Now Look

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Now Look
Now Look - Ron Wood.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 1975
Recorded22 April – 6 June 1974 (London); 14–21 April 1975 (Baambrugge)
Studio The Wick, Richmond, London; B.B.C. Studios, Baambrugge, Holland
Genre Rock
Label Warner Bros. Records
Producer Ronnie Wood, Bobby Womack, Ian McLagan
Ronnie Wood chronology
I've Got My Own Album to Do
(1974)
Now Look
(1975)
Mahoney's Last Stand
(1976)

Now Look is the second solo album by English musician Ronnie Wood, released in July 1975. In the United States, it peaked at number 118 on Billboard's top 200 albums listings, during a six-week chart run. Produced by Wood, Bobby Womack and Ian McLagan, the album also includes musical contributions from Keith Richards, Mick Taylor, Willie Weeks and Andy Newmark – all of whom had played on Wood's debut, I've Got My Own Album to Do .

Contents

The Faces worked the song "Big Bayou" into the setlist for their 1975 fall tour, which turned out to be the band's final tour. Faces vocalist Rod Stewart recorded his own cover of "Big Bayou" the following year for A Night on the Town . Wood remade "Breathe on Me" in 1991 for his album Slide On This .

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Track listing

All tracks composed by Ronnie Wood, except where indicated.

  1. "I Got Lost When I Found You" (Wood, Bobby Womack) – 4:26
  2. "Big Bayou" (Gib Guilbeau) – 2:42
  3. "Breathe on Me" – 6:32
  4. "If You Don’t Want My Love" (Womack, Gordon DeWitty) – 4:18
  5. "I Can Say She's Alright" (Wood, Womack) – 6:22
  6. "Caribbean Boogie" – 2:23
  7. "Now Look" – 3:53
  8. "Sweet Baby Mine" (Jim Ford, Womack) – 3:28
  9. "I Can't Stand the Rain" (Donald Bryant, Ann Peebles, Bernard Miller) – 3:12
  10. "It's Unholy" – 6:28
  11. "I Got a Feeling" (Womack, Ian McLagan, Jean Roussel) – 3:21

Personnel

Technical

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