D&B Together

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D&B Together
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Studio album by
Delaney & Bonnie and Friends
ReleasedMarch 1972
Recorded1969, 1971
Genre Blues rock
Blue-eyed soul
Country rock
Label Columbia
Producer Delaney Bramlett (original album, bonus tracks 1 and 2)
Delaney Bramlett/Doug Gilmore
(bonus tracks 4 and 6)
David Anderle
(bonus tracks 3 and 5)
Delaney & Bonnie and Friends chronology
Motel Shot
(1971)		D&B Together
(1972)		 The Best of Delaney & Bonnie
(1972)
Country Life Cover
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D&B Together (originally titled Country Life) is the sixth album by Delaney & Bonnie and Friends and their first for Columbia Records. It was their last album of new material, as Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett would divorce soon after its release.

Album collection of recorded music, words, sounds

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a collection on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78-rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP records played at ​33 1⁄3 rpm. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format widely used alongside vinyl from the 1970s into the first decade of the 2000s.

Delaney & Bonnie American husband and wife music duo

Delaney & Bonnie were the American musical duo of singer/songwriters Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett. In 1969 and 1970, they fronted a rock/soul ensemble, Delaney & Bonnie and Friends, whose members at different times included Duane Allman, Gregg Allman, George Harrison, Leon Russell, Bobby Whitlock, Dave Mason, Rita Coolidge, King Curtis, and Eric Clapton.

Delaney Bramlett American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer

Delaine Alvin "Delaney" Bramlett was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and producer. Bramlett's five-decade career reached peaks in creativity, performance, and fame in partnership with his then-wife, Bonnie Bramlett, in a revolving troupe of professional musicians and rock superstars known as Delaney & Bonnie & Friends.

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Background

Country Life, Delaney & Bonnie's sixth album, was anticipated by the artist's label Atco (Atlantic) Records following the success of their previous three albums and of "Never Ending Song of Love," a single from their last album Motel Shot ; moreover, Atlantic executive Jerry Wexler had developed a personal friendship with the artists. [2] The album was delivered to Atlantic behind schedule, and was rushed into distribution upon delivery in early 1972 (Atco catalog no. SD 33-383). However, Wexler found the album's quality unsatisfactory and quickly withdrew it from the market. Wexler discovered that Delaney and Bonnie's marriage was under strain, and responded by selling their contract and this album's master tapes to CBS. [3] CBS reordered the running sequence of the album as shown below, and re-released it in March 1972, using different cover art, as D&B Together (Columbia/CBS catalog no. KC 31377).

ATCO Records is an American record company and label founded in 1955 as a division of Atlantic Records. It was devised as an outlet for productions by one of Atlantic's founders, Herb Abramson, who had returned to the company from military service. It was also intended as a home for acts that did not fit the format of Atlantic, which was releasing blues, jazz, rhythm and blues, and soul. The Atco name is an abbreviation of ATlantic COrporation. Atco also provided distribution for other labels, including RSO Records, Volt, Island, Modern, Ruthless, and Rolling Stones Records.

Atlantic Records American record label

Atlantic Recording Corporation is an American record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegün and Herb Abramson. Over its first 20 years of operation, Atlantic earned a reputation as one of the most important American labels, specializing in jazz, R&B, and soul by Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Wilson Pickett, Sam and Dave, Ruth Brown and Otis Redding. Its position was greatly improved by its distribution deal with Stax. In 1967, Atlantic became a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, now the Warner Music Group, and expanded into rock and pop music with releases by Led Zeppelin and Yes.

<i>Motel Shot</i> 1971 studio album by Delaney & Bonnie and Friends

Motel Shot is the fourth studio album by Delaney & Bonnie and Friends, released in 1971. The album, their third for Atco/Atlantic and fifth overall, is a mostly acoustic set. The album's title refers to the impromptu, sometimes late-night, jam sessions pursued by touring musicians when on the road.

In 2003, Delaney Bramlett said, "I thought Country Life was a fine piece of work, so did Bonnie. Unfortunately, Jerry Wexler didn't agree." [4]

Guest musicians on the album include Eric Clapton, Leon Russell, Duane Allman, Dave Mason, John Hartford, Billy Preston, Tina Turner and Steve Cropper. The standout tracks (all issued prior to the album's release as singles on Atco/Atlantic) are "Move 'Em Out", "Only You Know and I Know", "Comin' Home" and "Groupie (Superstar)." The last two tracks on this album date back to Delaney and Bonnie's sessions for Eric Clapton in November 1969.

Eric Clapton English musician, singer, songwriter, and guitarist

Eric Patrick Clapton, is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He 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 of Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time. Clapton ranked second in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and fourth in Gibson's "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time". He was also named number five in Time magazine's list of "The 10 Best Electric Guitar Players" in 2009.

Leon Russell American singer-songwriter, guitarist, pianist and session musician

Leon Russell was an American musician and songwriter who was involved with numerous bestselling pop music records during his 60-year career. His genres included pop, country, rock, folk, gospel, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, folk rock, blues rock, surf, standards, and Tulsa Sound.

Duane Allman American musician

Howard Duane Allman was an American guitarist, session musician, and founder and leader of the Allman Brothers Band.

Track listing

  1. "Only You Know and I Know" (Dave Mason) – 3:26
  2. "Wade in the River of Jordan" (Traditional, arr. Delaney Bramlett) – 2:10
  3. "Sound of the City" (Delaney Bramlett, Joe Hicks) – 2:39
  4. "Well, Well" (Delaney Bramlett) – 3:03
  5. "I Know How It Feels to Be Lonely" (Bonnie Bramlett, Leon Ware) – 3:47
  6. "Comin' Home" (Bonnie Bramlett, Eric Clapton) – 3:13
  7. "Move 'Em Out" (Steve Cropper, Bettye Crutcher) – 2:50
  8. "Big Change Comin'" (Delaney Bramlett) – 3:22
  9. "A Good Thing (I'm on Fire)" (Delaney Bramlett, Gordon DeWitty) – 2:13
  10. "Groupie (Superstar)" (Delaney Bramlett, Leon Russell) – 2:49
  11. "I Know Something Good About You" (Delaney Bramlett, Joe Hicks) – 4:11
  12. "Country Life" (Delaney Bramlett, Bobby Whitlock) – 3:38

A remastered version of the album was released by Columbia/Legacy in 2003. This version of the album, which was compiled with Delaney Bramlett's assistance, contains six additional tracks recorded by Delaney and Bonnie during 1972–73 as solo artists following their breakup. The additional tracks are:

  1. Delaney Bramlett "Over and Over" (Delaney Bramlett) – 2:41
  2. Delaney Bramlett "I'm Not Your Lover, Just Your Lovee" (Delaney Bramlett, Doug Gilmore) – 4:28
  3. Bonnie Bramlett "Good Vibrations" (Gordon DeWitty) – 3:13
  4. Delaney Bramlett "Are You a Beatle or a Rolling Stone" (Delaney Bramlett, Doug Gilmore) – 3:22
  5. Bonnie Bramlett "(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am" (Jimmy Williams, Larry Harrison) – 3:58
  6. Delaney Bramlett "California Rain" (Delaney Bramlett, Doug Gilmore) – 3:52

Personnel

Bonnie Bramlett American singer

Bonnie Bramlett is an American singer and occasional actress known for her distinctive vocals in rock and pop music. She began as a backing vocalist for blues and R&B singers; performed with her husband, Delaney Bramlett, as Delaney & Bonnie; and continues to sing as a solo artist.

Dave Mason British musician

David Thomas Mason is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist from Worcester, who first found fame with the rock band Traffic. Over the course of his career, Mason has played and recorded with many notable pop and rock musicians, including Paul McCartney, George Harrison, the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Michael Jackson, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Steve Winwood, Fleetwood Mac, Delaney & Bonnie, Leon Russell and Cass Elliot. One of Mason's best known songs is "Feelin' Alright", recorded by Traffic in 1968 and later by many other performers, including Joe Cocker, whose version of the song was a hit in 1969. For Traffic, he also wrote "Hole in My Shoe", a psychedelic pop song that became a hit in its own right. "We Just Disagree", Mason's 1977 solo US hit, written by Jim Krueger, has become a staple of US classic hits and adult contemporary radio playlists.

Carl Dean Radle was an American bassist who toured and recorded with many of the most influential recording artists of the late 1960s and 1970s. He was posthumously inducted to the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame in 2006.

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Tom Dowd American recording engineer and producer

Thomas John Dowd was an American recording engineer and producer for Atlantic Records. He was credited with innovating the multitrack recording method. Dowd worked on a veritable "who's who" of recordings that encompassed blues, jazz, pop, rock and soul records.

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References

  1. ↑ Allmusic Review
  2. ↑ Wexler, Jerry and David Ritz (1993), Rhythm and the Blues, Knopf, ISBN   0-679-40102-4, pp. 252–255.
  3. ↑ Wexler and Ritz, Rhythm and the Blues, p. 263.
  4. ↑ Liner notes to the 2003 reissue of D&B Together, Columbia/Legacy Records, cat. no. CK 85743, p. 5.
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