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TRACK LISTING
1. Crop Dustin’ / 2. Land Of 1000 Dances / 3. 99 1/2 / 4. Boo-Ga-Loo Down Broadway / 5. Funky Broadway / 6. With A
Little Help From My Friends / 7. Oh, Pretty Woman / 8. I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water / 9. The Way I Feel Tonight / 10. In
The Midnight Hour / 11. Rattlesnake / 12. You Don't Know [Bonus Track] / 13. I'm Going Home [Bonus Track] / 14.
Grazing In The Grass (Take 2) [Bonus Track] / 15. Soulful Strut (Take 10) [Bonus Track] / 16. Oh, Pretty Woman
(Alternate Version) [Bonus Track] / 17. The Way I Feel Tonight (Alternate Version) [Bonus Track] / 18. Boo-Ga-Loo Down
Broadway (Alternate Version) [Bonus Track] / 19. Land Of 1000 Dances (Alternate Version) [Bonus Track]
Like the first words of a book, the opening notes of an album can make you lean in. Sometimes it’s like meeting a stranger
who later becomes a lifelong friend, or on rare occasions, a spouse. Please drop your stylus on this record and say hello
to your new best friend. Hear the confidence, hear the tone, feel the vibe. –Robert Gordon (from his liner notes)
As a founding member of Stax house band Booker T. & The M.G.’s, Steve Cropper was involved in some of the most
important music of the 1960s as a player, songwriter, and producer. The following decade introduced him to a new group
of fans as guitarist for The Blues Brothers, appearing on both their records and film. A two-time Grammy® winner and
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Cropper has been an integral thread in the cloth of American music, writing, playing
and producing into the 21st century to this very day. In 1969, Cropper released his first solo album, producing and
arranging its eleven tracks himself. His backing band?
While there is no actual record of who played on the album itself, Grammy® winner Robert Gordon’s liner notes point to
his fellow M.G.’s, Buddy Miles, Jim Keltner, the Bar-Kay’s James Alexander, and more as candidates. From original tracks
to its well-known covers (including The Beatles classic the release shares its name with), it is a tour de force of pure
Memphis rock and soul. The core eleven tracks now appear again on an all-analog cut, new pressing of the LP as With A
Little Help From My Friends returns for a new generation to experience.
The CD version contains a whopping eight bonus tracks, including four tracks not included on the original release and
alternate versions of four that do. Add in Robert Gordon’s notes and this release is as much a history lesson as it is a
timepiece of pure musical magic.
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