One-Eyed Jack is Garland Jeffreys‘ fourth solo album. It was released in 1978 on A&M Records. It was recorded at Atlantic Studios, New York City and produced by Jeffreys and David Spinozza. It was dedicated: “in Memory of my childhood idol, Jackie Robinson…here comes the One-Eyed Jack, Sometimes white and sometimes black”. Tracks 1 She […]
Motion is the sixth album by Geoff Muldaur, released in 1976 on Reprise. Geoff Muldaur (born August 12, 1943) is an American folk musician who was a founding member of the Jim Kweskin Jug Band and a member of Paul Butterfield’s Better Days. Tracks 1 Let It Out (Gary Wright; Jamie Quinn) 03:06 2 Since […]
Remedies is the third album released by New Orleans R&B artist Dr John. The photography was by Steve LaVere, taken in 1969 at the Whisky a Go Go. The backing band is the Cold Grits (featuring : Billy Carter, Harold Cowart, Jimmy O’Rourke, Ron Ziegler) Tracks 1 Loop Garoo (Mac Rebennack) 04:42 2 What Goes […]
Lasso From El Paso is a 1976 album by Kinky Friedman. “Sold American” was recorded live at Fort Collins, Colorado as part of Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue. Richard Samet “Kinky” Friedman (born November 1, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician, defender of stray animals, and former columnist for Texas Monthly who […]
Jamie Walters is the self-titled debut from American actor and singer, Jamie Walters. The album’s first single “Hold On,” reached number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100. It placed at number 52 on the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1995 list. The album sold over 1 million copies and was certified platinum. Tracks 1 […]
Babylon is the second album by New Orleans R&B artist Dr. John. In his autobiography, Under A Hoodoo Moon, Dr. John describes the origins of the album in detail: “Our second album was cut in late 1968—the year of the Tet offensive, and of the assassinations of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. It […]
Warm Your Heart is a 1991 album released by American R&B/soul singer Aaron Neville, (his second album). The album features the singles “Everybody Plays the Fool”, “Somewhere, Somebody” and “Close Your Eyes”. The “Close Your Eyes” single also featured album producer Linda Ronstadt on guest vocals. The pair had previously collaborated on the songs “Don’t […]
Gris-Gris is the debut album by Dr John (Mac Rebennack). Produced by Harold Battiste, it was released on Atco Records in 1968. The musical style of Gris-Gris is a hybrid of New Orleans rhythm and blues and psychedelic rock. Despite the New Orleans style, it was recorded in California, albeit with several native New Orleans […]
Goodnight Vienna is the fourth studio album by Ringo Starr. It was recorded in the summer of 1974 in Los Angeles, and released later that year. Goodnight Vienna followed the commercially successful predecessor Ringo, and Starr used many of the same players, including Billy Preston, Klaus Voormann, Robbie Robertson, Harry Nilsson, and producer Richard Perry. […]
“A Dose of Rock ‘n’ Roll” is a song written by Carl Groszman, who at the time was signed to Ringo Starr‘s record label, Ring O’ Records. Starr released his own recording of the song on his 1976 album Ringo’s Rotogravure. Also issued as the album’s lead single, it became his first hit as an […]