I'm the Fiddle Man

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I'm the Fiddle Man
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Studio album by
Released1975
Recorded1975 at Golden West Sound Recorders, Hollywood, California
Genre
Label Buddah
Producer Ed Martinez
Papa John Creach chronology
Playing My Fiddle for You
(1974)
I'm the Fiddle Man
(1975)
Rock Father
(1976)

I'm the Fiddle Man is Papa John's fourth solo album and the first with Buddah Records. The album was recorded after Papa John Creach left Jefferson Starship following the successful album, Red Octopus . The supporting band on this album is known as Midnight Sun and had a similar lineup to Zulu on Playing My Fiddle for You . This album featured fewer original compositions than the previous album.

Buddah Records US record label

Buddah Records was an American record label founded in 1967 in New York City. The label was born out of Kama Sutra Records, an MGM Records-distributed label, which remained a key imprint following Buddah's founding. Buddah handled a variety of music genres, including bubblegum pop, folk-rock (Melanie), experimental music, and soul.

Papa John Creach American musician

John Henry Creach, better known as Papa John Creach, was an American blues violinist, who has also played classical, jazz, be-bop, R&B, pop and acid rock music. Early in his career, he performed as a journeyman musician with such luminaries as Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Stuff Smith, Charlie Christian, Big Joe Turner, T-Bone Walker, Nat King Cole and Roy Milton.

Jefferson Starship American rock band

Jefferson Starship is an American rock band from San Francisco, California that formed after the breakup of the group Jefferson Airplane in 1972. Between 1974 and 1984, they released ten gold or platinum selling studio albums, and had nine top 40 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The band went through several major changes in personnel and genres through the years while retaining the same Jefferson Starship name. The band name was retired in 1985, but it was picked up again in the early 1990s by a revival of the group led by Paul Kantner, which has continued following his death in 2016.

Contents

Track listing

Side A

  1. "I'm the Fiddle Man" (Kevin Moore, John Lewis Parker, Papa John Creach) – 4:02
  2. "Stardust" (Mitchell Parish, Hoagy Carmichael) – 5:13
  3. "Enjoy" (Arthur Freeman, Roberta Talmage, Joyce Robbins) – 2:35
  4. "The Rocker" (John Lewis Parker, Creach) – 2:37
  5. "Jim Dandy" (Gary St. Clair) – 4:08

Side B

  1. "Joyce" (Arthur Freeman, Ed Martinez) – 4:50
  2. "I Know Where I'm Goin'" (D. Gibbs) – 2:35
  3. "Solitude" (Edgar DeLange, Irving Mills, Duke Ellington) – 3:33
  4. "You Left Your Happiness" (Eddie Williams, Triune (Paula De Pores, Orena D. Fulmer and Ruth Stratchborneo)) – 3:05
  5. "Fiddlin' Around" (Arthur Freeman, Ed Martinez) – 3:40

Personnel

Keb Mo American blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter

Kevin Roosevelt Moore, known as Keb' Mo', is an American blues musician and four-time Grammy Award winner. He is a singer, guitarist, and songwriter, living in Nashville, Tennessee. He has been described as "a living link to the seminal Delta blues that travelled up the Mississippi River and across the expanse of America". His post-modern blues style is influenced by many eras and genres, including folk, rock, jazz, pop and country. The moniker "Keb Mo" was coined by his original drummer, Quentin Dennard, and picked up by his record label as a "street talk" abbreviation of his given name.

Production

Ed Caraeff is a photographer, illustrator and graphic designer, who has worked largely in the music industry. He has art directed, photographed and designed hundreds of record album covers from 1967 to 1982 for numerous artists, including Elton John, Steely Dan, Carly Simon, Three Dog Night, Tom Waits and Dolly Parton. His photography has appeared on the cover of four issues of Rolling Stone and is included in the permanent collection of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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