Louisa Branscomb: Recorded and Performance Discography
RECORDED DISCOGRAPHY
Lyrics and Music by Louisa Branscomb unless otherwise noted
Publishing Millwheel Music (BMI) unless otherwise noted
ALBUMS CONTAINING ORIGINAL MATERIAL BY LOUISA OR LOUISA’S BANDS
from “I’ll Take Love: From the Pen of Louisa Branscomb”
Louisa Branscomb
Compass Records 7 4553 2 March 2011
- I’m Gonna Love You (Louisa Branscomb/Claire Lynch Millwheel Music/Thrill Hill Music BMI)
- I’ll Take Love (Louisa Branscomb/Dale Ann Bradley Millwheel Music)
- Closin’ Nashville Down
- Wearin’ the Blues
- Your Amazing Grace
- State Line
- Surrender
- This Side of Heaven
- Extra Blue
- Stormy Night
- Silence Broke Beyond Repair
- That’s What Texas Was For
- It’s Just Lovin’
from Louisa Branscomb: Time to Write a Song
Lodestar 1993 #005
- Old Familiar Song
- Stormy Night
- This Too Shall Pass
- Train That’s Passed Me By
- Turn It Around
- Feels So Good
- Summertime Waltz
- Steel Rails (Universal/one note pub)
- Hold Me Gently in Your Dreams
- When I See My Savior’s Face
- Blue Cowgirl Song
- Who’s Gonna Carry it On (publishing was originally with Mel so it’s now Universal?)
- It’s Time to Write a Song
From “Fools Gold”
Woodsong Farm Productions 2000:
- Fools Gold
- Matters of the Heart
- Old Virginia Waltz (with Doyle Lawson)
- Wearin’ the Blues
- Just My Heart in my Hand
- One Lonely Night
- Beaver Valley Flood
- Three Hundred Years
- Long Black Train
- Angels in the Snow
- Woodsong (with Jane Baxter)
- Crash and Burn
- Love is a Hands on Thing
- When I Cry
- Stormy Night
from “Steel Rails”
Boot Hill
Millwheel TH-1026
(Recorded at Thunderhill Studios) 1977
- Fair Weather Friend
- Your Memory and I
- Raider’s Revenge
- Sit Down Dear Stranger
- Who’ll Sing for Me (P.D/Louisa Branscomb, Millwheel Music) (arr)
From “Blue Ridge Memories”
Boot Hill
Millwheel TH 1027 1978
- Sweet Virginia
- Blue Ridge Memories
- Breakaway
- Tin Cans and Dishpans
- Goin’ Back to the Homeplace
from Boot Hill: “Fly Soul Away”
Millwheel TH1040 1979
- God Gave Me a Hand
- Fly, Soul, Away
- When I see My Savior’s Face
- Wake Me Up (On that Last Tomorrow)
- Shoreline
- Sit Down Dear Stranger
From: “Gypsy Heart”
Gypsy Heart
Lodestar Productions
1992
- Ain’t Justified
- Forever More
- Steel Rails
- Back to the Homeplace
- Sweet Virginia
- You and I Look Good in Years
- Angels in the Snow
- Shoreline
- Forever More
- Georgia Home
From Louisa Branscomb and Born Gypsy
“Our Own” 1990
Lodestar Productions
- Old Virginia Waltz
(by Louisa Branscomb and Doyle Lawson)
Millwheel/Lawson
- Crash and Burn
Woodsong (w/Jane Baxter)
From: Songs of the Whimple Wood
Louisa Branscomb
Volume 1: Songs Capturing the Magic of Childhood
Chinky-Po Tree 1995
- I’m on My Way to the Whimple Wood
- Song of the Whango-Whee
- Magic Friend
- Dream Star
- I’m Wishing Wishing Wishing
- Night is Falling
- It’s a Long, Long Way (From Here to the Whimple Wood)
- Song of the Flapper-Jacker-Whacker-O
- I’m Keepin’ House for a Dragon and a Mouse
- It Was Wapiti Hoo
- Here in the Whimple Wood
- Day is Done
From Journey: Songs of the Monomyth
Louisa Branscomb
Lodestar Music 1988
- Look Within
- Shoreline
- Just Can’t Hold My Own
- Turn it Around
- When You’re a Dreamer
SELECTED RECORDINGS BY OTHER ARTISTS
Last Soldier Standing (w/ Rebekah Long)
Due for release 2014
History Book of Hearts (w/ Craig Market)
Jeanette Williams
Due for release 2014
End of the Line (w/ Nancy Beaudette)
Due for release 2014
Forgiveless
Nu-Blu “Jesus and Jones”
Nu-Blu 2014
My Silvertone Guitar (Silvertone Guitar)
Nancy Beaudette
“Fa la la”
Moonlit Pond Records 2012 (November)
Wildflowers on the Hill
Janet McGarry
“Just Passing Thru”
Diamond Productions
In Tall Timber
Chordwood
“In Tall Timber”
Chordwood Productions 1996
Woodsong
Louisa Branscomb and Jane Baxter
Bluegrass Bands, Helping Hands Vol. Two: Through the Eyes of a Child 2010
(has bar code)
Lonesome Mountain Bird
Lonesome Redwing
Fly, Fly, Fly
Lonesome Redwing Productions 2009
Fools Gold
Daughters of Bluegrass “Back to the Well”
Blue Circle Records 2008
Steel Rails
Publisher: (Universal/One Note)
The Abeels “Snowflakes and Diamonds”
Beaver Valley Flood
Honeygrass: “Take One”
Honeygrass Productions 2002
Crescent City Flood
Honeygrass
“She’s Running Wild”
Need label and date
Lonely Blows Under Your Door (2006)
Louisa Branscomb/Karen Pendley-Kuykendall (Wynwood Music Co, Inc)
Janet McGarry: “Love and Learn”
Diamond Productions PEI
Steel Rails
John Denver: “All Aboard”
Sony 63412
Old Familiar Song
Nancy Longenecker
“Going Home”
no label 1/24/01
From “Don’t Turn Your Back”
Dale Ann Bradley
Compass Records 2011
Don’t Turn Your Back
Will I Be Good Enough
Music City Queen (w/Dale Ann Bradley)
Ghostbound Train (w Dale Ann Bradley)
(All of the above published by Millwheel Music)
Long Black Train
Jim Hurst “Intrepid”
NN Guido Music 2012
Fontanna Sunset: “I Didn’t See it Coming”
Cold December Wind
Out the Door (w/ Dawn Kenney)
Dawn Kenney: Sing Me Home
Heartroots Music 2012
Heart Roots Music (ASCAP)/Millwheel Music (BMI)
Carolina Hurricane (w/Lorraine Jordan)
Lorraine Jordan and Carolina Road “Carolina Hurricane”
Rural Rhythm Records 2010 Rhy1062
Steel Rails
Lonesome Meadow “Sittin’ on a Sidewalk”
Lonesome Meadow Productions 2011
Think they filed w/Harry Fox
Will I Be Good Enough
Karen Lynne: Shine Your Light
Shoestring 2013 SR 104
Hope Sings
Richard Ciferski
Coming Back for More
2013; Ressurectiongrass Prod.
Feels So Good
(listed as You’ve Got Me Smiling)
The Dunton Sisters “Singing in My Heart”
Dunton Sisters Productions 2003 DS 001
Has bar code
Sweet Virginia
Fontanna Sunset: “Last Rose for Grandpa”
RonDale Productions
Matters of the Heart
Fontanna Sunset: “Last Rose for Grandpa”
Rondale Productions
Lord I’m Blue
Fontanna Sunset: “Last Rose for Grandpa”
RonDale Productions
Last Night I Fell For You (All Over Again)
Fontanna Sunset: “Last Rose for Grandpa”
RonDale Productions
Just My Heart in My Hand
Fontanna Sunset: “Last Rose for Grandpa”
RonDale Productions
Last Rose for Grandpa
Fontanna Sunset: “Last Rose for Grandpa”
RonDale Productions
When I Cry
Louisa Branscomb: “It’s Time to Write a Song”
Cassette version of album by that name
Lodestar #004 1992
Stormy Night
Blue Cowgirl Song
For Every Day That You Die Young
Magic Friend
Sit Down Dear Stranger
Just Can’t Hold My Own
Day is Done
Dear Sister (w/ Claire Lynch)
Claire Lynch: “Dear Sister”
Compass Records 3/29/13 # 7 4610 2
Steel Rails
Broad River “Broad River”
Lonesome Moutain Bird
Kathy Reed and Lonesome Redwing
Steel Rails (Sawgrass/One-Note)
Hope Sings
Richard Ciferski (don’t have the title of project)
Released in 2013
Steel Rails
Personally reported as recorded by over 125 bands
Recorded for You-Tube by over 250 bands
SOME ARTISTS WHO’VE PERFORMED (AND OR RECORDED) LOUISA
John Denver
Claire Lynch
Alison Krauss
Jeanette Williams
Daughters of Bluegrass
Sierra Hull
Chris Thile
Dale Ann Bradley
Kathleen Hatfield
Valerie Smith
Nu-Blu
Rebekah Long
McPeak Brothers
Janet McGarry
The Whites
Dave Peterson
Jim Hurst
Becky Schlegel
Jennifer Strickland
Josh Williams
John Cowan
Frances Mooney and Fontanna Sunset
Broad River
Honeygrass
Tasty Licks
Boot Hill
Gypsy Heart
Louisa Branscomb and Born Gypsy
Richard Cifersky
Dawn Kenney
Nancy Beaudette
Daughters of Bluegrass
Mindy Rakestraw
260 known bands on YouTube: Steel Rails
PERFORMANCE DISCOGRAPHY (Banjo, mandolin, guitar, vocals)
Albums: (banjo, mandolin, or guitar on the following)
Boot Hill “Steel Rails”
Boot Hill “Blue Ridge Memories”
Boot Hill “Fly Soul Away”
Gypsy Heart: “Gypsy Heart”
Louisa Branscomb “Time to Write a Song”
Louisa Branscomb and Born Gypsy “Our Own”
Louisa Branscomb “Songs of the Whimple Wood”
Louisa Branscomb “Fools Gold”
Louisa Branscomb “I’ll Take Love” From the pen of Louisa Branscomb
Fontanna Sunset “Last Rose for Grandpa”
Born Gypsy: Our Own
Guest performances on:
“I’ll Take Love” from the Pen of Louisa Branscomb (mandolin, guitar)
Mark Newton “Follow Me Back to the Fold: A Tribute to Women in Bluegrass” (vocals, co-producer)
Daughters of Bluegrass “Back to the Well” (vocals; songwriter)
Daughters of Bluegrass “Pick it Like a Girl” (vocals)
Dede Vogt “Reckless Angels” (banjo)
Christy Snow “No Doubts, No Fears” (banjo)