This album is from the same recordings made for the "Band of Gypsys" album. // PERSONNEL also include: Buddy Miles – drums, backing vocals / Billy Cox – bass guitar, backing vocals
Time:
5:13
Artist:
The Skatalites [Billing on some singles: 'Johnnie Moore And The Skatalites' *]
* - To verify, click the Link above, left to view an original single (there were 3 variations of the original Jamaican single); YES this is confusing ...
Comment:
... The NEXT set was chosen by Harold Elias, great stuff for sure:
* The second most-covered Bo Diddley song, after 'I'm A Man'. Official release {as the "Who Do You Love Suite", taking up an _entire_ side of the album} was on their second LP, 'Happy Trails', March 1969
His last album with original members Boz Scaggs and Jim Peterman; It was voted number 353 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's "All Time Top 1000 Albums".
His last album with original members Boz Scaggs and Jim Peterman; It was voted number 353 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's "All Time Top 1000 Albums".
Song was recorded in Nov 1973, but not released till his compilation 'Decade', Nov 1977 // * - Sons of Willie /// Click the Link above, left to view the CD
Time:
5:59
Artist:
Neil Young [Billed as 'Neil Young + The Promise of the Real']
Song was originally on his album 'Freedom', Oct 1989 / Rolling Stone ranked this song #214 on its "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". // * - Sons of Willie
Time:
6:13
Artist:
Don Drummond [Billed on single as 'Don Drummond And Band']
'The Wayfaring Stranger' was first recorded by Vaughan's Texas Quartet in 1930 - members of the "Western Writers of America" chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.
This track was added to their locally-issued album (released in 1986), on the English reissue (Demon Records, 1987), also on the US reissue in 1988 (on RCA). They were named after the huge hit in the fall of 1965 by Roy Head.
Time:
6:37
Artist:
Roland Alphonso [Billed on the single 'Roland Alphonso And The Skatalites']
Song:
Ball Of Fire [Title on UK single: 'Ball 'O' Fire'*]
The title on the front cover of the CD could be interpreted as 'Goddessinthedoorway' / * - After hearing Jagger's latest demos, Townshend told him that they didn't sound like Rolling Stones songs, and that Jagger should record them on his own.
* - Lennon got the title from an article in the May 1968 issue of "American Rifleman", the magazine of the National Rifle Association (NRA). Lennon - "I just thought it was a fantastic, insane thing to say. A warm gun means you just shot something." The magazine had adapted the headline from the title of the bestselling book by cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, "Happiness is a Warm Puppy"
Time:
7:23
Artist:
The Skatalites ["45cat" site: "Thought to be The Melodies"]
... Entirely written, produced and recorded by him in his basement studio - he has stated in interviews that he wanted to create a folk album in the vein of Rod Stewart's earliest solo work, consisting of an acoustic bass with minimal instrumentation layered on top of the tracks.
* - Their first album wasn't released in the US till July 1979, different track listing, changing the track order and swapping out several songs for non-album tracks recorded in the interim. / Released as a single in England - Click on the link above, left, to view the original single, with a color picture sleeve.
