Music From Free Creek
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Music From Free Creek is an album from a series of 1969 "super session" recordings by Free Creek
, a group composed of a number of internationally renowned musical artists of the time, including Eric Clapton
, Jeff Beck
, Keith Emerson
, Mitch Mitchell
and Linda Ronstadt
. As described by one reviewer, "Music From Free Creek is a super session album, where the musicians are playing for the fun of it, and that comes across. The material doesn't get bogged down in 'names'; it just flows."
and in the U.S. by Buddah Records
, as a two-record set. The material was re-released by Charisma in 1976, as Summit Meeting. It was released on CD by Lake Eerie Records in 2002, and re-released by the same company in 2006. The 2006 CD states on its inlay card Digitally Remastered, but there is no other information to support this claim - the CD states only 1973 as production date, with 2006 added as a copyright date.
(lyrics by Tom Cosgrove and Stu Woods, music by Moogy Klingman)
2. Road Song (Klingman)
3. Getting Back To Molly (Klingman)
(A. Neville
, L. Nocentelli, G. Porter, Jr. and J. Modeliste)
5. Big City Woman (Klingman)
6. Cherrypicker
(Jeff Beck, Moogy Klingman, Stu Woods and Roy Markowitz)
7. Working in a Coalmine
(Written by Allen Toussaint
)
)
9. On the Rebound (Floyd Cramer
)
10. Mother Nature's Son
(Lennon and McCartney)
(Jagger/Richards
)
12. Earl's Shuffle (Harvey Mandel and Earle Doud)
13. Girl from Ipanema
(Antonio Carlos Jobim and Norman Gimbel)
(Lennon and McCartney)
15. Lay Lady Lay
(Dylan
)
16. Kilpatrick's Defeat (Moogy Klingman and Mike Gayle
)
18. He Darked the Sun (Bernie Leadon and Gene Clark
)
The Free Creek Horns are:
The Free Creek Singers are:
Produced by Earle Doud and Tom Flye
Executive Producer and Musical Director: Moogy Klingman
Engineers: Tony Bongiovi
and Jack Hunt
Additional mixes: Keith Emerson and Neil Slaven
Album cover painting by Ronchetti and Day
Album cover design: Hipgnosis
LP 1, side A (ADS1A, stated running time 17:52)
LP1, side B (ADS1B, stated running time 15:50)
LP2, side A (ADS2A, stated running time 17:21)
LP2, side B (ADS2B, stated running time 15:42)
The 2006 Lake Eerie single CD Free Creek LER 43014 has the same 18 tracks in the same order from LP1 side A through to LP2 side B, with some minor variations in track titles and musician credits.
Free Creek (band)
Free Creek was a band composed of many internationally renowned musical artists, including Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Keith Emerson, Mitch Mitchell and Linda Ronstadt, who recorded one album, in 1969, in a "super session" format.- Personnel :...
, a group composed of a number of internationally renowned musical artists of the time, including 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...
, Jeff Beck
Jeff Beck
Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck is an English rock guitarist. He is one of three noted guitarists to have played with The Yardbirds...
, Keith Emerson
Keith Emerson
Keith Noel Emerson is an English keyboard player and composer. Formerly a member of the Keith Emerson Trio, John Brown's Bodies, The T-Bones, V.I.P.s, P.P. Arnold's backing band, and The Nice , he was a founder of Emerson, Lake & Palmer , one of the early supergroups, in 1970...
, Mitch Mitchell
Mitch Mitchell
John Ronald "Mitch" Mitchell was an English drummer, best known for his work in The Jimi Hendrix Experience.-Early life and the Jimi Hendrix Experience:...
and Linda Ronstadt
Linda Ronstadt
Linda Ronstadt is an American popular music recording artist. She has earned eleven Grammy Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, an ALMA Award, numerous United States and internationally certified gold, platinum and multiplatinum albums, in addition to Tony Award and Golden...
. As described by one reviewer, "Music From Free Creek is a super session album, where the musicians are playing for the fun of it, and that comes across. The material doesn't get bogged down in 'names'; it just flows."
History
The recordings, made in 1969, were released in 1973 in England as CADS 101 by Charisma RecordsCharisma Records
Charisma was a record label founded by former journalist Tony Stratton-Smith in 1969. Manager for The Nice, the Bonzo Dog Band and Van der Graaf Generator at the time, Stratton-Smith was unable to find a record company willing to release an album by one of his favourite groups so he founded his own...
and in the U.S. by Buddah Records
Buddah Records
Buddah Records was founded in 1967 in New York City. The label was born out of Kama Sutra Records, an MGM Records-distributed label, which remained a key imprint following Buddah's founding...
, as a two-record set. The material was re-released by Charisma in 1976, as Summit Meeting. It was released on CD by Lake Eerie Records in 2002, and re-released by the same company in 2006. The 2006 CD states on its inlay card Digitally Remastered, but there is no other information to support this claim - the CD states only 1973 as production date, with 2006 added as a copyright date.
The Eric Clapton ("King Cool") Session
1. No One Knows(lyrics by Tom Cosgrove and Stu Woods, music by Moogy Klingman)
- Guitar - Eric ClaptonEric ClaptonEric 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...
(as "King Cool") - Lead Vocal - Eric MercuryEric MercuryEric Mercury is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and musician. He was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario into a family of musicians. He performed with groups including The Pharaohs and Eric Mercury and the Soul Searchers in the 1960s, and moved to Chicago in 1968 to perform by himself. His debut...
- Organ - Dr. JohnDr. JohnMalcolm John "Mac" Rebennack, Jr. , better known by the stage name Dr. John , is an American singer-songwriter, pianist and guitarist, whose music combines blues, pop, jazz as well as Zydeco, boogie woogie and rock and roll.Active as a session musician since the late 1950s, he came to wider...
- Piano - Moogy KlingmanMoogy KlingmanMark "Moogy" Klingman was an American musician and songwriter. He was a founding member of Todd Rundgren's musical team Utopia, and later became a solo recording artist, bandleader and songwriter...
- Bass - Stu Woods
- Drums - Richard Crooks
- The Free Creek Horns* & the Free Creek singers*
2. Road Song (Klingman)
- Lead Guitar - Eric Clapton
- Piano - Dr. John
- Lead Vocals - Tom Cosgrove and Buzzy LinhartBuzzy LinhartBuzzy Linhart is an American rock performer and musician.Born William Linhart in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he began honing his craft playing percussion for symphony at the age of seven, switching to vibraphone at ten...
- Organ - Moogy Klingman
- Rhythm Guitar - Delaney BramlettDelaney BramlettDelaney Bramlett was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and producer. Bramlett's five decade career reached peaks in creativity, performance, and notoriety in partnership with his then wife Bonnie Bramlett, in a revolving troupe of professional musicians and Rock superstars dubbed Delaney...
- Bass - Stu Woods
- Drums - Richard Crooks
3. Getting Back To Molly (Klingman)
- Guitars - Eric Clapton (1st solo), Dr. John (2nd solo)
- Lead Vocal - Earle Doude
- Harmonica - Moogy Klingman
- Free Creeks Singers*
The Jeff Beck ("A.N. Other") Session
4. Cissy Strut(A. Neville
Art Neville
Art Neville is an American singer and keyboardist from New Orleans.-History:Neville is a part of one of the most famous musical families of New Orleans, the Neville Brothers...
, L. Nocentelli, G. Porter, Jr. and J. Modeliste)
- Guitars - Jeff BeckJeff BeckGeoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck is an English rock guitarist. He is one of three noted guitarists to have played with The Yardbirds...
(1st solo, as "A.N. Other"), Todd RundgrenTodd RundgrenTodd Harry Rundgren is an American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and record producer. Hailed in the early stage of his career as a new pop-wunderkind, supported by the certified gold solo double LP Something/Anything? in 1972, Todd Rundgren's career has produced a diverse range of recordings...
(2nd solo) - Organ - Moogy Klingman
- Bass - Stu Woods
- Drums - Roy Markowitz
- The Free Creek Horns*
5. Big City Woman (Klingman)
- Guitar - Jeff Beck
- Piano - Moogy Klingman
- Bass - Stu Woods
- Drums - Roy Markowitz
- Lead Vocal - Tommy Cosgrove
6. Cherrypicker
(Jeff Beck, Moogy Klingman, Stu Woods and Roy Markowitz)
- Guitars - Jeff Beck, Todd Rundgren
- Organ - Moogy Klingman
- Bass - Stu Woods
- Drums - Roy Markowitz
7. Working in a Coalmine
Working in the Coal Mine
"Working in the Coal Mine" is a song with music and lyrics by Allen Toussaint.After Toussaint returned to New Orleans from the Army , he formed a production company, Sansu, with partner Marshall Sehorn. A number of singles, performed by Lee Dorsey, followed in 1965-66, including "Working in the...
(Written by Allen Toussaint
Allen Toussaint
Allen Toussaint is an American musician, composer, record producer, and influential figure in New Orleans R&B.Many of Toussaint's songs have become familiar through numerous cover versions, including "Working in the Coalmine", "Ride Your Pony", "Fortune Teller", "Play Something Sweet ", "Southern...
)
- Guitar - Jeff Beck
- Organ - Moogy Klingman, Bob Smith
- Bass - Stu Woods
- Drums - Roy Markowitz
The Keith Emerson Session
8. Freedom Jazz Dance (Eddie HarrisEddie Harris
Eddie Harris was an American jazz musician, best known for playing tenor saxophone and for introducing the electrically amplified saxophone. He was also fluent on the electric piano and organ...
)
- Piano - Keith EmersonKeith EmersonKeith Noel Emerson is an English keyboard player and composer. Formerly a member of the Keith Emerson Trio, John Brown's Bodies, The T-Bones, V.I.P.s, P.P. Arnold's backing band, and The Nice , he was a founder of Emerson, Lake & Palmer , one of the early supergroups, in 1970...
- Guitar - Buzzy Feiten
- Drums - Mitch MitchellMitch MitchellJohn Ronald "Mitch" Mitchell was an English drummer, best known for his work in The Jimi Hendrix Experience.-Early life and the Jimi Hendrix Experience:...
- Piano - Moogy Klingman
- Bass - Chuck RaineyChuck RaineyChuck Rainey, is an American bass guitar session musician, known for playing with many well-known American musicians and acts, including Donald Byrd, Steely Dan, Quincy Jones, and Aretha Franklin.-Biography:Rainey's youthful pursuits included violin, piano and trumpet...
9. On the Rebound (Floyd Cramer
Floyd Cramer
Floyd Cramer was an American Hall of Fame pianist who was one of the architects of the "Nashville sound." He popularized the "slip note" piano style where an out-of-tune note slides effortlessly into the correct note...
)
- Piano - Keith Emerson
- Guitar - Buzzy Feiten
- Bass - Chuck Rainey
- Drums - Mitch Mitchell
- Occasional Voice - Geri Miller
10. Mother Nature's Son
Mother Nature's Son
"Mother Nature's Son" is a Lennon–McCartney song, written primarily by Paul McCartney and released by The Beatles on The Beatles . It was inspired by a lecture given by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi while the Beatles were in India. The same lecture inspired Lennon's unreleased song "Child of Nature",...
(Lennon and McCartney)
- Piano - Keith Emerson
- Acoustic Guitar - Carol HunterCarol HunterCarol Hunter is an American guitarist and vocalist notable for her work with Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Richie Havens, Janis Ian and others. Hunter was also one of the first prominent female instrumentalists in rock music.- Biography & Musical History :...
- Oboe - Lou Delgato
- String Bass - Richard Davis
The Harvey Mandel Session
11. Sympathy for the DevilSympathy for the Devil
"Sympathy for the Devil" is a song by The Rolling Stones which first appeared as the opening track on the band's 1968 album Beggars Banquet. It was written by Mick Jagger credited to Jagger/Richards...
(Jagger/Richards
Jagger/Richards
The songwriting partnership of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, known as Jagger/Richards , is a musical collaboration whose output has produced the majority of the catalogue of The Rolling Stones....
)
- Lead Guitar - Harvey MandelHarvey MandelHarvey Mandel is an American guitarist known for his innovative approach to electric guitar playing. A professional at twenty, he played with Charlie Musselwhite, Canned Heat, The Rolling Stones, and John Mayall before starting a solo career...
- Rhythm Guitar - Jack Wilkens
- Organ - Moogy Klingman
- Piano - Jimmy GreenspoonJimmy GreenspoonJimmy Greenspoon is an American keyboard player, best known as a member of the band, Three Dog Night. He currently lives in Montgomery County, Maryland....
- Bass - Larry TaylorLarry TaylorLarry Taylor is an American bass guitarist, best known for his work as a member of Canned Heat from 1967. Before joining Canned Heat he had been a session bassist for The Monkees and Jerry Lee Lewis...
- Violin - Larry Packer
- Drums - Fito de la Parra
- Congas - Billy Chesboro
- Bongos - Didymus
12. Earl's Shuffle (Harvey Mandel and Earle Doud)
- Lead Guitar - Harvey Mandel
- Pedal Steel Guitar - Red RhodesRed RhodesRhodes played pedal steel on many country rock, pop and rock albums with The Monkees, James Taylor, Seals and Crofts, The Byrds, The Carpenters and many other groups. He is most often remembered for his work with former Monkee Michael Nesmith on Nesmith's first solo albums in the early 1970s...
- Organ - Jimmy Greenspoon
- Bass - Larry Taylor
- Drums - Fito de la Parra
13. Girl from Ipanema
The Girl from Ipanema
"Garota de Ipanema" is a well-known bossa nova song, a worldwide hit in the mid-1960s that won a Grammy for Record of the Year in 1965. It was written in 1962, with music by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Portuguese lyrics by Vinicius de Moraes. English lyrics were written later by Norman Gimbel.The...
(Antonio Carlos Jobim and Norman Gimbel)
- Lead Guitar - Harvey Mandel
- Pedal Steel Guitar - Red Rhodes
- Bass - Larry Taylor
- Drums - Fito de la Parra
- Shakers - Didymus
- Wood Blocks - Earle Doud
Odds & Sods
14. Hey JudeHey Jude
"Hey Jude" is a song by the English rock band The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. The ballad evolved from "Hey Jules", a song widely accepted as being written to comfort John Lennon's son, Julian, during his parents' divorce—although this explanation is not...
(Lennon and McCartney)
- Lead Guitar - Buzzy Feiten
- Organ - Moogy Klingman
- Drums - Mitch Mitchell
- Bass - Richard Davis
- Rhythm Guitar - Elliot Randall
- The Free Creek Horns*
15. Lay Lady Lay
Lay Lady Lay
"Lay Lady Lay" is a song written by Bob Dylan and originally released in 1969 on his Nashville Skyline album. Like many of the tracks on the album, Dylan sings the song in a low croon, rather than in the high nasal singing style associated with his earlier recordings...
(Dylan
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
)
- Flutes - Joe FarrellJoe FarrellJoseph Carl Firrantello , known as Joe Farrell, was an American jazz saxophonist and flutist. He is best known for a series of albums under his own name on the CTI record label and for playing in the initial incarnation of Chick Corea's Return to Forever.-Biography:Farrell was born in Chicago...
(solo), Chris WoodChris Wood (rock musician)Christopher Gordon Blandford 'Chris' Wood was a founding member of the English rock band Traffic, along with Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, and Dave Mason.... - Piano - Moogy Klingman
- Guitar - Doug Rodriguez
- Bass - Stu Woods
- Drums - Roy Markowitz
16. Kilpatrick's Defeat (Moogy Klingman and Mike Gayle
Mike Gayle
Mike Gayle is a British author.- Biography :Mr. Gayle is a chick-lit author and freelance journalist contributing to a variety of magazines including FHM and Sunday Times Style....
)
- Lead Vocal - Timmy Harrison
- Guitars - Carol Hunter and Buzzy Feiten
- Bass - Stu Woods
The Linda Ronstadt Session
17. Living Like a Fool (Maxwell and Crutchfield)- Lead Vocal - Linda RonstadtLinda RonstadtLinda Ronstadt is an American popular music recording artist. She has earned eleven Grammy Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, an ALMA Award, numerous United States and internationally certified gold, platinum and multiplatinum albums, in addition to Tony Award and Golden...
- Guitar - Bernie LeadonBernie LeadonBernard Mathew "Bernie" Leadon, III is an American musician and songwriter, best known as a founding member of the Eagles. Prior to the Eagles, he was a member of two pioneering and highly influential country rock bands, Dillard & Clark and the Flying Burrito Brothers...
- Pedal Steel Guitar - Red Rhodes
- Piano - Jimmy Greenspoon
- Bass - John LondonJohn LondonJohn Carl Kuehne , better known as John London, was an American musician and songwriter, and was involved in several Hollywood television and movie productions...
- Drums - John WareJohn WareJohn Ware was an African-American and later African-Canadian cowboy, best remembered for his ability to ride and train horses and for bringing the first cattle to southern Alberta in 1882, helping to create that province's important ranching industry.Ware was born into slavery in South Carolina...
18. He Darked the Sun (Bernie Leadon and Gene Clark
Gene Clark
Gene Clark, born Harold Eugene Clark was an American singer-songwriter, and one of the founding members of the folk-rock group The Byrds....
)
- Lead Vocal - Linda Ronstadt
- Guitar - Bernie Leadon
- Pedal Steel Guitar - Red Rhodes
- Piano - Jimmy Greenspoon
- Bass - John London
- Drums - John Ware
- Violin - Chris Darrow
The Free Creek Horns are:
- Lou Delgato
- Bobby Keller
- Meco Monardo
- Tom MaloneTom Malone (musician)Tom "Bones" Malone is an American jazz musician. As his nickname implies, he specializes on the trombone, but also plays trumpet, tuba, tenor sax, baritone sax, flutes, piccolo, and other instruments....
- Lew SoloffLew SoloffLew Soloff is a jazz trumpeter, composer and actor. He studied trumpet at the Eastman School of Music and the Juilliard School. He is likely best known for his work with Blood, Sweat & Tears from 1968 to 1973...
- Alan RubinAlan RubinAlan Rubin , also known as Mr. Fabulous, was an American musician. He played trumpet, flugelhorn, and piccolo trumpet....
- Bill ChaseBill ChaseBill Chase was an American trumpet player and leader of the jazz-rock fusion band Chase.-Biography:...
The Free Creek Singers are:
- Valerie Simpson
- Maretha Stewart
- Hilda Harris
Other Credits and Particulars
Music From Free Creek was recorded and mixed in New York City at The Record Plant, June, July & August, 1969Produced by Earle Doud and Tom Flye
Executive Producer and Musical Director: Moogy Klingman
Engineers: Tony Bongiovi
Tony Bongiovi
Tony Bongiovi is a record producer and recording engineer with expertise in Electrical & Acoustical Engineering. He helped to remodel an old building in Manhattan—once a power plant for Edison, and later a television studio—into the Power Station recording studio in 1977.Bongiovi was born in the...
and Jack Hunt
Additional mixes: Keith Emerson and Neil Slaven
Album cover painting by Ronchetti and Day
Album cover design: Hipgnosis
Hipgnosis
Hipgnosis was a British art design group that specialized in creating cover art for the albums of rock musicians and bands, most notably Pink Floyd, T.Rex, The Pretty Things, UFO, 10cc, Bad Company, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Scorpions, Yes, The Alan Parsons Project, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, ELO and XTC...
Track listing
The UK release of the double LP arranges the tracks in the following order:LP 1, side A (ADS1A, stated running time 17:52)
- Cissy Strut
- Freedom Jazz Dance
- Sympathy for the Devil
- Mother Nature's Son
- Road Song
LP1, side B (ADS1B, stated running time 15:50)
- Lay Lady Lay
- Hey Jude
- He Darked the Sun
- Earl's Shuffle
LP2, side A (ADS2A, stated running time 17:21)
- Getting Back to Molly
- Cherrypicker
- Kilpatrick's Defeat
- Girl From Ipanema
- No One Knows
LP2, side B (ADS2B, stated running time 15:42)
- Living Like a Fool
- Working in a Coalmine
- Big City Woman
- On the Rebound
The 2006 Lake Eerie single CD Free Creek LER 43014 has the same 18 tracks in the same order from LP1 side A through to LP2 side B, with some minor variations in track titles and musician credits.