Some Days You Eat the Bear

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Some Days You Eat the Bear and Some Days the Bear Eats You
Ian bear.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 1974
RecordedDecember 1973-January 1974
Studio Elektra, Los Angeles, California
Genre Country rock
Length33:41
Label Elektra
Producer Ian Matthews
Ian Matthews chronology
Valley Hi
(1973)
Some Days You Eat the Bear and Some Days the Bear Eats You
(1974)
Go For Broke
(1976)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Christgau's Record Guide C+ [2]

Some Days You Eat the Bear and Some Days the Bear Eats You is the 1974 album by country rock/folk rock musician Ian Matthews.

Contents

The original vinyl album was released worldwide by Elektra Records, the second of two Ian Matthews solo albums released on that label (the first being Valley Hi in 1973), and featured various well-known session musicians such as David Lindley, Al Garth, Jeff Baxter from Steely Dan, and others. It also featured bandmates, guitarist Andy Roberts and drummer Timi Donald, from the first Plainsong album, In Search of Amelia Earhart.

The album was reissued on CD by Elektra in 1991 and has twice been reissued as a 2-on-1 remastered release with Valley Hi, first by Water Records in 2003, and more recently by BGO Records in 2017.

Track listing

  1. "Ol' '55" (Tom Waits) - 3:12
  2. "I Don't Wanna Talk About It" (Danny Whitten) - 3:48
  3. "A Wailing Goodbye" (Ian Matthews) - 2:52
  4. "Keep On Sailing" (Ian Matthews) - 4:37
  5. "Tried So Hard" (Gene Clark) - 3:00
  6. "Dirty Work" (Donald Fagen, Walter Becker) - 2:51
  7. "Do I Still Figure In Your Life" (Pete Dello) - 2:51
  8. "Home" (Ian Matthews) - 3:12
  9. "Biloxi" (Jesse Winchester) - 4:18
  10. "The Fault" (Ian Matthews) - 3:00

Personnel

Production

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References

  1. Hartenbach, Brett. Some Days You Eat the Bear at AllMusic
  2. Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: M". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies . Ticknor & Fields. ISBN   089919026X . Retrieved 7 March 2019 via robertchristgau.com.