Bobby Ross

Back to Blue Jeans Again

1988 · Constellation VOA-1 · Nashville, Tennessee

Back to Blue Jeans Again – Bobby Ross (Sleeve (front))

Artist
Bobby Ross
Title
Back to Blue Jeans Again
Release
Voice of America
Year
1988
Label
Constellation # VOA-1
Format
LP · Album
Language
English
Country
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Songwriter
George Jeffrey
Genre
Country · Country
Primary theme
Post-War

Annotation

All songs on the album - need to catalog.

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Lyrics

English: Then I fought in the Asian War and that cost me some of my friends Now all of those friends are like I was before And I'm back To Bluejeans Again.

Notes

Constellation, ℗ and © 1988 Constellation, 4741 Trousdale Drive, Nashville, TN 37220. The front cover shows Bobby Ross in a cowboy hat beside the bronze figures of a soldiers' memorial; the back shows the inscription of the Vietnam Veterans Park memorial ("From 1961 to 1975, more than 49,000 Tennesseans served in Southeast Asia…") and a "Seal / LRRP / Big Red One" triangle emblem. Credits: Don Hoffman, executive producer; Bobby Ross, producer and lead vocals; Mike Stidolph and Dick Bradley, associate producers; musicians include Eddie Bayers and Michael Young (drums), Mark O'Connor (fiddle, mandolin, mandola), Sonny Garrish (steel guitar, dobro), Bela Fleck (banjo), Terry Lee McMillan (harmonica), Reggie Young and Brent Rowan (guitars), Willie Rainsford (piano); background vocals include Stella Parton (courtesy of Airborne Records); photographer Mike Allen; engineer Jeff West. Ross…

About the artist

Born 4 September 1947, California, USA. Currently Iselton, California, USA Served with the Air-O-Rifle Platoon, 2/17 Cavalry, 101st Airborne Division, I Corps, South Vietnam, in 1968, commissioned through OCS (sleeve dedication).

Themes

Military · Vet

From the release Voice of America

In collections

US Military & Veteran Songs