Solo (Don McLean album)

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Solo
Don McLean - Solo Coverart.png
Live album by
ReleasedOctober 1976 (1976-10)
RecordedOctober 1973
Genre Rock
Label United Artists
Producer John Peters, Herb Gart
Don McLean chronology
Homeless Brother
(1974)
Solo
(1976)
Prime Time
(1977)

Solo is a Don McLean double live album. It was recorded live in Manchester, Bristol, London, and Oxford, England.

Contents

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Track listing

All tracks composed by Don McLean except where indicated. [1]

Side One

  1. "Magdalene Lane"
  2. "Masters of War" (Bob Dylan)
  3. "Wonderful Baby"
  4. "Where Were You, Baby?" (Josh White)
  5. "Empty Chairs"
  6. "Geordie's Lost His Penker" (Traditional; arranged and adapted by Don McLean)
  7. "Babylon"

Side Two

  1. "And I Love You So"
  2. "Mactavish Is Dead" (Traditional; arranged and adapted by Don McLean)
  3. "Cripple Creek/Muleskinner Blues" (Traditional; arranged and adapted by Don McLean / George Vaughn, Jimmie Rodgers)
  4. "Great Big Man"
  5. "Bronco Bill's Lament"
  6. "Happy Trails" (Dale Evans)
  7. "Circus Song"
  8. "Birthday Song"
  9. "On the Amazon" (Vivian Ellis, Clifford Grey)

Side Three

  1. "American Pie"
  2. "Over the Waterfall/Arkansas Traveller" (Traditional; arranged and adapted by Don McLean)
  3. "Homeless Brother"
  4. "Castles in the Air"
  5. Three Flights Up"

Side Four

  1. "Lovesick Blues" (Irving Mills, Cliff Friend)
  2. "Winter Has Me in Its Grip"
  3. "The Legend of Andrew McCrew"
  4. "Dreidel"
  5. "Vincent"
  6. "Till Tomorrow"

Personnel

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References

  1. "Don McLean - Solo (Vinyl, LP)". Discogs. Retrieved 15 February 2017.