Demolition Derby (album)

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Demolition Derby
Sandy Bull - Demolition Derby.jpg
Studio album by
Sandy Bull
Released1972
Genre Folk
Length38:05
Label Vanguard
Producer Sandy Bull
Sandy Bull chronology
E Pluribus Unum
(1969)		Demolition Derby
(1972)		 Jukebox School of Music
(1988)
Professional ratings
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Demolition Derby is the fourth album by folk guitarist Sandy Bull, released in 1972 through Vanguard Records. Songwriter Patti Smith, who was a known admirer of Bull's work, said "Even at its most 'cosmic,' Demolition Derby is still sleazy... juicy... American. Yeah it's a real cool record." [2]

Folk music Music of the people

Folk music includes traditional folk music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted orally, music with unknown composers, or music performed by custom over a long period of time. It has been contrasted with commercial and classical styles. The term originated in the 19th century, but folk music extends beyond that.

Alexander "Sandy" Bull was an American folk musician and composer. Bull was an accomplished player of many stringed instruments, including guitar, pedal steel guitar, banjo, and oud. His early work blends non-western instruments with 1960s folk revival, and has been cited as important in the development of psychedelic music.

Vanguard Records Record label

Vanguard Records is an American record label set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in New York City. It was a primarily classical label throughout its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, but is perhaps best known for its catalogue of recordings by a number of pivotal jazz, folk, and blues musicians. The Bach Guild was a subsidiary label.

Contents

Accolades

YearPublicationCountryAccoladeRank
2010 Uncut United Kingdom"The 50 Greatest Lost Albums"46 [3]
"*" denotes an unordered list.

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Gotta Be Juicy" Bull 5:08
2."Carnival Jump"Bull9:00
3."Tennessee Waltz" King, Stewart 3:10
4."Sweet Baby Jumper"Bull2:51
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Last Date" Cramer 2:35
2."Easy Does It" Bull 9:19
3."Coming Together"Bull5:58
4."Cheeseburger"Bull0:02

Personnel

Guitar Fretted string instrument

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings. It is typically played with both hands by strumming or plucking the strings with either a guitar pick or the finger(s)/fingernails of one hand, while simultaneously fretting with the fingers of the other hand. The sound of the vibrating strings is projected either acoustically, by means of the hollow chamber of the guitar, or through an electrical amplifier and a speaker.

Banjo musical instrument

The banjo is a four-, five-, or six-stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity as a resonator, called the head, which is typically circular. The membrane is typically made of plastic, although animal skin is still occasionally used. Early forms of the instrument were fashioned by Africans in the United States, adapted from African instruments of similar design. The banjo is frequently associated with folk, Irish traditional, and country music. Banjo can also be used in some rock songs. Many rock bands, such as The Eagles, Led Zeppelin, and The Allman Brothers, have used the five-string banjo in some of their songs. Historically, the banjo occupied a central place in African-American traditional music and the folk culture of rural whites before entering the mainstream via the minstrel shows of the 19th century. Along with the fiddle, the banjo is a mainstay of American old-time music. It is also very frequently used in traditional ("trad") jazz.

Oud pear-shaped stringed instrument

The oud is a short-neck lute-type, pear-shaped stringed instrument with 11 or 13 strings grouped in 5 or 6 courses, commonly used predominantly in the music of the Western Asia and North Africa, including Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Iraq, Palestine, Kurdistan, Somalia, Yemen, Iran, Sudan, Armenia, Greece, Turkey, Azerbaijan, North African Chaabi, Classical, and Andalusian classic music.

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References

  1. ↑ "Demolition Derby". Allmusic. Retrieved August 10, 2012.
  2. ↑ Richardson, Derk. No Bull / Remembering the father of multicultural fusion, guitarist Sandy Bull. sfgate.com. April 2001. Retrieved August 11, 2012.
  3. ↑ "The 50 Greatest Lost Albums". Uncut . Retrieved 2012-08-11.
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