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FRONT ROOM MUSIC CATALOG
AN AMERICAN FAMILY ALBUM

Folk, Americana

CREDITS

Jim Stricklan ~ lead vocals, guitar, and harmonica
Greg Lowry ~ dobro, banjo, accordion
Doug Taylor ~ bass, backing vocals
George Coyne ~ rhythm guitar, dobro
Cara Cooke ~ mandolin, harmonica
Mike Fowler ~ fiddle
Julie Adams ~ cello
SOLDIERS JOY (recorded in Lakewood, CO 1980):
Eddie Joe Smith: Billy George’s mandolin
Jim Stricklan, Jack Mathes, & Steve Fulton: guitars


All songs by Jim Stricklan © 2009 Front Room Music / BMI, except:
America the Beautiful by: Katharine Lee Bates and Samuel A. Ward, and
Life’s Railway to Heaven (traditional) - recording used by permission.
Soldier's Joy (traditional)

LINER NOTES

I’m a fifth generation Texan with many ancestors from North Carolina and Tennessee. Ancestors on both sides {Hullums—on my mother’s side and Stricklans—on my father’s side} fought in the Confederate army during the Civil War, and later settled in Texas. As times were hard and jobs scarce, both families seemed to have moved back and forth from east to west Texas during the first half of the Twentieth Century.
Consequently, I claim strong roots in both areas. Although I lived in Denver, Colorado for fifteen years as a young adult, I was born and raised in west Texas, and my wife Leslie and I have lived in central Texas for the past twenty years. I’ve worked on these songs for many, many years and {primarily at my mother’s request} am finally bringing them together with a limited selection of photos as a fitting tribute to my families…our American families.

JS ~ 2009