How's Tricks

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How's Tricks
Jack Bruce How's Tricks.jpg
Studio album by
Jack Bruce
Released1977
RecordedOctober–December 1976
Studio Manor
Genre Rock, jazz-rock, blues-rock
Length42:18(initial release),
52:00 (2003 reissue)
Label RSO
Producer Bill Halverson [1]
Jack Bruce chronology
Out of the Storm
(1974)		How's Tricks
(1977)		 Jet Set Jewel
(1978)

How's Tricks is the fifth studio album by Scottish musician Jack Bruce, released in 1977 through RSO Records. [2] [3] It is credited to the Jack Bruce Band.

Contents

The album peaked at No. 153 on the Billboard album chart in May 1977. [4] It would be Bruce's last album released under Robert Stigwood's management (and, consequently, his last for RSO); although the Jack Bruce Band would remain under contract with Stigwood for another year, the band's 1978 album Jet Set Jewel was rejected by Stigwood and RSO as not commercially viable, with the band subsequently dropped from the label. Bruce's leaving Stigwood/RSO ended a fifteen-year affiliation that began in 1963 when Bruce joined the Graham Bond Organisation.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide Star full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]

MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide deemed the album "an uninspired set of 10 lackluster tunes." [1] The Rolling Stone Album Guide called it "a journeyman effort hardly worth dredging up." [6]

Track listing

  1. "Without a Word" (Jack Bruce, Pete Brown) - 5:26
  2. "Johnny B'77" (Jack Bruce, Pete Brown) - 3:23
  3. "Times" (Jack Bruce, Pete Brown, Hughie Burns) - 4:49
  4. "Baby Jane" (Hughie Burns) - 2:37
  5. "Lost Inside a Song" (Jack Bruce, Pete Brown, Hughie Burns) - 4:04
  6. "How's Tricks" (Jack Bruce, Pete Brown) - 4:12
  7. "Madhouse" (Jack Bruce, Pete Brown) - 3:45
  8. "Waiting for the Call" (Jack Bruce, Pete Brown) - 5:48
  9. "Outsiders" (Jack Bruce, Pete Brown) - 2:57
  10. "Something to Live For" (Tony Hymas, Pete Brown) - 5:19

2003 CD bonus tracks

  1. "Without a Word" (recorded at Scorpio Sound, London, 28th November 1974) (Jack Bruce, Pete Brown) - 5:50
  2. "Something to Live For" (single edit) (Tony Hymas, Pete Brown) - 3:52

Personnel

References

  1. 1 2 3 MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 166.
  2. 1 2 Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 2. MUZE. p. 21.
  3. ↑ KRAMPERT, PETER (23 March 2016). The Encyclopedia of the Harmonica. Mel Bay Publications. ISBN   9781619115774 – via Google Books.
  4. ↑ "Jack Bruce". Billboard.
  5. ↑ Viglione, Joe. "How's Tricks - Jack Bruce | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 3 December 2011.
  6. 1 2 The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 92.


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