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| Call of the Wild | ||||
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| Released | September 1973 | |||
| Recorded | June–July, 1973 | |||
| Studio | Sleepy Hollow Studios (Ithaca, New York) | |||
| Length | 38:01 | |||
| Label | DiscReet | |||
| Producer | Lew Futterman | |||
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Call of the Wild is the fifth studio album by The Amboy Dukes, credited as "Ted Nugent & The Amboy Dukes", released in 1973.
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AllMusic says that the composition of the Call of the Wild album was influenced by AM and FM radio hits of the period in which the album was recorded. [1] The publication says that the album's title track, which opens the album, is "not as blistering as ["Cat Scratch Fever"], but more metallic than the psychedelia/blues of the original Amboy Dukes", calling the song "more Jeff Beck gone rock than the quasi-Ozzie persona Nugent gleefully would embrace" in his subsequent albums under his own name, comparing the composition to the music of Spirit and Jo Jo Gunne. [1] AllMusic also said that "Sweet Revenge" lifted it's melody from the Grass Roots' song "Things I Should Have Said". [1] The website called the song "Pony Express" "a strange amalgam of '60s out-of-the-garage/heading-toward-stadiums riff rock", saying that it borrowed it's melody from Deep Purple's "Highway Star", and said that "Ain't It the Truth" was a piano boogie, comparing it to "Jumpin' Jack Flash". [1] The album's second side is sequenced to sound like a single continuous jam session. [1] AllMusic says that "Rot Gut" sounds like "Joe Perry emulating Jeff Beck". [1] "Below the Belt" contains keyboard and flute instrumentation played by Gabe Magno; AllMusic compared the song to the Rolling Stones' "2000 Light Years from Home", and called "Cannon Balls" a "heavy vocal progressive rocker". [1]
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AllMusic described the Call of the Wild album as "Ted Nugent going through another mutation, but shows him as more diverse and adventurous than he sometimes gets credit for". [1]
All tracks are written by Ted Nugent, except where indicated
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Call of the Wild" | 4:51 | |
| 2. | "Sweet Revenge" | 4:06 | |
| 3. | "Pony Express" | 5:21 | |
| 4. | "Ain't It the Truth" |
| 4:57 |
| Total length: | 19:05 | ||
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5. | "Renegade" | Grange | 3:25 |
| 6. | "Rot Gut" |
| 2:45 |
| 7. | "Below the Belt" | 7:03 | |
| 8. | "Cannon Balls" | 5:43 | |
| Total length: | 18:59 | ||
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