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Good to Be Alive (Long John Baldry album)

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Released
  
1973

Length
  
42:32

Artist
  
Long John Baldry

Label
  
Casablanca Records

Recorded
  
Spring 1973

Producer
  
Jimmy Horowitz

Release date
  
1973

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Good to Be Alive (1973)
  
Welcome to Club Casablanca (1976)

Genres
  
Blues, Rock music, Folk music

Similar
  
Everything Stops for Tea, Remembering Leadbelly, Long John Baldry & Friends, It Ain't Easy, Long John's Blues

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Good to Be Alive is an album by Long John Baldry released in 1973. "Maggie Bell" was an acoustic tribute to the singer of Stone the Crows.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Gasoline Alley" (Rod Stewart, Ron Wood)
  2. "High and Low" (Jeff Thomas)
  3. "Song for Martin Luther King" (Baldry)
  4. "Good to Be Alive" (Colin Allen, Zoot Money)
  5. "Rake and Ramblin' Boy" (arranged by Baldry)
  6. "Let Me Pass" (Bo Diddley)
  7. "I Wish I Was a Rock" (Derroll Adams)
  8. "Brand New Day" (Al Kooper)
  9. "Up in the Trees" (Neil Shepherd)
  10. "Let's Go" (Chas Jankel)
  11. "Maggie Bell" (Baldry)
  12. "She" (Chris Ethridge, Gram Parsons) - duet with Lisa Strike

Personnel

  • Long John Baldry - 12-string guitar, vocals
  • Dave Ball - guitar
  • Denny Ball - bass
  • Terry Cox, Tony Newman - drums
  • Mike Driscoll - drums on "Good to Be Alive"
  • John Mealing - organ on "Good to Be Alive"
  • Bob Cohen - guitar on "Good to Be Alive"
  • Andy Bown - acoustic guitar on "Song for Martin Luther King"
  • Jimmy Horowitz - keyboards
  • Pete Stanley - banjo
  • John Field, Mike French - fiddle
  • Sam Mitchell - steel guitar
  • Chris Hughes - tenor saxophone
  • Lesley Duncan, Lisa Strike, Susie Glover, Kay Garner - background vocals
    • Technical
  • Steve Campbell - photography

    • Songs

    1Good To Be Alive3:39
    2Let Me Pass3:17
    3Rake And A Rambling Boy3:27

    References

    Good to Be Alive (Long John Baldry album) Wikipedia
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