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Make A Joyful Noise

Mother Earth

Initial release : 1969

Mercury SR 61226

The second Mother Earth LP, half R&B, half country.

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Tracks

City Side;

  • Stop the Train (Stallings)
  • What Are You Trying To Do
  • I Need Your Love So Bad
  • The Soul Of A Man
  • Blues for the Road (Stallings)
Country Side;
  • You Win Again (Williams)
  • Come On and See (Arthur)
  • Then I'll Be Moving On (St. John)
  • I, The Fly (St. John)
  • I Wanna Be Your Mama Again (Sahm)
  • Wait, Wait, Wait
Musicians

  • Tracy Nelson - piano, vocals
  • R.P. St. John Jr. - harmonica, vocals
  • John Andrews - guitar
  • Bob Arthur - bass
  • Boz Scaggs - guitar
  • Ron Stallings - vocals
  • Lonnie Castille - drums
  • Clay Cotton - organ, piano
  • Pete Drake - steel guitar (1, 6, 8, 10)
  • Pig Robbins - organ (3)
  • Jack Drake - bass (11)
  • Curley Cooke - guitar (11)
  • Dale Sellars - guitar (11)
  • D.J. Fontana - drums (11)
  • Larry Butler - piano (11)
  • Ben Keith - dobro (11)
  • John Gimble - fiddle (6, 8, 9, 10, 11)
  • Shorty Lavender - fiddle (9, 11)
Horn section;
  • Bowlegs Miller - trumpet
  • Joseph Arnold - tenor saxophone
  • Aaron Varnell - tenor saxophone
  • Ronald Eades - baritone saxophone
  • Gerald Richardson - trombone
The Earthettes;
  • Shalimar Samuelson - backing vocals
  • Joyce Dunn - backing vocals
  • Irma Routen - backing vocals
Credits

  • Producers - Travis Rivers, Tracy Nelson
Related releases

Make A Joyful Noise was released on CD in 2004 (Wounded Bird Records WOU-1226)

One single was released in conjunction with this LP;

  • Wait, Wait, Wait/I Wanna Be Your Mama Again, Mother Earth, 1969, Mercury 72943
Need Your Love So Bad and The Soul Of A Man were included on;

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