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Some Times Don't Always Last Forever

by Donnie Lee Stoltenburg

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1.
The South Still On My Mind 01:39
2.
An Old Man and His Wine 02:47
3.
The Lord Giveth... 03:16
4.
Just to Make You My Own 02:19
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I Went to the City 02:40
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Tobacco Charlie 02:19
7.
Early Mornin' Blues 01:27
8.
That Big Ol' 747 01:52
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I'll Have Another Beer 01:33
10.
The Cheating Side of Love 01:55
11.
The Feelings of a Guitar and a Man 02:13
12.
Grandma Died Last Night 03:20
13.
King of Skid Row 01:47
14.
I Need Your Love, Not Your Sympathy 02:21
15.
Singer of Sad Songs 01:33
16.
Some Times Don't Always Last Forever 02:07
17.
Red California Wine 02:37
18.
Good Morning, Mr. Foreman 01:51
19.
D.W.I. 02:21
20.
I May Ride in a Cadillac Someday 01:51
21.
Blue, Baby, Blue 02:31
22.
The Best Years of My Life (Are Yet to Come) 04:09
23.
A Moment of Silence 01:03
24.
A Place I Call Home 04:12
25.
Loving Her This Morning 02:50
26.
I Don't Cheat Anymore 03:02
27.
Tobacco Charlie - Band Rehearsal 04:34
28.
Loving Her This Morning - Live 03:16
29.
I'll Have Another Beer - Live 02:45
30.
The Lord Giveth... - Studio 03:27
31.
Just To Make You My Own - Studio 03:26

about

The home recordings of my father, Donnie Lee Stoltenburg (1952-1987). Most of this album was recorded on January 4th, 1987 just a few hours before he would die just an hour or two after midnight on January 5th. That night Donnie's car would veer off the icy road and into a tree as he made his way between local juke joints to book shows for the new band he was putting together. This cassette was kept in a safety deposit box by my mother. In May of 2019 she would finally hand it over to me, with a copy of his death certificate and tell me I was now responsible for them. That was the last day I saw my mother alive as she died suddenly a month later from a cancer she didn't even know she had.

Donnie was born in Lumberton, NC and spent his early childhood there before relocating to Vero Beach, FL. He was married a time or two in his youth, played in country bands and went on the road on a Southern honky tonk circuit. His third marriage gave him two children but his lifestyle proved to be too much for his family to bear and he found himself drifting again. Soon he took an opportunity to travel to Pennsylvania with a woman he was dating who was from there. Upon arriving in Pennsylvania, Donnie met my mother Charlene and they were married just a few short months later in 1980. I was born at the end of 1982.

My earliest memories are of my Dad sitting in the living room of our little blue trailer with his equipment taking up most of the space, as he sat on a stool and sang his songs into the microphone. Sometimes he had his bandmates with him, but more often than not it was just him with the occasional duet with my mother as she passed through doing housework. Listening to these tapes is like a time portal for me into that early version of my life.

Tracks 1-22 are the complete recording he made on the night he died. Track 23 is a buffer between, a few minutes of his metronome and the ambience of our little blue trailer between the last song and remembering to turn off the recorder.

24-26 are tracks from random cassettes that he recorded which have been stored in a shoe box over the years. As far as I know all of these songs are his. There is a plethora of covers on those tapes, but I only included here the songs that he wrote. I'm missing one song that I remember very well called "Evil Angel", if I stumble across it, it will be added. Dates of these recordings are unknown. Probably somewhere between 1984-1986. Track 27 is a full band rehearsal of "Tobacco Charlie" with my Dad talking about who Tobacco Charlie was.

28 and 29 are live recordings with his full band on an unspecified date.

30 and 31 are his two studio tracks recorded in 1980.

Another collection is coming of covers that I have recovered that he worked into his sets. Sometimes even songs he hated doing but knew that's what people wanted.

He blended his love for 50s and 60s rock and R&B with classic country and if anyone had ever heard him back then, he'd be a pioneer of the sound. No one did though. At least not anyone outside of rural Pennsylvania. Names of bands that he was in that I am aware of were: Three Hits and a Miss, Shades of Country, Renegade, Southern Comfort and Cedar Creek.

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released January 9, 2022

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