{{about|the album by New Riders of the Purple Sage|the album by Duke Jordan|Midnight Moonlight (Duke Jordan album)|the 1958 song by M. Howard and L. Erwin|Johnny Nash|the 2015 single by Candy Coded|Moonlight (EP)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Midnight Moonlight | type = studio | artist = New Riders of the Purple Sage | cover = NRPSMidnightMoonlight.jpg | alt = | released = May 12, 1992 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = *Bluegrass *folk | length = 48:06 | label = Relix | producer = Rusty Gauthier, John Dawson | prev_title = Keep On Keepin' On | prev_year = 1989 | next_title = The Relix Bay Rock Shop, No. 1 | next_year = 1992 }}

'''''Midnight Moonlight''''' is the thirteenth studio album by the New Riders of the Purple Sage, released in 1992 on the Relix Records label.<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000094432|label=Midnight Moonlight}}</ref><ref>[http://www.deaddisc.com/disc/Midnight_Moonlight.htm ''Midnight Moonlight''] at the Grateful Dead Family Discography</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Great Rock Discography |last=Strong |first=Martin C. |year=2004 |edition=7th |publisher=Canongate U.S. |isbn=1-84195-615-5 |page=1083 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_WoRAPJQ58sC&pg=PA1083&dq=%22midnight+moonlight%22+%2B+%22new+riders%22 |accessdate=2009-07-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll |last=Romanowski |first=Patricia |year=1995 |edition=revised |publisher=Fireside |isbn=0-684-81044-1 |page=708 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_hKFAAAAIAAJ&q=%22midnight+moonlight%22+%2B+%22new+riders%22&dq=%22midnight+moonlight%22+%2B+%22new+riders%22 |accessdate=2009-07-28}}</ref>

''Midnight Moonlight'' features studio recordings of original and cover songs, performed in a style heavily influenced by bluegrass and American folk music. The instrumentation is largely acoustic, with no drums. This is in contrast to most earlier New Riders albums, which emphasized electric country rock.

==Track listing==

#"Midnight Moonlight" (Peter Rowan) – (4:10) #"Sutter's Mill" (John Dawson) – (3:25) #"Charlie's Garden" (Dawson) – (3:23) #"All I Remember" (Eric Moll, Karren Pell) – (3:23) #"Louisiana Lady" (Dawson) – (4:30) #"Ballad of the Deportees" (Woody Guthrie) – (3:23) #"Taking It Hard" (Joe New) – (4:26) #"Glendale Train" (Dawson) – (5:09) #"Change in the Weather" (Dawson) – (4:09) #"Diesel on My Tail" (Jim Fagan) – (3:05) #"Lonesome L.A. Cowboy" (Rowan) – (8:37)

==Personnel==

===New Riders of the Purple Sage=== *John Dawson – acoustic guitar, vocals *Rusty Gauthier – acoustic guitar, slide guitar, mandolin, fiddle, banjo, dumbek, vocals *Gary Vogensen – electric guitar, vocals *Fred Campbell – bass, acoustic guitar

===Additional musicians=== *Keith Allen – acoustic guitar, slide guitar, vocals *Norton Buffalo – harmonica, tambourine *Carolyn Gauthier – vocals *Bill Laymon – acoustic bass guitar *Evan Morgan – acoustic guitar *David Nelson – mandolin, acoustic guitar *John Pedersen – banjo, uilleann pipes *Kevin Wimmer – fiddle, Cajun accordion

===Production=== *Rusty Gauthier, John Dawson – producers *Rusty Gauthier – recording and mixing

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