Miner's Night Out

Pickers, players & vocalists: John McEuen: banjo; Andy Goessling: mandolin; Matt Cartsonis: guitar

I wrote this one night in 1980 on the NGDB bus headed to Colorado imagining what a bunch of miners might play at the end of their day at their camps during the 1880s Gold Rush. I tuned my banjo to a C-minor to match the throbbing bus diesel going 70 on I-70. By the time we hit the Rockies, this song had arrived along with us.