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Up from the Skies: The Polydor Years

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Released
  
July 7, 1998

Artist
  
Ellen McIlwaine

Label
  
Polydor Records

Length
  
73:37

Release date
  
7 July 1998

Genres
  
Blues, Folk music, Funk

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Recorded
  
Tracks 1–6 Live at The Bitter End, New York City Tracks 7–9, 11–20 Record Plant Studios, New York Track 10 Burmese Records Studio, New York Track 21 Live at Carnegie Hall, New York

Producer
  
Peter K. Seigel (original recordings) Jerry Rappaport (compilation)

Similar
  
We the People, Honky Tonk Angel, Bent Out of Shape, Straight Between the Eyes, On Stage

Up From the Skies: The Polydor Years is a 1998 compilation album featuring the music of Ellen McIlwaine during her 1972–1973 recording years with Polydor Records. The first half of the album is made up of her debut solo album Honky Tonk Angel while the second half consists of her second album We the People.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks are written by Ellen McIlwaine except where noted.

  1. "Toe Hold" (Isaac Hayes/David Porter) – 4:32
  2. "Weird of Hermiston" (Jack Bruce/Pete Brown) – 5:06
  3. "Up From the Skies" (Jimi Hendrix) – 3:52
  4. "Losing You" – 2:22
  5. "It's Growing" (Smokey Robinson/Warren Moore) – 3:05
  6. Ode to Billy Joe (Bobbie Gentry) – 4:13
  7. "Pinebo (My Story)" (Guy Warren) – 2:41
  8. "Can't Find My Way Home" (Steve Winwood) – 3:39
  9. "Wings of a Horse" – 4:01
  10. "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" (J.D. Miller) – 2:38
  11. "Wade in the Water" – 4:55
  12. "Ain't No Two Ways About It (It's Love)" – 4:26
  13. "All to You" – 3:05
  14. "Sliding" – 2:52
  15. "Never Tell Your Mother She's Out of Tune" (Jack Bruce/Pete Brown) – 2:25
  16. "Farther Along" (Traditional) – 3:44
  17. "I Don't Want to Play" – 3:20
  18. "Underground River" – 3:54
  19. "Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven (But Nobody Wants To Die)" (Al Fields/Tom Delaney/Timmie Rogers) – 2:25
  20. "Jimmy Jean" – 2:59
  21. "We the People" – 3:23
  • Tracks 1–11 were originally released as Honky Tonk Angel, March 1972, except for track 5, which is previously unreleased.
  • Tracks 12–21 were originally released as We the People, January 1973.

    • Songs

    1Toe Hold4:22
    2Weird of Hermiston5:06
    3Up From the Skies4:38

    References

    Up from the Skies: The Polydor Years Wikipedia
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