Ginger Baker's Air Force 2 was the second and final album by Ginger Baker's Air Force

Ginger Baker's Air Force

Ginger Baker's Air Force was a jazz-rock fusion band comprising Ginger Baker on drums, Steve Winwood on organ and vocals, Ric Grech on violin and bass, Jeanette Jacobs on vocals, Denny Laine on guitar and vocals, Phil Seamen on drums, Alan White on drums, Chris Wood on tenor sax and flute, Graham...

, released in 1970 (see 1970 in music

1970 in music

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). In Germany it was released with a different track listing, including previously unreleased songs.

This album was recorded in a studio, unlike the previous one, featuring a different lineup of the band, with Denny Laine, Harold McNair, Aliki Ashman, and Rick Grech as "Additional personnel". Graham Bond took lead vocal duties along with Baker, Diane Stewart and Catherine James.

UK version

1. "Let Me Ride" (Roebuck Staples) –4:22
2. "Sweet Wine" (Ginger Baker, Janet Godfrey
   Janet Godfrey
   Janet Godfrey was the second wife and some-time writing partner of bassist Jack Bruce. Together, Godfrey and Bruce had two sons, Jonas Bruce, who grew up to play keyboards in his father's band and formed a band AfroCelts, and Malcolm Bruce, who grew up to play the guitar with his father and played...
   
   ) –3:34
3. "Do U No Hu Yor Phrenz R?" (Ginger Baker
   Ginger Baker
   Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker is an English drummer, best known for his work with Cream and Blind Faith. He is also known for his numerous associations with World music, mainly the use of African influences...
   
   ) –5:40
4. "We Free Kings" (Ginger Baker) –4:22
5. "I Don't Want to go on Without You" (Bert Berns
   Bert Berns
   Bertrand Russell Berns , most commonly known as Bert Berns as well as Bert Russell and Russell Byrd, was an American songwriter and record producer of the 1960s...
   
   , Jerry Wexler
   Jerry Wexler
   Gerald "Jerry" Wexler was a music journalist turned music producer, and was regarded as one of the major record industry players behind music from the 1950s through the 1980s...
   
   ) –3:56
6. "Toady" (Ginger Baker) –8:21
7. "12 Gates of the City" (Graham Bond
   Graham Bond
   Graham John Clifton Bond was an English musician, considered a founding father of the English rhythm and blues boom of the 1960s....
   
   ) –4:05

German version

1. "We Free Kings" - Alternate take (Ginger Baker) -4:57
2. "Caribbean Soup" (Harold McNair) -3:10
3. "Sunshine of Your Love
   Sunshine of Your Love
   "Sunshine of Your Love" is a 1967 song by the British supergroup Cream. The song was originally released on the album Disraeli Gears in November 1967, and was later released as a single in January 1968. It is Cream's only gold-selling single in the United States. It features a distinctive...
   
   " (Jack Bruce
   Jack Bruce
   John Symon Asher "Jack" Bruce is a Scottish musician and songwriter, respected as a founding member of the British psychedelic rock power trio, Cream, for a solo career that spans several decades, and for his participation in several well-known musical ensembles...
   
   , Peter Brown
   Peter Brown (singer)
   Peter Brown is an artist, songwriter and record producer. He grew up in Palos Heights, another Chicago suburb. His mother, Virginia, was artistic and musically talented and gave Peter music lessons at a very young age. Peter’s father, Maurice, was an electronic engineer and unwittingly helped him...
   
   , Eric Clapton
   Eric Clapton
   Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and...
   
   ) -5:49
4. "You Wouldn't Believe It" (Denny Laine
   Denny Laine
   Denny Laine is an English songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, guitarist, and lead singer of The Moody Blues' 1965 debut album "The Magnificent Moodies"; and, later, best known for his role as co-founder of Wings...
   
   , Ginger Baker) -3:42
5. "You Look Like You Could Use A Rest" (Rick Grech) -3:42
6. "Sweet Wine" (Ginger Baker, Janet Godfrey) -3:34
7. "I Don't Want to go on Without You" (Bert Berns, Jerry Wexler) -3:56
8. "Let Me Ride" (Roebuck Staples) -4:23

Personnel

• Ginger Baker
  Ginger Baker
  Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker is an English drummer, best known for his work with Cream and Blind Faith. He is also known for his numerous associations with World music, mainly the use of African influences...
  
  : Drums, Tympani, Tubular Bells, African Drums, vocals.
• Ken Craddock: Guitars, Hammond organ, piano, vocals.
• Colin Gibson
  Colin Gibson (musician)
  Colin Gibson is a bass player and composer.-Biography:Gibson and guitarist John Turnbull were childhood friends and played together in a band called The Primitive Sect, wth Bob Sergeant on organ. In summer 1966, Gibson and Turnbull joined unsigned, Newcastle band The Chosen Few...
  
  : Bass guitar.
• Graham Bond
  Graham Bond
  Graham John Clifton Bond was an English musician, considered a founding father of the English rhythm and blues boom of the 1960s....
  
  : Alto saxophone, Hammond organ, piano, vocals.
• Steve Gregory
  Steve Gregory
  Steve Gregory is an English jazz saxophonist and composer. He plays tenor, alto, soprano and baritone saxophone as well as the flute.Steve Gregory was born in the UK. At St. Paul's School he learned guitar and piano and played clarinet in the school orchestra. He turned down a place at the...
  
  : Tenor Saxophone, flutes.
• Bud Beadle: Baritone, alto & tenor saxophones.
• Diane Stewart: Vocals.
• Catherine James: Vocals.
• Neemoi "Speedy" Acquaye: Drums, percussion, African drums.

Additional personnel

• Denny Laine
  Denny Laine
  Denny Laine is an English songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, guitarist, and lead singer of The Moody Blues' 1965 debut album "The Magnificent Moodies"; and, later, best known for his role as co-founder of Wings...
  
  : Guitars, piano, vocals.
• Rick Grech : Bass guitar.
• Harold McNair
  Harold McNair
  Harold McNair was a renowned saxophonist and flautist.-Background:...
  
  : Tenor & alto saxophones, flutes.
• Aliki Ashman: Vocals.
• Rocki Dzidzornu: Percussion, conga.