, pedal steel.

Buddy Spicher: Fiddle.

Joe Osborn: Bass

Larry Londin: Drums

Nomenclature

The album's name is derived from a friend of Rogers' who told of his experience with his love, a "truck stop queen". When the friend went off on business, his love would associate in a non-faithful manner with men traveling through her town. When the friend asked to his love, "How can you so profane our precious love?" she replied, "Aw, Honey, it ain't nothin.' I just do them old boys for good causes."

Archival Note

, Rogers' manager and friend converted tapes where the original music resided into first-generation source material for this CD. Ray Valla, the album's recording engineer, applied a rescue technique that, through baking, temporarily re-laminates separated layers of aging audio tapes.