Give Us a Break (Arrogance album)
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Give Us A Break is the first album by the North Carolina band Arrogance
, released in 1973 (see 1973 in music
). Only 300 copies of this album were pressed on Sugarbush Records, based in Chapel Hill.
Side Two
Arrogance (band)
Arrogance is a rock band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. In the 1970s and early 1980s it was one of the most popular local bands in the state . The group has released six full length albums in its history and an early non-LP single...
, released in 1973 (see 1973 in music
1973 in music
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). Only 300 copies of this album were pressed on Sugarbush Records, based in Chapel Hill.
Track listing
Side One- "Not Unusual" (Kirkland) – 2:44
- "Searchin'" (Kirkland) - 5:01
- "To See Her Smile" (Kirkland) - 5:38
- "Our Love Will Last" (Dixon) - 2:57
- "Ma and Pa" (Kirkland) - 3:10
- "Why Do You Love Me" (Dixon) - 3:40
Side Two
- "A Foreshadowing" (Dixon) - 4:51
- "I Can See It In Your Eyes" (Kirkland) - 2:25
- "Pirates, Princes, and Kings" (Dixon) - 3:30
- "Congratulations" (Kirkland) - 3:56
Bonus Tracks on 2000 CD Reissue
- "Black Death"Black Death (song)"Black Death" is the first recorded work by the North Carolina band Arrogance, released in 1970 . Black Death was originally slated to be the lead track, but according to Don Dixon it was inadvertently switched...
- 3:24 - "Race With The Devil" - 3:04
Credits
- Don Dixon – bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments... - Robert Kirkland – guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
s, vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments... - Marty Stout – keyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
- Ogie Shaw – bongosBongo drumBongo or bongos are a Cuban percussion instrument consisting of a pair of single-headed, open-ended drums attached to each other. The drums are of different size: the larger drum is called in Spanish the hembra and the smaller the macho...
, percussionPercussion instrumentA percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...