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Ordinary Average Guy

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Released
  
April 23, 1991

Length
  
47:44

Release date
  
23 April 1991

Genres
  
Rock music, Hard rock

Recorded
  
August, 1990

Artist
  
Joe Walsh

Label
  
Pyramid Records

Producers
  
Joe Walsh, Joe Vitale

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Ordinary Average Guy (1991)
  
Songs for a Dying Planet (1992)

Similar
  
Joe Walsh albums, Rock music albums

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Ordinary Average Guy is the ninth solo studio album, and its title-track single (second on the playlist), by American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Joe Walsh. The album was released in mid 1991. It was Walsh's first album of entirely new music since Got Any Gum? in 1987, and his first solo album to be issued internationally by Epic following a four-year alliance with Warner Bros. Records in the United States and Canada. The album features Ringo Starr, Survivor's lead vocalist Jimi Jamison, and the drummer Joe Vitale from Walsh's former band Barnstorm. Vitale also sings the lead vocals on the final track of the album, "School Days".

Contents

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Reception

Writing for AllMusic, critic Vincent Jeffries wrote of the album "This collection of nostalgia, decent balladry, and quirky anthems probably reinforced any notions of Joe Walsh's creative decline... this reflective, sometimes half-hearted effort belies a weariness that's both sad and difficult to appreciate as this master goes through the motions."

Track listing

All songs by Joe Walsh, except where noted.

Personnel

  • Joe Walsh – guitar, keyboards, vocals
  • Waddy Wachtel – guitar
  • Rick Rosas – bass guitar
  • George "Chocolate" Perry – bass guitar
  • Chad Cromwell – drums, percussion
  • Joe Vitale – keyboards, drums, percussion, bass guitar, vocals
  • Paul Shaffer – piano, keyboards
  • Wally Cullis – drums, percussion
  • Larry Otis – saxophone
  • Ringo Starr – backing vocals
  • Al Paris – backing vocals
  • Kelley Hurt – backing vocals
  • Jimi Jamison – backing vocals
  • Jeff Rogers – backing vocals
  • Smokey Wendell – manager
  • Others

  • Gary Belz
  • Kevin Buell
  • Michael Caplan
  • Mark Chernoff
  • David Fishof
  • Ken Frank
  • Wally Franson
  • Bruce Garfield
  • Richard 'Kush" Griffith
  • Herbs
  • Mark Herman
  • Ken Kraus
  • Steve Lawrence
  • Lucy Walsh
  • Turley Richards
  • Alan Rogan
  • Ed Sanford
  • Production

  • Producers: Joe Walsh, Joe Vitale
  • Executive producer: Scott Maclellan
  • Engineers: Jim Nipar, Dave Reynolds, Bill Szymczyk
  • Assistant engineers: Tim Ray, Jim Stabile, Johnny Walls
  • Mixing: Dave Reynolds
  • Mixing assistants: Tim Ray, Johnny Walls
  • Mastering: Vladimir Meller
  • Art direction: David Coleman
  • Photography: Patrick Cullie, Alan Messer
  • Charts

    Album - Billboard (North America)

    Singles - Billboard (North America)

    Songs

    1Two Sides to Every Story3:23
    2Ordinary Average Guy4:12
    3The Gamma Goochee2:49

    References

    Ordinary Average Guy Wikipedia