Silver Jubilee

**Silver Jubilee** is a part-studio, part-live 2-CD album released by Riders In The Sky on November 11th, 2003 in honor of their 25th anniversary.

## Track List

### Disk One

1. *Texas Plains*
2. *Cool Water*
3. *Back In The Saddle Again*
4. *Compadres In The Old Sierra Madres*
5. *Sidekick Heaven*
6. *Blue Bonnet Lady*
7. *Ghost Riders In The Sky*
8. *The Line Rider*
9. *We're Burnin' Moonlight*
10. *Phantom of The Chuckwagon*
11. *La Malaguena*
12. *Here Comes The Santa Fe*
13. *The Arms of My Love*
14. *The Salting of The Slug*
15. *Way Out There*
16. *Tumbling Tumbleweeds*

### Disk Two

\* Titles marked with an asterisk are from the "Live At The Renaissance" selection

1. *Ride Cowboy Ride*
2. *Ringo*
3. *Biscuit Blues*
4. *Lonely Yukon Stars*
5. *That's How The Yodel Was Born*
6. *Blue Montana Skies*
7. *Woody's Roundup*
8. *Reincarnation/Sundown In Santa Fe*
9. *My Oklahoma*
10. *Wah-Hoo\**
11. *Early Autumn\**
12. *Rawhide\**
13. *You're Wearing Out Your Welcome, Matt\**
14. *Questions\**
15. *There's A Blue Sky Way Out Yonder\**
16. *Riders Radio Theater Medley/So Long, Saddle Pals*
17. *The Cowboy Way*

## Credits

### Riders In The Sky

* Ranger Doug (Douglas B. Green) - Guitar, vocals
* Too Slim (Fred LaBour) - Bunkhouse bass, face, vocals
* Woody Paul (Paul Chrisman) - Fiddle, vocals
* Joey The Cow-Polka King (Joey Miskulin) - Accordion, percussion, keyboard, vocals

### Additional Musicians

* Richard O'Brien - Guitars
* Jake Chrisman - Mandolin (on *Blue Bonnet Lady*)
* David Hoffner - Keyboards (on *The Cowboy Way*)
* John Gardner - Percussion (on *Phantom of The Chuckwagon*)

### Studio

* Joey Miskulin - Producer, recorder
* David Grisman - Executive Producer
* Craig Miller - Executive Producer
* Brent Truitt - Recorder
* Tim Robers - Recorder
* Steve Ledet - Additional recorder
* Josh Rowe - Recorder ("Live At The Renaissance" material)
* Dan Rudin - Mixer (The Musicwagon Studio)
* Steve Ledet - Mixer ("Live At The Renaissance" material)
* Bob Bullock - Mixer (The Cowboy Way only)

### Other

* Dennis Carney - Cover art
* Brenna Ramirez - Album designer

## Recording Dates

*\*Titles marked with an asterisk did not make it to the final release.*

* August 18th, 2001 (The Renaissance Center; Dickson, TN)
	+ *Wah-Hoo*
	+ *Early Autumn*
	+ *Rawhide*
	+ *You're Wearing Out Your Welcome, Matt*
	+ *Questions*
	+ *There's A Blue Sky Way Out Yonder*

* October 29th, 2001 (Brent Truitt Studio; Nashville, TN)
	+ *Here Comes The Santa Fe*
	+ *Way Out There*
	+ *Woody's Roundup*
	+ *How Does He Yodel?*\*
* October 30th, 2001 (Brent Truitt Studio; Nashville, TN)
	+ *Texas Plains*
	+ *Cool Water*
	+ *That's How The Yodel Was Born*
	+ *Blue Bonnet Lady*
	+ *Ride Cowboy Ride*
* October 31st, 2001 (Brent Truitt Studio; Nashville, TN)
	+ *Lonely Yukon Stars*
	+ *The Line Rider*
	+ *Ringo*
	+ *Reincarnation*
	+ *Tumbling Tumbleweeds*
	+ *The Arms of My Love*
* November 15th, 2001 (Brent Truitt Studio; Nashville, TN)
	+ *Ghost Riders In The Sky*
	+ *My Oklahoma*
	+ *La Malaguena*
* November 16th, 2001 (Brent Truitt Studio; Nashville, TN)
	+ *Sidekick Heaven*
	+ *Phantom of The Chuckwagon*
	+ *Sundown In Santa Fe*
	+ *Compadres In The Old Sierra Madres*

## Liner Notes

*We consider our 25th anniversary to be a glorious opportunity to present an album of our best known songs - plus some special bonus tracks. There are several very good reasons for this; the first is that many of these often requested tunes - "The Line Rider," "Sidekick Heaven," and "La Malaguena", for example - are on albums which are no longer in print. The second reason is that we have developed as artists over the years. Many of these songs, both the classics and the originals, were recorded over 20 years ago. Since then, we have become better singers and musicians; we also play better instruments through better microphones. Plus, we have the golden accordion, voice, and ears of Joey the Cowpolka King, as well as his legendary production skills, which we did not have in our early years. Now, we also have the sympathetic guitar skills of Rich O'Brien who accompanies us on this record. Many of these tunes have evolved through the years, and the way we play them now varies markedly from our "original" recordings in tempo, harmony stacking, and instrumental accompaniment enhanced by Joey's voice. For all these reasons, we present new renditions of our most requested songs. We only wish we could have done 25 more! Since we included re-recordings of songs predominantly from the early years of our career or on albums which are now out of print, we feel that our current sound is well captured on the later Rounder albums which are still readily available. Also, we tried to mix classics with the originals that people most often ask for, the formula we've striven for throughout our career. These are truly our "greatest hits" if we can be said to have had anything like a hit in our career, and we hope you enjoy these fresh new arrangements the way we play them now.*

- Ranger Doug

## Trivia

* The material from the "Live At The Renaissance Center" tracks come from a scrapped concert film recording.