The Amboy Dukes (album)
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The Amboy Dukes is the first studio album released by The Amboy Dukes
The Amboy Dukes
The Amboy Dukes were an American rock music band of the late 1960s and early 1970s from Detroit, Michigan, best remembered for their hit single "Journey to the Center of the Mind", and for launching the career of Ted Nugent...

 featuring Ted Nugent
Ted Nugent
Theodore Anthony "Ted" Nugent is an American guitarist, musician, singer, author, reserve police officer, and activist. From Detroit, Michigan, he originally gained fame as the lead guitarist of The Amboy Dukes, before embarking on a lengthy solo career...

. It was released in November 1967 on Mainstream Records
Mainstream Records
Mainstream Records was an American record label, which released jazz, rock music, and soundtracks during the 1970s.It was founded in 1964 by Bob Shad, and in its early history reissued material from Commodore Records and Time Records in addition to some new jazz material...

 (stereo S/6104, mono 56104).

A remastered CD reissue was released in 1992 by Mainstream Direct Ltd. with two bonus tracks (MDCD 910).

Side one

  1. "Baby, Please Don't Go
    Baby, Please Don't Go
    "Baby, Please Don't Go" is a blues song first recorded by Big Joe Williams in 1935. It is related to a group of early 20th century blues and work songs that include "I'm Alabama Bound", "Another Man Done Gone", and "Don't Leave Me Here", and "Turn Your Lamp Down Low".It has become a blues and rock...

    " (Big Joe Williams
    Big Joe Williams
    Joseph Lee Williams , billed throughout his career as Big Joe Williams, was an American Delta blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, notable for the distinctive sound of his nine-string guitar...

    ) – 5:35
  2. "I Feel Free
    I Feel Free
    "I Feel Free" is a song first recorded by British rock group Cream. The song's lyrics were written by Pete Brown, its music by Jack Bruce. It was the first track on the US issue of their debut album, Fresh Cream , and the band's second hit single...

    " (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...

    , Pete Brown
    Pete Brown
    Peter Ronald Brown is an English performance poet and lyricist.Best known for his collaborations with Jack Bruce, Brown also worked with The Battered Ornaments, formed his own group Pete Brown & Piblokto!, and worked with Graham Bond and Phil Ryan. Brown also writes film scores and formed a film...

    ) – 3:42
  3. "Young Love" (Ted Nugent
    Ted Nugent
    Theodore Anthony "Ted" Nugent is an American guitarist, musician, singer, author, reserve police officer, and activist. From Detroit, Michigan, he originally gained fame as the lead guitarist of The Amboy Dukes, before embarking on a lengthy solo career...

    , Steve Farmer) – 2:45
  4. "Psalms Of Aftermath" (Nugent, Farmer) – 3:19
  5. "Colors" (Nugent, Farmer, Rick Lober
    Rick Lober
    Rick Lober is the original keyboardist in the 1960s Detroit rock band The Amboy Dukes, with Ted Nugent and Steve Farmer. The Amboy Dukes were local favorites in the metro Detroit area long before Ted Nugent established himself as the 'Motor City Madman'....

    , Bill White
    Bill White
    -Politics:* Bill White – former mayor of the city of Houston and a candidate for the Texas gubernatorial election in 2010...

    ) – 3:20

Side two

  1. "Let's Go Get Stoned" (Valerie Simpson, Nick Ashford, Jo Armstead
    Jo Armstead
    Josephine "Jo" Armstead , often known as "Joshie" Jo Armstead, is an American soul singer and songwriter. She co-wrote Ray Charles' hits "Let's Go Get Stoned" and "I Don't Need No Doctor", among other songs written with Ashford & Simpson...

    ) – 4:24
  2. "Down On Philips Escalator" (Nugent, Farmer) – 3:00
  3. "The Lovely Lady" (Farmer) – 2:58
  4. "Night Time" (Nugent, Farmer) – 3:11
  5. "It's Not True" (Pete Townshend
    Pete Townshend
    Peter Dennis Blandford "Pete" Townshend is an English rock guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and author, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for the rock group The Who, as well as for his own solo career...

    ) – 2:42
  6. "Gimme Love" (Nugent, Farmer) – 2:43

CD bonus tracks

  1. "J.B. Special" (Nugent, Farmer) – 2:33
  2. "Sobbin' In My Mug Of Beer" (Nugent, Farmer) – 2:22

Personnel

  • Ted Nugent
    Ted Nugent
    Theodore Anthony "Ted" Nugent is an American guitarist, musician, singer, author, reserve police officer, and activist. From Detroit, Michigan, he originally gained fame as the lead guitarist of The Amboy Dukes, before embarking on a lengthy solo career...

     – guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

  • John (J.B.) Drake – vocals
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

  • Steve Farmer – guitar
  • Rick Lober
    Rick Lober
    Rick Lober is the original keyboardist in the 1960s Detroit rock band The Amboy Dukes, with Ted Nugent and Steve Farmer. The Amboy Dukes were local favorites in the metro Detroit area long before Ted Nugent established himself as the 'Motor City Madman'....

     – piano
    Piano
    The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

    , organ
    Organ (music)
    The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...

  • Dave Palmer – drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

  • Bill White – bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

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