Bustin' Out
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Bustin' Out is the second album by American
United States
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 country rock
Country rock
Country rock is sub-genre of popular music, formed from the fusion of rock with country. The term is generally used to refer to the wave of rock musicians who began to record country-flavored records in the late 1960s and early 1970s, beginning with Bob Dylan and The Byrds; reaching its greatest...

 band Pure Prairie League
Pure Prairie League
Pure Prairie League, sometimes abbreviated PPL, is an American country-rock band whose roots began between 1964 and 1969 in Waverly, Ohio with Craig Fuller, George Powell, Tom McGrail, Jim Caughlan and John David Call. In 1970 McGrail named the band after a 19th century temperance union mentioned...

, released in 1972 (see 1972 in music
1972 in music
-Events:*January 17 – Highway 51 South in Memphis, Tennessee is renamed "Elvis Presley Boulevard"*January 20 – The début of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon at The Dome, Brighton, is halted by technical difficulties,...

). It features the hit song "Amie," which is segued into by "Falling In and Out of Love" (which is also reprised at the end of "Amie").

Track listing

  1. "Jazzman" (Holstein) - 2:34
  2. "Angel No. 9" (Fuller) - 4:55
  3. "Leave My Heart Alone" (Powell) - 4:24
  4. "Early Morning Riser" (Fuller) - 5:05
  5. "Falling in and out of Love" (Fuller) - 2:12
  6. "Amie" (Fuller) - 4:18
  7. "Boulder Skies" (Fuller) - 4:01
  8. "Angel" (Fuller) - 4:26
  9. "Call Me, Tell Me" (Fuller) - 2:41

The band

  • Craig Fuller
    Craig Fuller
    Craig Fuller is an American musician and songwriter. Co-founder of Pure Prairie League, along with John David Call and George Ed Powell. Fuller departed after their second album, Bustin' Out, due to draft board problems. He returned to the music business in 1976 for two LPs with American Flyer...

     - bass
    Bass guitar
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    , guitar, electric guitar
    Electric guitar
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    , vocals
  • George Powell - guitar, electric guitar, vocals
  • Billy Hinds - drums
    Drum kit
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Additional personnel

  • Dianne Brooks - vocals
    Singing
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    , background vocals
  • Steven Edney - background vocals
  • Al "Brisco" Clark - steel guitar
    Steel guitar
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  • Michael Connor - piano
    Piano
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    , keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
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  • Bob Ringe - percussion
    Percussion instrument
    A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

    , marimba
    Marimba
    The marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family. It consists of a set of wooden keys or bars with resonators. The bars are struck with mallets to produce musical tones. The keys are arranged as those of a piano, with the accidentals raised vertically and overlapping the natural keys ...

  • James Rolleston - bass
  • Mick Ronson
    Mick Ronson
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     - guitar, vocals, background vocals
  • Michael Connor - piano
  • Gary Smith - guitar

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)
Year Chart Position
1975 Pop Albums 34
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