Out of Hand/Your Place or Mine (CD - 2001)

Personnel includes: Gary Stewart (vocal, acoustic guitar, keyboards); Jerry Shook (acoustic & electric guitars); Ray Edenton, Jerry Stembridge, Chip Young, Harold Bradley (acoustic guitar); Reggie Young, Dale Sellers (guitar); Weldon Myrick, Pete Drake, Leo LeBlanc (steel guitar); Booby Thompson (banjo); Josh Graves (dobro); Buck White (mandolin); Tommy Williams (fieddle); Charlie McCoy, Mickey Raphael (harmonica); Hargus Robbins, David Briggs (keyboards); Henry Strzelecki (bass); Buddy Harmon, Kenneth Buttrey (drums); Emmylou Harris. Nicolette Larsen, Rodney Crowell; The Jordanaires (background vocals)

Includes liner notes by John Morthland.

All tracks have been digitally remastered.

Personnel: Jerry Shook (guitar, electric guitar); Harold Bradley (guitar, bass guitar); Chip Young, Jerry Stembridge, Leo LeBlanc, Pete Drake, Ray Edenton, Weldon Myrick, John Hughey (guitar); Larry Byrom, Mac Gayden, Pete Carr, Dale Sellers (electric guitar); Josh Graves (dobro); Buck White (mandolin); Mickey Raphael, Charlie McCoy (harmonica); Herbert Ivey, Hargus "Pig" Robbins, Bobby Wood (keyboards); Kenneth A. Buttrey, Roger Clark , Jerry Carrigan, Jim Isbell, Karl Himmel, Buddy Harman (drums).

Audio Remasterer: Elliott Federman.

Liner Note Author: John Morthland.

This two-fer, which pairs up Stewart's best album (1975's Out of Hand) and a decent similarly themed outing from two years later, serves as a fine intro to both Stewart's mildly outlaw country and one of the best genre albums of the '70s. Your Place or Mine sounds a little tame, as well as a bit flashy, in retrospect, but Hand is a seminal work, traditional in approach and style but with just enough rock & roll attitude to complement the honky tonking. ~ Michael Gallucci minimize