Artist: John Simon Album: John Simon's Album Year: 1971 Label: Water Music Records Style: Folk Rock, Pop Rock, Rock & Roll Genre: Pop,Rock Format: Flac (Cue+Log+Tracks+Scans) Size: 271MB Time: 42:12
Info: «John Simon (born August 11, 1941, Norwalk, Connecticut) is an American musician, record producer, and composer. He is best known for his work with The Band as producer and musician on Music from Big Pink and The Band. John Simon's Album arrived in 1970, and like the music of The Band is hard to put under any given banner or title. From the opening psychedelic nursery rhyme of The Song Of The Elves, which features Leon Russell and Jean Millington, to dream-like confessionals on Nobody Knows and Rain Song. Three of the strongest songs on the album hit you one after the other: Tannenbaum is all energy with Garth Hudson's soprano sax singing along with John Hall's wonderful dancing guitar lines; Davy's On The Road Again (later a semi-hit for Manfred Mann's Earth Band from their Watch album) was co-written with Robbie Robertson and is the sad tale of a man who has been abandoned and cannot return home to his loved one, with forlorn backup from Muscle Shoals sidemen Barry Beckett and Roger Hawkins; Motorcycle Man is the story of Frilly Fay watching her life slip away in a little roadside cafe. So many characters and too many lost dreams. Rick Danko and Richard Manuel play on this number with tenor from Bobby Keys. The remaining numbers all contain strong lyrics and characters that Simon really seems to understand in his songs, including Don't Forget What I Told You, Annie Looks Down and Did You See? Railroad Train Runnin' Up My Back has friends Rita Coolidge, Bobby Whitlock, Delany Bramlett and Carl Radle along for the ride». ~ Lee Gabites
Tracks: 1.The Song of the Elves 2.Nobody Knows 3.Tannenbaum 4.Davy's On The Road Again (J.Simon/J.R. Robertson) 5.Motorcycle Man 6.Rain Song 7.Don't Forget What I Told You 8.The Fool Dressed In Velvet 9.Annie Looks Down 10.Did You See? 11.Railroad Train Runnin' Up My Back
Musicians: Barry Beckett, organ Delaney Bramlett, tambourine Harvey Brooks, bass Merry Clayton, vocals Rita Coolidge, vocals Rick Danko, bass Jim Gordon, drums John Hall, guitar Paul Harris, organ Roger Hawkins, drums Levon Helm (?) Eddie Hinton, guitar Garth Hudson, soprano sax Wells Kelly, drums Bobby Keys, tenor sax Richard Manuel, drums Sherlie Mathews, vocals June Millington, bass Paul Prestopino, dobro Jim Price, trumpet Carl Radle, bass Leon Russell, guitar John Simon, lead vocals/piano/mandola/horns Grady Tate, drums Bobby Whitlock, vocals