Mystic Mile

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Mystic Mile
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 28, 1993 (1993-09-28)
Recorded1993
Studio Sound City Studios (Van Nuys, California)
Genre Blues, rock
Length55:57
Label Stretch
Producer Robben Ford, Charles Roscoe Beck, Tom Brechtlein
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Mystic Mile is an electric blues album by Robben Ford and the Blue Line that was released in 1993. [2] In this second album for Stretch, Ford shows growth as songwriter besides his virtuosity as a guitarist. [3] The album featured the collaboration of Chick Corea as executive producer. [1]

Contents

Track listing

All tracks composed by Robben Ford except where indicated

  1. "He Don't Play Nothin' But the Blues"
  2. "Busted Up"
  3. "Politician" (Jack Bruce, Pete Brown)
  4. "Worried Life Blues" (Big Maceo Merriweather)
  5. "Misdirected Life Blues"
  6. "Moth to a Flame"
  7. "Trying to Do the Right Thing (For Anne)"
  8. "Say What's on Your Mind" (Roscoe Beck)
  9. "The Plunge"
  10. "I Don't Play" (Willie Dixon)
  11. "Mystic Mile"

Personnel

Additional musicians

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