First Taste (Potliquor album)

First Taste
Studio album by Potliquor
Released	November 1970
Studio	Deep South Recording Studio
Genre	Southern rock blues rock
Length	39:18
Label	Janus
Producer	Jim Brown
Potliquor chronology
First Taste (1970) Levee Blues (1971)

First Taste is the debut album by American band Potliquor released in November 1970.

While First Taste never quite broke onto the Billboard album chart, the magazine did report in mid-October/early November 1970 that "Riverboat", a single from the album was being played at the University of Wisconsin radio station ^[1] and at Queens College in Queens, New York ^[2] and again in early November that the album was receiving airplay by radio stations run by Southern Methodist University and the University of Minnesota. ^[3] They also posted a notice later in the month that the GRT Corporation, the corporate owner of Janus Records, was generating "much excitement behind its debut album by Potliquor, First Taste" in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ^[4]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Down the River Boogie"	George Ratzlaff	2:49
2.	"Ol' Man River"	Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II	4:37
3.	"Riverboat"	David Craig	3:08
4.	"Toballby"	George Ratzlaff, Les Wallace, Guy Schaeffer, Jerry Amoroso	7:21
5.	"The Raven"	George Ratzlaff, Edgar Allan Poe	5:05
6.	"You're No Good"	Clint Ballard Jr.	4:55
7.	"Price 20 Cents a Copy"	George Ratzlaff	3:08
8.	"Driftin'"	Giuseppe Efronetée	8:15

Personnel

• Jerry Amoroso – drums, percussion, vocals
• George Ratzlaff – keyboards, rhythm guitar, harp, percussion, vocals
• Guy Schaeffer – bass guitar, vocals
• Les Wallace – guitars, vocals

Additional

• Jim Brown – producer
• Cy Frost – engineer
• Sam Forbes – photography
• The Graffiteria – album cover design
• Dorothy Schwartz – album coordinator
• Ron Scerbo – production coordinator
• Artistic Promotional Enterprises – management
• Great South Artists – direction

References

1. "Campus News". Billboard. October 17, 1970.
2. Glassenberg, Bob (November 7, 1970). "Campus News". Billboard.
3. Glassenberg, Bob (November 7, 1970). "Campus News". Billboard. p. 30.
4. "From the Music Capitals of the World". Billboard. November 21, 1970. p. 86.

External links

• First Taste at AllMusic . Retrieved November 14, 2016.