Uncle Dog
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Uncle Dog is a band that released an album and single in 1972.
Members of Uncle Dog were:
Pearson played on 4 tracks and was replaced as a member by Terry Stannard who appears on the rest of the album.
Guest musicians on the LP were Paul Kossoff
, guitar on "We Got Time" and John 'Rabbit' Bundrick
(piano). Most of the songs were penned by Dave Skinner, although there are a few covers, including Bob Dylan
's "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" (from John Wesley Harding
) and Sam Phillips
/Herman Parker's "Mystery Train
".
John Porter
became a producer and produced The Smiths
and John Lee Hooker
's comeback album in 1989. Mitchell played with Clancy and The Sandmen. Skinner also played in Clancy and 801 while Stannard was in Kokomo later.
Members of Uncle Dog were:
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- vocals - Phillip Crooks - guitar
- Sam Mitchell - guitar
- John PorterJohn Porter (musician)John Porter is an English musician and record producer.-Biography:He attended St Michael's School, Allerton Grange School, King's College, and Newcastle University....
- guitar, bass - David Skinner - keyboards, vocals (ex-Twice as MuchTwice as MuchTwice as Much was composed of David Skinner and Andrew Rose and were harmony singers who also wrote much of their own material...
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- drums
Pearson played on 4 tracks and was replaced as a member by Terry Stannard who appears on the rest of the album.
Guest musicians on the LP were Paul Kossoff
Paul Kossoff
Paul Francis Kossoff was an English rock guitarist best known as a member of the band Free.Kossoff was ranked 51st in Rolling Stone magazine list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" -Early days:...
, guitar on "We Got Time" and John 'Rabbit' Bundrick
John Bundrick
John Douglas "Rabbit" Bundrick is an American rock keyboardist, pianist and organist. He is best known for his work with The Who and associations with others including Eric Burdon, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Roger Waters, Free and Crawler. Bundrick is noted as the principal musician for the cult...
(piano). Most of the songs were penned by Dave Skinner, although there are a few covers, including Bob 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...
's "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" (from John Wesley Harding
John Wesley Harding (album)
John Wesley Harding is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's eighth studio album, released by Columbia Records in December 1967.Produced by Bob Johnston, the album marked Dylan's return to acoustic music and traditional roots, after three albums of electric rock music...
) and Sam Phillips
Sam Phillips
Samuel Cornelius Phillips , better known as Sam Phillips, was an American businessman, record executive, record producer and DJ who played an important role in the emergence of rock and roll as the major form of popular music in the 1950s...
/Herman Parker's "Mystery Train
Mystery Train
"Mystery Train" is a song written by Junior Parker and Sam Phillips. It was first recorded in Phillip's Memphis Recording Service and Sun Records at 706 Union Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee in 1953. Raymond Hill plays tenor sax and Matt Murphy plays lead guitar with Bill Johnson on piano, Pat Hare on...
".
John Porter
John Porter (musician)
John Porter is an English musician and record producer.-Biography:He attended St Michael's School, Allerton Grange School, King's College, and Newcastle University....
became a producer and produced The Smiths
The Smiths
The Smiths were an English alternative rock band, formed in Manchester in 1982. Based on the song writing partnership of Morrissey and Johnny Marr , the band also included Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce...
and John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker was an American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist.Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper, William Hooker, and rose to prominence performing his own unique style of what was originally closest to Delta blues. He developed a 'talking blues' style that was his trademark...
's comeback album in 1989. Mitchell played with Clancy and The Sandmen. Skinner also played in Clancy and 801 while Stannard was in Kokomo later.
- Album: Old Hat (Signpost SG 4253) 1972
- River Road
- Movie Time
- Old Hat
- Boogie With Me
- We Got Time
- Smoke
- I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (Dylan)
- Mystery Train (Phillips/Parker)
- Lose Me
- 45: "River Road" b/w "First Night" (Signpost SGP 752) 1972