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Link Wray: Be What You Want To

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In March 1973, “Polydor” label released “Be What You Want To”, the ninth Link Wray album. It was recorded in 1972, at “Wally Heider Studios” in San Francsico, and was produced by Thomas Jefferson Kaye.

Personnel:

  • Link Wray – lead vocals, electric guitar
  • Jerry Garcia – guitar, pedal steel
  • Bobby Black – steel guitar
  • David Bromberg – acoustic and electric guitar
  • Chris Michie – acoustic and electric guitar, backing vocals
  • Peter Kaukonen – electric guitar
  • John McFee – electric guitar
  • Greg Douglass – slide guitar
  • Commander Cody – piano, keyboards
  • Tom Salisbury – organ, piano, clavinet, backing vocals, horn and string arrangements
  • Paul Barlow – bass
  • Kip Maercklein – bass
  • Rick Shlosser – drums
  • Lance Dickerson – drums
  • Andy Stein – fiddle
  • Jules Broussard – alto and tenor saxophone
  • Jack Schroer – baritone saxophone
  • Tom Harrell – trumpet
  • Jules Rowell – valve trombone
  • Nathan Rubin – violin
  • Teresa Adams – cello
  • Bruce Steinberg – harmonica
  • David Coffin, Henry Coleman, Keith Crossan, Frank Demme, Diane Earl, Robert Frost, Zeller Hurd, Carl Johnson, Thomas Jefferson Kaye, Greg Kenney, Barbara Mauritz, Dorothy Morrison, Ralph Payne – backing vocals
  • Mallory Earl, Don Ososke – engineer
  • Mallory Earl – mixing
  • Bruce Steinberg – art direction, design, photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Link Wray, except where noted.

  1. Be What You Want To
  2. All Cried Out – Mann Curtis, Michel Deborah
  3. Lawdy Miss Clawdy – Lloyd Price
  4. Tucson, Arizona
  5. Riverbend
  6. You Walked By
  7. Walk Easy, Walk Slow
  8. All the Love in My Life
  9. You Really Got a Hold on Me
  10. Shine the Light
  11. Morning

Boz Scaggs: My Time

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In September 1972, “Columbia” label released “My Time”, the fifth Boz Scaggs album. It was recorded in 1972, at “Muscle Shoals Sound Studio” in Sheffield, Alabama, and “CBS Studios” in San Francisco, and was produced by Rot Halee and Boz Scaggs.

Personnel:

  • Boz Scaggs – vocals, electric guitar
  • Eddie Hinton– acoustic guitar
  • Jimmy Johnson– electric guitar
  • Pete Carr – electric guitar
  • Barry Beckett– piano
  • Clayton Ivey – organ, keyboards
  • Joachim Young – keyboards
  • David Hood– bass guitar
  • David Brown– bass guitar
  • Roger Hawkins– drums
  • George Rains – drums
  • Charles Chalmers– saxophone, backing vocals
  • Muscle Shoals Horns, Bob Ferreira, Tom Harrell, Mel Martin, Jim Rothermel, Jack Scherer, Jules Broussard – horns
  • Sandra Chalmers – backing vocals
  • Donna Rhodes – backing vocals
  • Dorothy Morrison – backing vocals
  • Linda Tillery– backing vocals
  • Anne Garner – graphics
  • Ethan A. Russell – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Boz Scaggs, except where noted.

  1. Dinah Flo
  2. Slowly in the West – David Brown
  3. Full-Lock Power Slide
  4. Old Time Lovin’ – Al Green
  5. Might Have to Cry
  6. Hello My Lover – Allen Toussaint
  7. Freedom for the Stallion – Allen Toussaint
  8. He’s a Fool for You
  9. We’re Gonna Roll
  10. My Time

Al Kooper: New York City (You’re a Woman)

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In June 1971, “Columbia” label released “New York City (You’re a Woman)”, the fourth Al Kooper album. It was recorded in 1971, and was produced by Al Kooper.

Personnel:

  • Al Kooper – vocals, piano, organ, guitars, mellotron, harmonium
  • Lou Shelton– guitar
  • Terry Kath– guitar solo
  • Sneaky Pete Kleinow– pedal steel
  • Caleb Quaye– guitar
  • Carol Kaye, Herbie Flowers– electric bass
  • Bobby West – acoustic and electric bass
  • Paul Humphries– drums
  • Roger Pope – drums
  • Bobbye Hall Porter– percussion
  • Rita Coolidge, Venetta Fields, Clydie King, Donna Weiss, Julia Tillman Waters, Edna Wright, Maxine Willard Waters, Lorna Willard, Edna Woods, Claudia Lennear, Dorothy Morrison, Robbie Montgomery, Jessie Smith, Robert John, Michael Gately and Jay Siegel – backing vocals
  • Doug Pomeroy, Frank Laico, Ken Scott, Mark Friedman, Sy Mitchell – engineer
  • John Berg – design
  • Richard Avedon– photography

Track listing:

  1. New York City (You’re a Woman) – Al Kooper
  2. John the Baptist (Holy John) – Al Kooper, Phyllis Major
  3. Can You Hear It Now (500 Miles) – traditional, arr. by Al Kooper
  4. The Ballad of the Hard Rock Kid – Al Kooper
  5. Going Quietly Mad – Al Kooper
  6. Medley
  • Oo Wee Baby, I Love You – Richard Parker
  • Love Is A Man’s Best Friend – Irwin Levine, Kooper
  1. Back on My Feet – Al Kooper
  2. Come Down in Time – Bernie Taupin, Elton John
  3. Dearest Darling – Bo Diddley
  4. Nightmare #5 – Al Kooper
  5. The Warning (Someone’s on the Cross Again) – Al Kooper, Phyllis Major

Boz Scaggs: Boz Scaggs & Band

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In December 1971, “Columbia” label released “Boz Scaggs & Band”, the fourth Boz Scaggs album. It was recorded in 1971, at “Olympic Studios” in London, “CBS Studios” in New York City, and “CBS Studios” in San Francisco, and was produced by Boz Scaggs and Glyn Johns.

Personnel:

  • Boz Scaggs – vocals, guitar
  • Doug Simril – guitar, piano
  • Joachim Jymm Young – organ, piano, keyboards, vibraphone
  • David Brown– bass
  • Eddie Lee Charlton – drums
  • George Rains – drums, percussion
  • Chepito Areas – conga, timbales
  • Mike Carabello – percussion, conga, timbales
  • Mel Martin – saxophone
  • Pat O’Hara – trombone
  • Tom Poole – trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Lee Charleton – sound effects
  • Rita Coolidge– backing vocals
  • Dorothy Morrison – backing vocals

Track listing:

All tracks by Boz Scaggs, except where noted.

  1. Monkey Time – Bob Scaggs, Clive Arrowsmith
  2. Runnin’ Blue – Bob Scaggs, Patrick O’Hara
  3. Up to You – Bob Scaggs, Clive Arrowsmith
  4. Love Anyway
  5. Flames of Love – Bob Scaggs, Clive Arrowsmith
  6. Here to Stay
  7. Nothing Will Take Your Place
  8. Why Why – Bob Scaggs, Tim Davis
  9. You’re So Good

Art Garfunkel: Angel Clare

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On September 11, 1973, “Columbia” label released “Angel Clare”, the debut Art Garfunkel studio album. It was recorded in 1973, at “Grace Cathedral” in San Francisco, and was produced by Art Garfunkel and Roy Halee. The album title,” Angel Clare” comes from the name of a character in Thomas Hardy’s novel, “Tess of the d’Urbervilles”.

Personnel:

  • Art Garfunkel – vocals
  • Paul Simon– vocals, guitar
  • J. J. Cale– guitar
  • Jerry Garcia– guitar
  • Larry Carlton– guitar
  • Fred Carter, Jr.– guitar
  • Louie Shelton– guitar
  • Dean Parks– guitar
  • Tommy Tedesco– bouzouki, mandolin
  • Larry Knechtel– keyboards
  • Michael Omartian– keyboards
  • Joe Osborn– bass
  • Carl Radle– bass
  • Jim Gordon– drums
  • Hal Blaine– drums
  • Milt Holland– percussion
  • Jorge Milchberg – percussion, charango
  • Jules Broussard – saxophone
  • Jack Schroer– saxophone
  • Stuart Canin – violin
  • Peter Matz– strings
  • Ernie Freeman– strings
  • Jimmie Haskell– strings
  • Dorothy Morrison – vocals
  • St Mary’s Choir – vocals
  • Sally Stevens – vocals
  • Jackie Ward Singers – vocals
  • Mark Friedman – recording
  • Mark Friedman – recorder
  • Roy Halee– engineer
  • George Horn – mastering
  • Ron Coro – art direction
  • Jim Marshall– photography

Track listing:

  1. Travelling Boy – Paul Williams, Roger Nichols
  2. Down in the Willow Garden – Charlie Monroe
  3. I Shall Sing – Van Morrison
  4. Old Man – Randy Newman
  5. Feuilles- Oh/Do Space Men Pass Dead Souls on Their Way to the Moon? – Traditional/Johann Sebastian Bach, Linda Grossman
  6. All I Know – Jimmy Webb
  7. Mary Was An Only Child – Jorge Milchberg, Albert Hammond, Mike Hazlewood
  8. Woyaya – Sol Amarfio, Osibisa
  9. Barbara Allen – traditional
  10. Another Lullaby – Jimmy Webb