Chicken Skin Music is Ry Cooder‘s fifth studio album, released in 1976, on the Reprise label. Tracks 1 The Bourgeois Blues (Huddie Ledbetter) 3:24 2 I Got Mine (Traditional) 4:28 3 Always Lift Him Up Kanaka Wai Wai (Alfred Reed) 6:03 4 He’ll Have To Go (Audrey Allison; Joe Allison) 5:09 5 Smack Dab In […]
Blue Skies is the debut album by American Idol runner-up Diana DeGarmo, released in December 7, 2004 on RCA Records. It debuted at number 52, selling 47,000 copies in its first week and currently 168,000 copies. Tracks 1 Cardboard Castles (Andreas Carlsson; Lisa Greene; Savan Kotecha) 3:38 2 Blue Skies (John Shanks; Kara DioGuardi) 4:03 […]
No Frills is the sixth studio album by American singer Bette Midler, released on Atlantic Records in 1983. No Frills was Midler’s first studio album in four years, following the movies The Rose, Divine Madness! and the ill-fated Jinxed!. The rock and new wave influenced album was produced by Chuck Plotkin, best known for his […]
“Beast of Burden” is a song by English rock band The Rolling Stones, featured on the 1978 album Some Girls. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked the song #435 on their list of “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time” and #433 on the 500 Greatest Rock and Roll Songs of All Time. In 1984, […]
Wendy & Bonnie Flower were American singing sisters, who recorded the album Genesis in 1969 for Skye Records, which was produced by Gary McFarland. At the time, McFarland was part owner of the Skye label, along with Latin percussionist Cal Tjader (who was Wendy and Bonnie’s godfather) and jazz guitarist Gábor Szabó. Tracks 1 Let […]
Clang of the Yankee Reaper is the third studio album by Van Dyke Parks, released in 1976 with only one original Parks composition. It continues his exploration of calypso music started in the previous album Discover America (1972). In particular, it contains several songs by Mighty Sparrow and Lord Kitchener, as well as a diverse […]
Out of the Blues is the nineteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Boz Scaggs. The album, a mixture of vintage classics and four original compositions by close friend Jack “Applejack” Walroth, is the last in a trilogy that began with 2013’s Memphis and continued with 2015’s A Fool to Care. The album contains covers of […]
Summer Breeze is the fourth album by the American soft rock band Seals and Crofts, released in 1972 through Warner Bros. Records. It was a major commercial breakthrough for the group, and peaked at #7 on the Billboard album chart. The title cut was released as a single on September 9, 1972, peaking at #4 […]
Roger Tillison’s Album is an album by Roger Tillison (October, 18, 1941 Oklahoma – December 9, 2013), released in 1971 on Atco Records. Tracks 1 Down In The Flood (Bob Dylan) 3:38 2 Old Cracked Looking Glass (Woody Guthrie) 3:24 3 Good Time Gal (Roger Tillison) 3:22 4 Just Before The Break Of Day (Roger […]
…That’s the Way It Is is the thirteenth album by Harry Nilsson. The album includes a couple of original songs, but mostly consists of cover tunes. Some of the covers include: America (“I Need You” is from their 1971 album America), George Harrison (“That Is All” is from his 1973 album Living in the Material […]