Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance

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Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance
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Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 1975
Recorded1974
Studio Ronnie Lane's Mobile Studio
Genre Folk rock
Length44:59
Label Island
Producer Ronnie Lane
Ronnie Lane chronology
Anymore for Anymore
(1974)
Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance
(1975)
One for the Road
(1976)
Professional ratings
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Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance is the second solo album recorded by Ronnie Lane, one of the founders of Small Faces and Faces, after he left Faces to live on a farm in Wales. In homage to his perceived chances of commercial success, he named his band Slim Chance. Six of the thirteen songs on this album were originals written by Lane, the rest of Slim Chance, and Lane's wife, Kate Lambert; the remainder were covers, including a new version of the Faces track "Stone".

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Little Piece of Nothing" (Ronnie Lane) – 2:23
  2. "Stone" (Lane) – 4:06
  3. "Bottle of Brandy" (Joe Isaacs) – 2:46
  4. "Street Gang" (Lane, Ruan O'Lochlainn, Steve Simpson) – 4:04
  5. "Anniversary" (Lane) – 2:57
  6. "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down (and Write Myself a Letter)" (music: Fred Ahlert; lyrics: Joe Young) – 2:53
  7. "I'm Just a Country Boy" (Fred Brooks, Marshall Barer) – 2:42
  8. "Ain't No Lady" (Lane, Ruan O'Lochlainn, Kate Lambert) – 4:22
  9. "Blue Monday" (Fats Domino, Dave Bartholomew) – 4:07
  10. "Give Me a Penny" (Lane) – 2:57
  11. "You Never Can Tell" (Chuck Berry) – 4:31
  12. "Tin and Tambourine" (Lane, Kate Lambert) – 4:09
  13. "Single Saddle" (Arthur Altman, Hal David) – 3:02

Personnel

Slim Chance

Session drummer

Production

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