Give Us a Break (Arrogance album)

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Give Us A Break
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ReleasedSpring 1973
RecordedLate 1972
StudioReflection Sound Studios, Charlotte, North Carolina
Genre Country Rock
Length38:17 (Original LP)
44:45 (Remastered CD)
Label Sugarbush Records
Dixon Archival Records
Producer Arrogance
Arrogance chronology
Give Us A Break
(1973)
Prolepsis
(1975)
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Give Us A Break is the first album by the North Carolina band Arrogance, released in 1973 (see 1973 in music). Only 300 copies of this album were pressed on Sugarbush Records, based in Chapel Hill.

Contents

Track listing

Side One

  1. "Not Unusual" (Kirkland) – 2:44
  2. "Searchin'" (Kirkland) - 5:01
  3. "To See Her Smile" (Kirkland) - 5:38
  4. "Our Love Will Last" (Dixon) - 2:57
  5. "Ma and Pa" (Kirkland) - 3:10
  6. "Why Do You Love Me" (Dixon) - 3:40

Side Two

  1. "A Foreshadowing" (Dixon) - 4:51
  2. "I Can See It In Your Eyes" (Kirkland) - 2:25
  3. "Pirates, Princes, and Kings" (Dixon) - 3:30
  4. "Congratulations" (Kirkland) - 3:56

Bonus tracks on 2000 CD reissue

  1. "Black Death" - 3:24
  2. "Race With The Devil" - 3:04

Personnel

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