Right Side Up

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Right Side Up
Ralph McTell's Right Side Up album cover.jpg
Studio album by
Ralph McTell
Released1976
Studio Air Studios, London
Genre Folk
Length35:54
Label Warner Bros. Records/WEA
Producer Ralph McTell, Peter Swettenham
Ralph McTell chronology
Streets...
(1975)
Right Side Up
(1976)
Ralph, Albert & Sydney
(1977)

Right Side Up is an album by Ralph McTell released in 1976 by Warner Bros. Records/WEA, recorded at Air Studios in London by Pete Henderson and Mike Stavrou, and produced by Ralph McTell and Peter Swettenham (one-time member of band Grapefruit).

Contents

Musicians who appear on the album include Danny Thompson, (double bass), John Stevens and Pick Withers - (drums) - Rod Clements (of Lindisfarne), - Dave Pegg (from Fairport Convention), bass players. Backing vocals were provided by Tony Rivers - of The Castaways - Ken Gold and John Perry (also one-time member of band Grapefruit). John Martyn played guitar on "River Rising". [1]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Ralph McTell; except where indicated

Side One
  1. "San Diego Serenade" (Tom Waits) 2:45
  2. "Naomi" - 3:07
  3. "Tequila Sunset" - 3:22
  4. "Weather the Storm" - 4:01
  5. "River Rising" - 3:57
Side Two
  1. "From Clare to Here" - 4:13
  2. "Chairman and the Little Man" - 2:09
  3. "Country Boys" - 2:32
  4. "Slow Burning Companion" - 3:28
  5. "Nightmares" - 2:55
  6. "May You Never" (John Martyn) - 3:25
  1. "Song for Ireland" (additional track, learnt by McTell from the version by Dick Gaughan, written by Phil Colclough originally released in 1982, added to re-release of the album)

Track notes

  1. "San Diego Serenade": McTell - "I've always admired Tom Waits writing for both his melody and his wonderfully evocative lyrics."
  2. "Weather the Storm":McTell - "It remains one of my most requested pieces in live work."
  3. "From Clare to Here": McTell - "A chance remark from a fellow building site labourer remembered from 1963 as " it's a long way from Clare to here."
  4. "Country Boys": McTell: "Cornwall was in my mind when I wrote this, and Ry Cooder was on everybody's turntable."
  5. "May You Never": McTell - "John Martyn has written so many beautiful songs, but I guess this is still my favourite."

Personnel

Technical

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References

  1. Sleeve notes, CD re-release 2001