Pacific Gas and Electric (album)

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Pacific Gas and Electric
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Studio album by
Released 1969
Genre
Length41:33
Label Columbia 9900
Producer John Hill
Pacific Gas & Electric chronology
Get It On
(1968)
Pacific Gas and Electric
(1969)
Are You Ready?
(1970)
Singles from Pacific Gas and Electric
  1. "Bluesbuster"/"Redneck"
    Released: October 17, 1969

Pacific Gas and Electric is an album by Pacific Gas & Electric released in 1969. It reached #91 on the Billboard Top LPs chart. [3] The album was the first PG&E release on Columbia Records, having been signed after their performance at the Miami Pop Festival in May 1968.

Contents

One single came from the album, "Bluesbuster", but it did not chart on the Billboard Hot 100. [4] The song was featured on the 1970 sampler album, Fill Your Head with Rock .

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
The Village Voice A− [2]

In a contemporary review for The Village Voice , Robert Christgau regarded Pacific Gas and Electric as "a pleasant surprise" whose "first side rocks like hell and despite some nonsense with drums and '30s jazz arrangements, even the second can be played over and over." [2]

Track listing

  1. "Bluesbuster" (Charlie Allen) – 2:55
  2. "Death Row #172" (Charlie Allen, John Hill) – 3:59
  3. "Miss Lucy" (Charlie Allen) – 2:28
  4. "My Women" (Charlie Allen, Tom Marshall) – 5:38
  5. "She's Long and She's Tall" (John Lee Hooker) – 6:20
  6. "PG&E Suite: The Young Rabbits/Constitutional Strand/Fat Tom/Boy Wonder" (Brent Block, Tom Marshall, Glenn Schwartz) – 16:41
  7. "Redneck" (Joe South) – 3:32

Personnel

Adapted from Discogs. [5]

Charts

Chart (1969/71)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [6] 38
USA (Billboard Top LPs 91

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Pacific Gas and Electric at AllMusic
  2. 1 2 3 Christgau, Robert (October 18, 2017). "Consumer Guide (5)". The Village Voice . Retrieved October 18, 2017.
  3. Pacific Gas & Electric, Pacific Gas and Electric Retrieved January 10, 2016
  4. Pacific Gas & Electric, "Bluesbuster" single release Retrieved January 10, 2016
  5. Pacific Gas & Electric, Pacific Gas and Electric credits Retrieved January 10, 2016
  6. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 227. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.