Song:One Way Track
Album:One Way Track
Boone Creek was formed in 1977 by bluegrass legends Ricky Skaggs and Jerry Douglas after they left J.D. Crowe & The New South. Boone Creek only recorded two albums before they split up but bluegrass fans will want to check them out. Skaggs was 23 and Douglas was 20 when they formed Boone Creek. Other members were Wes Golding on guitar and vocals, Terry Baucom on banjo and Steve Bryant on bass. One Way Track is the title track of their second album. Though they cover a lot of bluegrass standards, One Way Track was written and sung by Skaggs and Golding. Boone Creek split up when Skaggs was offered a job with Emmylou Harris and the Hot Band. Of course Skaggs has gone on to great success and today is considered to be a country music and bluegrass legend. Douglas has gone on to similar success. He has recorded solo since 1979 and he has been an in demand Nashville session musician for many years. He has played on hundreds of recordings. Baucom was a founding member of Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver and is also an in demand session musician. After Boone Creek split up, Bryant joined J.D. Crowe & The New South for ten years. He also plays sessions and he worked for QVC for a few years. Unfortunately Wes Golding never had the same success. In the mid 80s, he did front a band with his wife called Sure Fire. But they only recorded one 1986 album. It looks like he quit the music business after that. Here's Boone Creek performing One Way Track on a 1977 episode of the Kentucky Educational Television TV show Bluegrass Bluegrass.
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