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I Stand Alone (Al Kooper album)

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Released
  
1969

Length
  
41:24

Release date
  
1969

Label
  
Columbia Records

Recorded
  
1968

Artist
  
Al Kooper

Producer
  
Al Kooper

Genre
  
Rock music

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I Stand Alone (1969)
  
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Similar
  
Al Kooper albums, Rock music albums

I Stand Alone is the title of New York City based singer-songwriter Al Kooper's 1969 début album, issued on Columbia Records, recorded after his collaboration with Michael Bloomfield and Stephen Stills, Super Session.

Contents

An eclectic mix of country, soul, blues, and rock with a dose of psychedelia mixed throughout, it is a continuation of Super Session in its mix of disparate covers from the likes of Bill Monroe, Harry Nilsson and Traffic and originals running the gamut of feelings.

Unlike that album, however, with the spotlight on Kooper alone and Kooper's alternate utilization of orchestras and professional Nashville studio musicians, the tracks are more focused, all within two and five minutes. "Camille" is lifted from "Overture to Le Domino Noire" by French composer Daniel Auber

Most tracks are bridged with sound effects taken from albums issued by Elektra Records. The Overture begins with a collage of sound effects also taken from those albums.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Al Kooper; except where indicated

  1. "Overture" – 4:39
  2. "I Stand Alone" – 3:37
  3. "Camille" (Kooper, Tony Powers) – 2:54
  4. "One" (Harry Nilsson) – 2:53
  5. "Coloured Rain" (Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood) – 3:01
  6. "Soft Landing on the Moon" – 3:58
  7. "I Can Love a Woman" – 3:28
  8. "Blue Moon of Kentucky" (Bill Monroe) – 2:14
  9. "Toe Hold" (Isaac Hayes, David Porter) – 3:53
  10. "Right Now for You" – 2:33
  11. "Hey, Western Union Man" (Jerry Butler, Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff) – 3:43
  12. "Song and Dance for the Unborn, Frightened Child" – 4:31

Musicians

  • Al Kooper - piano, organ, ondioline, guitars, vocals, orchestrations (track 5)
  • Wayne Moss – guitar (tracks 2, 8, 9, 10, and 11)
  • Jerry Kennedy – guitar (tracks 2, 8 [solo], 9, 10, and 11)
  • "Big" Charlie Daniels - guitar (tracks 2, 8, 9, 10, and 11)
  • Charlie McCoy - electric bass, (tracks 2, 8, 9, 10, and 11), orchestrations (track 8)
  • Ken Buttrey - drums (tracks 2, 8, 9, 10, and 11)
  • The Blossoms - backing vocals (tracks 2, 8, 9, 10, and 11)
  • Charlie Calello – orchestrations (tracks 3 and 7)
  • Don Ellis – orchestrations (track 5)
  • Jimmy Wisner - orchestrations (tracks 1, 4, and 12)

    • Technical

  • Al Kooper – producer
  • Brian Ross-Myring, Charlie Bragg, Don Puluse, Fred Catero, Glen Kolotkin, Neil Wilburn – engineers

    • Songs

    1Overture4:39
    2I Stand Alone3:37
    3Camille2:55

    References

    I Stand Alone (Al Kooper album) Wikipedia
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