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Tim Dabbs

Singer Songwriter
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Tim's music is available in the Johnstown area at the Dillweed Trailside Shop in Dilltown, PA, or on the internet at CD Baby. Digital files are available at ITunes, Rhapsody, and most other major digital distribution sites.

Laurel Mountain Christmas. Tim's latest CD is a collection of winter and holiday music released in late 2008.. It includes fresh versions of traditional music, as well as some lesser known contemporary songs, and Tim's original title song, Laurel Mountain Christmas.

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Track Listing:

Christmas for Cowboys (Steve Weisberg)
Silver Bells (Livingston/Evans)
Christmas in the Trenches (McCutcheon)
Good King Wenceslaus (Traditional)
Noel: Christmas Eve 1913 (Bridges/Holdridge)
Bring a Torch Jeanette Isabella (Traditional)
Huron Carol (Traditional)
Song for a Winter's Night (Lightfoot)
Laurel Mountain Christmas (Dabbs)
Winter Wonderland (Benard/Smith)

 


 

Safely Home. You can order this album from CD Baby, or download it from a wide variety of digital download sites including ITunes, Napster. and Rhapsody. Tim covers his three main influences on this album with tunes by Harry Chapin, Gordon Lightfoot, and John Denver. It includes the first licensed recording of John Denver's Storms of November. The original music on the album continues Tim's penchant for singing about the people and places of America, including the barnstorming pilots of the early airmail service, the Chesapeake Bay watermen, and railroadmen. The title track is a tribute to Tim's friend Lt Col Michael Anderson, and the crew of the space shuttle Columbia (STS-107).

safelyhomecoverTrack Listing:

Steady Rhythm (Tim Dabbs)
High River Crossroad (Wayne Francis)
We'll Be There By Morning (Chris Westfall)
Talking With the Angels (Wayne Francis)
Graveyard of the Alleghenies (Tim Dabbs)
Halfway Around the World (Tim Dabbs)
Mr. Tanner (Harry Chapin)
Thanks to Mother Mercy (David Mallett)
Shadows (Gordon Lightfoot)
Shine Your Boots (Tim Dabbs)
Storms of November (John Denver)
Juniper Light (Tim Dabbs)
Willsboro Bay
Waterman (Tim Dabbs)
Safely Home (Tim Dabbs)

Live! was recorded at an outdoor concert sponsored by the Dillweed Bed and Breakfast in Dilltown, Pennsylvania. It is a live album that captures Tim's down to earth storytelling style. It includes Tim's tale of the Johnstown Flood of 1889, The Day the Rumors Came True, as well as Worn Ivory Keys, a tender tribute to his grandmother who introduced him to the wonder of music.

livecdcoverTrack Listing:

Tonight I'll Fly Back Home (Tim Dabbs)
The Great Lakes Song (Shel Silverstein/Pat Dailey)
Running River (Tim Dabbs)
The Potter's Wheel (Bill Danoff)
Ghosts of Cape Horn (Gordon Lightfoot)
Millworker (James Taylor)

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Cambria Bells (Tim Dabbs)
Whispering Jesse (John Denver)
High Banks (Tim Dabbs)
227 (Tim Dabbs)
Jenny Dreamed of Trains (Vince Gil/Guy Clark)
The Day the Rumors Came True (Tim Dabbs)
Paradise (John Prine)
Worn Ivory Keys (Tim Dabbs)

 

Juniper Light is Tim's first commercial release. It is primarily original music and includes covers by Clint Black, Steve Goodman and David Mallett. Dirty Linen magazine covered this debut CD, and branded Tim "a songwriting talent to watch in their published review. This CD is currently out of print.

juniperlightcdTrack Listing:

Juniper Light (Tim Dabbs)
The Day the Rumors Came True (Tim Dabbs)
Pennsylvania Highways (Tim Dabbs/Amy DeRubis)
A Change in the Air (Clint Black/Hayden Nicholas)
Tonight I'll Fly Back Home (Tim Dabbs)
Silence (Amy DeRubis)
Worn Ivory Keys (Tim Dabbs)
Willsboro Bay (Tim Dabbs)
Running River (Tim Dabbs)
Garden Song (David Mallett)
Walls of Stone (Tim Dabbs)
City of New Orleans (Steve Goodman)

 

 

Tim has also contributed to a couple of tribute albums. First, The Legacy Lives On; A Tribute to John Denver. Tim contributed four songs to this album, and it is available from Jim McCrain at Walrus Sound Productions. All proceeds go to Plant It 2020 to support the planting of indigenous trees. Also, An Internet Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot II, which is an amazing collaboration by artists across the planet in tribute to one of the greatest Songwriters of our time. The album was produced by Wayne Francis, who also wrote two of the songs on Tim's Safely Home album.

 

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