Catalog Number(s):
APL1-1041 (Stereo LP)

Released: May, 1975
Peaked: #45 Billboard country chart.

Recorded: January 1975 at RCA Victor Studio, Nashville, TN
Producer: Billy Davis
Recording Engineers: Chuck Seitz & Bill Vandevort
Recording Technicians: Bubba Campbell & Mike Shockley

Musicians:
Ron Oates – Keyboards
Bobby Thompson, Dale Sellers & Kenny O’Dell* — Rhythm guitar
Henry Strzelecki & Mike Leech — Bass
Bucky Barrett — Lead Guitar
Buddy Spicher — Violin & Fiddle
Terry McMillan — Harmonica
Weldon Myrick — Dobro
Buddy Emmons & Weldon Myrick — Steel guitar
Byron Metcalf — Drums and Percussion
Vocal Accompaniment: The Nashville Edition & +The Jordanaires

*String Arrangements: D. Bergen White

Photography: Randy Miller Studio
Art Direction: David Hogan, The Grafe

Special Thanks: Larry Barr for the steak and biscuits and scotch and Coca-Cola and to the people of McCann-Erickson for being so fantastic to work with.

Singles Released From Album:
PB-10269 Rollin’ In Your Sweet Sunshine / Carolina Cousins – 03-75

Side One

• 1. Carolina Cousins+ (Billy Backer – Rod McBrien)
• 2. This Stranger My Little Girl (Ruby VanNoy – Ann Burns – Barbara Fairchild)
• 3. I’m Your Country Girl (Dottie West – Bill West)
• 4. Destroy Me Again (Dottie West – James Marshall)
• 5. Beautiful Way To Live (Ben Peters)

Side Two

• 6. Route 65 To Nashville (Billy Backer – Rod McBrien)
• 7. Back Home Again (John Denver)
• 8. Country Sunshine*+ (Dottie West – Bill Davis)
• 9. Rock’n Roll Drummer In A Country Girl’s Band (Dottie West)
• 10. Rollin’ In Your Sweet Sunshine (Bob Morrison – Jay M. Harris)

Reviews

Liner Notes

There are lots of singers I enjoy hearing. But I don’t really believe them. Dottie West, I believe. The tears in her voice are real, at least they are to me. And when she sings about Country Sunshine it feels warm on the back of my neck. I don’t have a teenager daughter, but I now know exactly how it feels to love and not understand one. I learned from the way Dottie sings a song in this album. It’s called This Stranger, My Little Girl. I’ve listened to all of Dottie’s albums over the years. And it seems to me they get better and better as they come along. In fact some day very soon I’m going to write her a song called “Country Wine.” Because she’s the only singer I know who gets sweeter as time passes. This particular collection of songs is a musical trip, literally and figuratively. But it doesn’t waste much time with where the trip starts. It’s where it ends up that counts. And that’s in The Country, where “supper’s on the stove” and Carolina Cousins are waiting. That’s where it ends up for Dottie. For you and me, it ends up moving us, I think, to want to take that trip with Dottie over and over again. This is definitely one of those very rare albums where the performances will outlast the vinyl.

Bill Backer
Lyricist, Composer, and Creative Director
of McCabb-Erickson Advertising Agency