“What’s it worth to sing this song? It’s the question East Tennessee culture keeper and songwriter ES Pearl asks. Listeners wonder why they hadn’t thought of it that way as he shares the way he sees things.” Baggage Flies Free is his answer, and in the footsteps of many early country performers, he’s taken on a pseudonym of his own… The ES is obvious and Pearl is a family name. “My granny, mother and my daughter have Pearl in their name.” Music legend Vernon Dalhart, (Wreck of The Old 97) had one-hundred and thirty pseudonyms and Mark Twain had only one.
This new collection of 13 original songs follows Ed’s 2022 release, Chimney Smoke..featuring again an A-list of Nashville musicians: Kenny Vaughan, Daniel Kimbro, Pete Wasner, John Gardner, Steve Hinson: with singing contributions from Tim O'Brien, Amythyst Kiah, Verlon Thompson and Eugene Wolf (Brother Boys).
Recorded and mixed in Nashville by Sean Sullivan, at The Tractor Shed.
Don’t let your down home be unbroken...
Keep your nose clean for your Mother’s sake…If you don’t like these songs, write some you like.
Coming Down This Road
Willow Green
That I Need You More Than I Have Ever Now
The Place
Fixing This Old Gate
Malcolm Holcombe- For Another Time
See You In the Morning
When Doc Watson Come to Johnson City
This Old Guitar
The Grandest Tail
High In the Rhyme
Will Your Down Home Be Unbroken
It’s Christmas Again - Bonus Track
“What’s it worth to sing this song? It’s the question East Tennessee culture keeper and songwriter ES Pearl asks. Listeners wonder why they hadn’t thought of it that way as he shares the way he sees things.” Baggage Flies Free is his answer, and in the footsteps of many early country performers, he’s taken on a pseudonym of his own… The ES is obvious and Pearl is a family name. “My granny, mother and my daughter have Pearl in their name.” Music legend Vernon Dalhart, (Wreck of The Old 97) had one-hundred and thirty pseudonyms and Mark Twain had only one.
This new collection of 13 original songs follows Ed’s 2022 release, Chimney Smoke..featuring again an A-list of Nashville musicians: Kenny Vaughan, Daniel Kimbro, Pete Wasner, John Gardner, Steve Hinson: with singing contributions from Tim O'Brien, Amythyst Kiah, Verlon Thompson and Eugene Wolf (Brother Boys).
Recorded and mixed in Nashville by Sean Sullivan, at The Tractor Shed.
Don’t let your down home be unbroken...
Keep your nose clean for your Mother’s sake…If you don’t like these songs, write some you like.
Coming Down This Road
Willow Green
That I Need You More Than I Have Ever Now
The Place
Fixing This Old Gate
Malcolm Holcombe- For Another Time
See You In the Morning
When Doc Watson Come to Johnson City
This Old Guitar
The Grandest Tail
High In the Rhyme
Will Your Down Home Be Unbroken
It’s Christmas Again - Bonus Track
