Too Close to the Line
1988 · Constellation VOA-1 · Nashville, Tennessee
- Artist
- Bobby Ross
- Title
- Too Close to the Line
- Release
- Voice of America
- Year
- 1988
- Label
- Constellation # VOA-1
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Songwriter
- George Jeffrey, Rick Cooper
- Genre
- Country · Country
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
All songs on the album - need to catalog.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Vietnam is ancient history to the young men of today For those of us a little older - the scar's too deep to go away Kids watch "Rambo" or TopGun" and dream of goin' off to war
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
From the release Voice of America