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Go for Your Guns

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Released
  
April 16, 1977

Go for Your Guns(1977)
  
Showdown(1978)

Release date
  
16 April 1977

Producer
  
The Isley Brothers

Length
  
33:25

Artist
  
The Isley Brothers

Label
  
T-Neck Records

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Recorded
  
1976-77 at Bearsville Studios, Bearsville, New York

Genres
  
Soul music, Funk, Rock music, Funk rock, Smooth soul, Hard rock

Similar
  
The Isley Brothers albums, Soul music albums

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Go for Your Guns is the fifteenth album by The Isley Brothers. Released on April 16, 1977 on their T-Neck label, it was also the band's fifth album to be distributed by their deal with Epic. The album is considered by most Isley fans as their best effort overall.

Contents

The album was remastered and expanded for inclusion in the 2015 released CD box set "The RCA Victor & T-Neck Album Masters, 1959-1983".

The isley brothers livin the life go for your guns


Recording

After four records that were assisted by producers Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff, the Isley Brothers decided to stay in the East Coast choosing to record at upstate New York's Bearsville Studios, not too far from the brothers' T-Neck label in neighboring New Jersey. The album was engineered by John Holbrook assisted by Tom Mark. It was mixed at Media Sound in NYC with Holbrook as mix engineer.

The album also noted Ron Isley's growing transition into singing more ballads, though he still performed lead on some of the band's funkier recordings on the album. Though they had changed their location and had some minor changes during production, most of the direction of the album remained the same as it had for other albums, with stronger emphasis on rock music as evident in the songs "Climbing Up the Ladder" and "Livin' in the Life" than they had on previous albums.

Reception

Released in 1977, the album became one of their longest-running chart successes on the album chart staying on the charts for 40 weeks and spawning several singles including "The Pride", "Livin' in the Life" and the ballad "Voyage to Atlantis" while the funk ballad "Footsteps in the Dark", which was never released as a single, became one of the brothers' most popular songs in their repertoire and would be sampled constantly, most famously by rapper Ice Cube in his hit, "It Was a Good Day". Selling over two million copies, it eventually went double platinum and also hit number-one on the R&B albums chart.

Track listing

All tracks written by Rudolph Isley, O'Kelly Isley, Ronald Isley, Ernie Isley, Marvin Isley and Chris Jasper.

Personnel

  • Ronald Isley: lead vocals
  • Rudolph Isley: background vocals
  • O'Kelly Isley: background vocals
  • Ernie Isley: electric guitar, rhythm guitar and drums
  • Marvin Isley: bass
  • Chris Jasper: electric piano, ARP synthesizers and keyboards
  • Everett Collins: congas
  • Samples & Covers

  • Ice Cube sampled "Footsteps In The Dark" on his song "It Was A Good Day" on his album The Predator in 1992.
  • J Dilla sampled "Footsteps In The Dark" on his song "Won't Do" on his album The Shining in 2006.
  • Thundercat sampled "Footsteps In The Dark" on his song "Them Changes" on his mini-album The Beyond/Where The Giants Roam in 2015.
  • Songs

    1The Pride - Parts 1 & 25:34
    2Footsteps in the Dark - Parts 1 & 25:05
    3Tell Me When You Need It Again - Parts 1 & 25:03

    References

    Go for Your Guns Wikipedia


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