Released February 1975 Trin' to Start Out Clean
(1975) Hobo's Taunt
(1977) Release date February 1975 Label Woodshed Records | Recorded January–February 1975. Artist Willie P. Bennett Producer David Essig Genre Bluegrass | |
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Tryin' To Start Out Clean was the debut album released by Canadian singer-songwriter Willie P. Bennett and was released as an LP album by Woodshed Records in 1975 (WS-004). The album was recorded and mixed at Thunder Sound, Toronto, January–February, 1975.
Contents
The album contains one of Bennett's best-known songs, "Music In Your Eyes", which was performed live and recorded, speperately, by Canadian folk icons Stan Rogers and his brother Garnet Rogers, amongst others. "White Line" was first released as a single in 1969. In 2014, Canadian musician , Peter Thompson, released his album Music in Your Eyes which features Thompson's cover as the opening track.
Bennett re-released the album on compact disc in 2001. The album was digitally remastered by Paul Reiemens at Grant Avenue Studios in Hamilton, Ontario and released on Bennett's independent label, Bnatural Music. In 2003 it was re-released by Japanese label Air Mail Archive (AIRAC-1038), as part of their "Canadian Singer Songwriters Series Vol. 2", in an LP-style slipcase. However, this edition was mastered from a vinyl LP.
Willie p bennett tryin to start out clean
Track listing
Side one
- Driftin' Snow - 2:42
- White Line - 4:26
- Me and Molly - 3:34
- Don't Blame Your Blues on Me - 2:04
- Country Squall - 1:15
- In a Prayer - 3:46
Side two
- My Pie - 2:58
- Music in your Eyes - 5:28
- Willie's Diamond Joe - 3:41
- Down to the Water - 4:20
- Tryin' to Start out Clean - 3:40
- Driftin' Snow (Reprise) / Sault Creek III - 1:50
All words and music by Willie P. Bennett, C&R 2001 Bnatural Music
Performers/Credits
Songs
1Driftin' Snow2:49
2White Line4:28
3Me And Molly2:17