Everything Stops for Tea

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Released May 1972 Release date May 1972 Genres Blues rock, Folk rock		Artist Long John Baldry Label Stony Plain Records Producers Elton John, Rod Stewart

Everything Stops for Tea(1972) Good to Be Alive(1973) Similar It Ain't Easy, Good to Be Alive, Long John's Blues, Remembering Leadbelly, It Still Ain't Easy

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Everything Stops for Tea is an album by John Baldry released in May 1972. It was produced by Elton John and Rod Stewart. Elton provides vocal accompaniment on tracks 1, 3-5. Stewart provides vocal accompaniment and plays banjo on track 8.

Several standout songs include the two Willie Dixon penned cuts, "Seventh Son" and "You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover"; as well as the Dixie Cups song "Iko Iko". This album along with his previous offering It Ain't Easy were the beginning of Baldry's return to the blues after his pop years in the late 60's. Several songs were released as singles by Warner Bros. including "Mother Ain't Dead", "Iko Iko" and "You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover".

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Track listing

"Intro: Come Back Again" (Ross Wilson) - 4:05
"Seventh Son" (Willie Dixon) - 3:07
"Wild Mountain Thyme" (Traditional; arranged John Baldry, Davey Johnstone) - 3:49
"Iko Iko" (Sharon Jones, Jesse Thomas, Joe Jones, Mary Lynn Jones) - 3:10
"Jubilee Cloud" (John Kongos, Peter Leroy) - 4:16
"Everything Stops for Tea" (Al Goodhart, Al Hoffman, Maurice Sigler) - 3:09 (from the musical Come Into the Kitchen)
"You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover" (Willie Dixon) - 4:21
"Mother Ain't Dead" (Traditional) - 2:55
"Hambone" (Sam Mitchell) - 3:48
"Lord Remember Me" (R. Phorne) - 4:08
"Armit's Trousers" (Ian Armit) - 1:45