The Seldom Scene
The Seldom Scene is an American bluegrass band formed in 1971 in Bethesda, Maryland.
Early history
The band formed out of the weekly jam sessions in the basement of banjo player Ben Eldridge. These sessions included John Starling on guitar and lead vocals, Mike Auldridge on Dobro and baritone vocals, and Tom Gray on bass. Then mandolinist John Duffey, who had previously played with the Country Gentlemen, was invited to the jam sessions at the time when Auldridge arranged for the group to play as a performing band.
Members' background
Each of the band members had a job during the week; Duffey repaired musical instruments, Eldridge was a mathematician, Starling a physician, Auldridge a graphic artist, and Gray a cartographer with National Geographic. They agreed to play one night a week at local clubs, perform occasionally at concerts and festivals on weekends, and make records. The band's first home scene was the Red Fox Inn in Bethesda, Maryland, where they spent six years before starting weekly performances at The Birchmere Music Hall in Alexandria, Virginia.
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ALBUMS
- Different Roads released: 2006
- Creators of Urban Bluegrass released: 2002
- Scene It All released: 2000
- Dream Scene released: 1996
- Scene 20: 20th Anniversary Concert released: 1993
- 15th Anniversary Celebration: Live at the Kennedy Center released: 1993
- Live at the Cellar Door released: 1992
- Scenic Roots released: 1990
- A Change of Scenery released: 1988
- The Best of The Seldom Scene released: 1987
- After Midnight released: 1981
- Baptizing released: 1978
- The New Seldom Scene Album released: 1976
- Act Two released: 1973
- Act 1 released: 1972
- 1985-10-28: Osaka, Japan released:
- 1992-07-05 (Late): Eno River Festival, Durham, NC, USA released:
- 1995-12-31: The Birchmere, Alexandria, VA, USA released:
- 1994-09-03 (Late Set): Bass Mountain Bluegrass Festival, Bass Mountain Music Park, Snow Camp, NC, USA released:
- 1994-09-03 (Early Set): Bass Mountain Bluegrass Festival, Bass Mountain Music Park, Snow Camp, NC, USA released:
- 1982-02-06: Departmental Auditorium, Smithsonian Museum, Washington, DC, USA released:
- 1974-03-09: Lisner Auditorium, Washington, DC, USA released:
- 1995-01-21: Ambassador Theatre, Pasadena, CA, USA (Early & Late set) released:
- 2000-05-20: Gettysburg, PA, USA released:
- 1972-06-03: Indian Springs Campground, Hagerstown, MD, USA released:
- 1972-06-03: Indian Springs Campground, Hagerstown, MD, USA released:
- 2003-03-17 (Early Show): Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival, Gettysburg, PA, USA released:
- 2004-12-31: The Birchmere, Alexandria, VA, USA released:
- 1994-08-07: Rockygrass Bluegrass Festival, Lyons, CO, USA released:
- 1994-07-17 (1:10 P.M. Set): Winterhawk Bluegrass Festival, Ancramdale, NY, USA released:
- 1994-07-17 (3:50 P.M. Set): Winterhawk Bluegrass Festival, Ancramdale, NY, USA released:
- 1993-04-24: Booker T. Washington Center, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA released:
- 1993-02-28: Arts Center, Carrboro, NC, USA released:
- 1990-07-20 (11:15 P.M. - 12:00 A.M.): Winterhawk Bluegrass Festival, Rothvoss Farm, Ancramdale, NY, USA released:
- 1990-07-20 (4:55. 5:40 P.M.): Winterhawk Bluegrass Festival, Rothvoss Farm, Ancramdale, NY, USA released:
- 1990-04-01: Arts & Science Center, Hickory, NC, USA released:
- 1982-02-06: Departmental Auditorium, Smithsonian Museum, Washington, DC, USA released:
- At the Scene released:
- Old Train released:
- Live At The Cellar Door released:
- Like We Used to Be released:
- Act 3 released:
- Act Four released:
- Blue Ridge released:
Different Roads
Released 2006- Different Roads
- Old Train
- Walk Through This World With Me
- Gardens and Memories
- Wait a Minute
- Rebels Ye Rest
- Last Train From Poor Valley
- I've Lost You
- Keep Me From Blowin' Away
- Reason for Being
- If That's the Way You Feel
- Easy Ride From Good Times to the Blues
- Pictures From Life's Other Side
- Pan American
15th Anniversary Celebration: Live at the Kennedy Center
Released 1993- Sitting on Top of the World
- Big Train From Memphis
- Lorena
- Dark as a Dungeon
- Blue Ridge
- Raised by the Railroad Line
- You Don't Know My Mind
- Drifting Too Far From the Shore
- Those Memories of You
- Keep Me From Blowing Away
- Wheels
- Carolyn at the Broken Wheel Inn
- If I Needed You
- Rose of Old Kentucky
- I Couldn't Find My Walking Shoes
- Working on a Building
- Say You Lied
- High on a Hilltop
- The Sweetest Gift
- Take Me in Your Lifeboat
Live at the Cellar Door
Released 1992- Doing My Time
- California Cottonfields
- Band Intros
- Panhandle Country
- Muddy Waters
- Rawhide
- Baby Blue
- City of New Orleans
- Grandfather's Clock
- The Fields Have Turned Brown
- Hit Parade of Love
- Will the Circle Be Unbroken
- Pickaway
- Dark Hollow
- Small Exception of Me
- If I Were a Carpenter
- Old Gray Bonnet
- C & O Canal
- Georgia Rose
- Colorado Turnaround
- He Rode All the Way to Texas
- White Line
- Rider
1985-10-28: Osaka, Japan
- Calfornia Cotton Fields
- Muddy Waters
- Hello Mary Lou
- Wait a Minute
- Wake Up Sweetheart
- The Weary Pilgrim
- The Small Exception of Me
- When the Girl I Know Gets Back in Town
- Alabama Jubalee
- Heaven
- Paradise
- Song for Life
- Georgia Rose / [tape flip]
- Georgia Rose (continued)
- Fox on the Run
- Open Up the Window Noah
- New Camptown Races
- Bringing Mary Home
- I Know You Rider
- Working on a Building
- Will the Circle Be Unbroken
1995-12-31: The Birchmere, Alexandria, VA, USA
- Big Train From Memphis
- Grandpa Get Your Guitar
- Wait a Minute
- The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise
- Workin' on a Building
- This Morning at Nine
- Blue Ridge
- [band membership change]
- Carolina Star
- Hickory Wind
- Sled Ride
- Like We Used to Do
- [band membership change]
- Breaking New Ground
- Muddy Water
- Say You Lied
- Long Black Veil
- West Texas Wind
- Have Mercy on My Soul
1994-09-03 (Late Set): Bass Mountain Bluegrass Festival, Bass Mountain Music Park, Snow Camp, NC, USA
1994-09-03 (Early Set): Bass Mountain Bluegrass Festival, Bass Mountain Music Park, Snow Camp, NC, USA
- [tuning] / [introduction]
- Breaking New Ground
- Don't the Road Look Rough and Rocky
- This Morning at Nine
- Lorena
- I May Be Your Friend
- Muddy Waters
- [band introductions]
- Mulenburg County
- Hickory Wind
- Georgia Rose
- House of Gold
- The Spanish Grass
- Have Mercy on Your Soul
- [crowd noise]
- How Mountain Girls Can Love
1974-03-09: Lisner Auditorium, Washington, DC, USA
- [introduction]
- I Know You Rider
- Mean Mother Blues
- Band Introductions
- Sing Me Back Home
- Billy in the Lowground
- It's All Over Now Baby Blue
- Cannonball Blues
- Paradise
- House of Gold
- Tennessee Stud
- Last Train From Poor Valley
- Hit Parade of Love
- What Am I Doing Hangin' Round
- Working on a Building
- Foggy Mountain Breakdown
- Hello Mary Lou
- City of New Orleans
- Grandfather's Clock
2000-05-20: Gettysburg, PA, USA
- [introduction] / This Morning at Nine
- Blue and Lonesome
- Love of the Mountains
- Body and Soul
- [band introductions] / Walking the Dog
- Walk Through This World With Me
- Paradise
- Last Train From Poor Valley
- Duncan & Brady
- A Small Exception of Me
- I'll Be No Stranger There
- Sittin' on Top of the World
- Another Lonesome Morning
1994-08-07: Rockygrass Bluegrass Festival, Lyons, CO, USA
- [introduction]
- Breaking New Ground
- Don't the Road Look Rough and Rocky
- Georgia Rose
- Muddy Waters
- Sunrise
- Like We Used to Do
- [band introductions]
- She's More to Be Pitied
- Blue Ridge
- House of the Rising Sun / Walk Don't Run
- Working on a Building
- Have Mercy on My Soul
- Treasures Untold
- This Morning at Nine
1993-02-28: Arts Center, Carrboro, NC, USA
- Sitting on Top of the World
- Raised by the Railroad Line
- [introductions]
- House of the Rising Sun (instrumental)
- Highway of Pain
- Hickory Wind
- Gardens of Memories
- Walk Through This World With Me
- Little Georgia Rose
- Muddy Water
- Lord Have Mercy on My Soul
- Old Train
- [untitled instrumental]
- House of Gold
- Take Me in Your Lifeboat
- Spanish Grass
- Lorena
- Working on the Building
- Out Among the Stars
- Carolina Star
- I Know You Rider
- Wait a Minute
1990-07-20 (11:15 P.M. - 12:00 A.M.): Winterhawk Bluegrass Festival, Rothvoss Farm, Ancramdale, NY, USA
Live At The Cellar Door
- Doing My Time
- California Cottonfields
- Panhandle Country
- Muddy Waters
- Rawhide
- Baby Blue
- City of New Orleans
- The Fields Have Turned Brown
- Hit Parade of Love
- Will The Circle Be Unbroken
- Pickaway
- Dark Hollow
- Small Exception of Me
- If I Were A Carpenter
- Old Gray Bonnet
- C & O Canal
- Georgia Rose
- Colorado Turnaround
- He Rode All The Way To Texas
- White Line
- Rider
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Act Two
by: Seldom SceneWell it was good one time everything was mighty fine
The coal temples roared day and night
But things they got slow for no reason that I know
And ill winds they hove into sight
The mines all closed down everybody laid around
There wasn't very much left to do
Except stand in that line to get your ration script on time
And woman I could see it killin' you
Now the soft new snows of December
Lightly fall my cabin 'round And the last train from Poor Valley
Takin' brown haired Becky Richmond bound
It's been a comin' on and on lord soon you would be gone
Leavin' crossed your mind every day
Then you said to me things are bad back home you see
I guess I better be on my way
Well I should blame you know but I never could somehow
A miner's wife you weren't cutout to be
It wasn't what you thought just some dreams that you'd bought
When you left home and ran away with me
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