Brujo | ||||
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Released | November 1974 | |||
Recorded | 1974 | |||
Genre | Country rock | |||
Length | 34:17 | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Producer | Ed Freeman | |||
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Brujo is an album by the American country rock band New Riders of the Purple Sage. It is their fifth studio album, and their sixth album overall. It was recorded in 1974 and released that same year by Columbia Records.
Brujo was the first New Riders album to feature ex-Byrd Skip Battin. Battin had replaced Dave Torbert as the New Riders' bass player after Torbert left to form Kingfish.
One single was released in conjunction with the album—"You Angel You"/"Parson Brown".
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