Tearin' Up The Line, released in 2004 features Dick Atkinson on banjo and guitar, Liza Atkinson and Shelene Atkinson on guitar, Adam Atkinson on mandolin, Becky Buller on fiddle, Junior Barber on dobro and Jim Rooney on bass.
Cover design by Shelene Atkinson.
The CD includes 15 songs, traditional and orginial material. The featured song is one written by Dick Atkinson, Tearin' Up the Line. The song is about the closing of an iron ore mine, inspired by the closing of Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation in Star Lake, NY in the 1970s. Also by Dick Atkinson, Free and Easy Blues, Raven's Flight and Still He Said He Didn't Love Her. Other orginals include by Shelene Atkinson, Hazel (a song inspired by Miss Hazel Dickens), My Burdens Are Heavey, Photograph and Grandmother.
- Marbletown
- Hazel
- Shady Grove
- Rest My Weary Feet
- My Burdens Are Heavy
- In the Pines
- Free and Easy Blues
- Mama Put Down That Picture
- Photograph
- Grandmother
- Rovin' Gambler
- Still He Said He Didn't Love Her
- Long, Long Road
- Tearin' Up the Line
- Raven's Flight
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