Upchurch (album)

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Upchurch
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Studio album by
Phil Upchurch
Released1969
RecordedMarch 1969
StudioTer Mar Studios, Chicago, Illinois
Genre Jazz
Length39:17
Label Cadet
LPS-826
Producer Charles Stepney
Phil Upchurch chronology
Feeling Blue
(1967)		Upchurch
(1969)		 The Way I Feel
(1970)

Upchurch is an album by jazz and R&B guitarist Phil Upchurch recorded in 1969 and released on the Cadet label. [1] [2]

Phil Upchurch American jazz and R&B guitarist and bassist

Philip Upchurch is an American blues, jazz and R&B guitarist and bassist.

Cadet Records was an American record label that began as Argo Records in 1955 as the jazz subsidiary of Chess Records. Argo changed its name in 1965 to Cadet to avoid confusion with the similarly named label in the UK. Cadet stopped releasing records around 1974, when its artists were moved to Chess.

Contents

Reception

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Allmusic awarded the album 2 stars. [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Phil Upchurch except as indicated

  1. "Black Gold" (Charles Stepney) – 4:31
  2. "America" (Paul Simon) – 3:30
  3. "As You Said" (Jack Bruce, Pete Brown) – 2:31
  4. "You Wouldn't, You Couldn't Be True" – 3:02
  5. "Crosstown Traffic" (Jimi Hendrix) – 4:00
  6. "Adam and Charlene" (Charles Stepney) – 4:19
  7. "Spinning Wheel" (David Clayton-Thomas) – 3:28
  8. "Voodoo Chile" (Jimi Hendrix) – 2:52
  9. "More and More" (Don Juan Mancha, Vee Pea Smith) – 2:43
  10. "Midnight Chile" – 4:09

Personnel

Guitar Fretted string instrument

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Donny Hathaway American singer-songwriter and musician

Donny Edward Hathaway was an American soul singer, keyboardist, songwriter, and arranger. Hathaway signed with Atlantic Records in 1969 and with his first single for the Atco label, "The Ghetto", in early 1970, Rolling Stone magazine "marked him as a major new force in soul music." His enduring songs include "The Ghetto", "This Christmas", "Someday We'll All Be Free", "Little Ghetto Boy", "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know", signature versions of "A Song for You", "For All We Know", "Where Is the Love" and "The Closer I Get to You", two of many collaborations with Roberta Flack. "Where Is the Love" won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals in 1973. At the height of his career, Hathaway was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. On January 13, 1979, Hathaway's body was found outside the luxury hotel Essex House in New York City; his death was ruled as suicide.

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References

  1. ↑ Cadet Album Discography (1965–1971) accessed May 14, 2014
  2. ↑ Phil Upchurch discography accessed May 14, 2014
  3. 1 2 Allmusic Review accessed May 14, 2014
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