Live 'n' Kickin' is a live album

Live album

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 by the power trio

Power trio

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 West, Bruce and Laing

West, Bruce and Laing

West, Bruce and Laing were a blues-rock power trio super-group consisting of Leslie West , Jack Bruce and Corky Laing . In 2009 West and Laing teamed up with Jack Bruce's son, Malcolm, and began touring as West, Bruce Jr...

, released in 1974. It was the band's final album, as they disbanded shortly before its release.

The album is noteworthy in that three of its four songs were not released in studio versions by the band. Specifically:

• "Play With Fire" is a cover version
  Cover version
  In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
  
   of a song originally written and performed by The Rolling Stones
  The Rolling Stones
  The Rolling Stones are an English rock band, formed in London in April 1962 by Brian Jones , Ian Stewart , Mick Jagger , and Keith Richards . Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early line-up...
  
  , although West, Bruce and Laing's rendition uses the music for "Love is Worth the Blues," a song they previously wrote and recorded for their 1972 debut album
  Why Dontcha
  Why Dontcha is the first studio album by power trio West, Bruce and Laing.The album features "The Doctor," which received heavy FM radio airplay upon the album's release and became a signature song in live performance for the band...
  
  .
• "Politician" is a cover of a song Jack Bruce
  Jack Bruce
  John Symon Asher "Jack" Bruce is a Scottish musician and songwriter, respected as a founding member of the British psychedelic rock power trio, Cream, for a solo career that spans several decades, and for his participation in several well-known musical ensembles...
  
   originally wrote and performed with Cream
  Cream (band)
  Cream were a 1960s British rock supergroup consisting of bassist/vocalist Jack Bruce, guitarist/vocalist Eric Clapton, and drummer Ginger Baker...
  
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• "Powerhouse Sod" is a previously-unreleased song apparently written by Jack Bruce, featuring a bass guitar solo by Bruce. This song was played by Bruce with other bands prior to West, Bruce and Laing; a live recording of it from 1971 exists on the Jack Bruce: Spirit boxed set.

Live 'n' Kickin peaked at #165 on the Billboard

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Track listing

1. "Play With Fire

Play with Fire (The Rolling Stones song)

"Play with Fire" is a song by English rock and roll band The Rolling Stones, originally released as B-side to the song "The Last Time". It was later included on the American release of their 1965 album Out of Our Heads....

" (Jagger

Mick Jagger

Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is an English musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and a founding member of The Rolling Stones....

/Richards

Keith Richards

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/Jones

Brian Jones

Lewis Brian Hopkins Jones , known as Brian Jones, was an English musician and a founding member of the Rolling Stones....

/Watts

Charlie Watts

Charles Robert "Charlie" Watts is an English drummer, best known as a member of The Rolling Stones. He is also the leader of a jazz band, a record producer, commercial artist, and horse breeder.-Early life:...

/Wyman

Bill Wyman

Bill Wyman is an English musician best known as the bass guitarist for the English rock and roll band the Rolling Stones from 1962 until 1992. Since 1997, he has recorded and toured with his own band, Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings...

) — 13:26

2. "The Doctor" (West/Bruce/Laing/Palmer) — 7:43

3. "Politician" (Bruce/Brown

Pete Brown

Peter Ronald Brown is an English performance poet and lyricist.Best known for his collaborations with Jack Bruce, Brown also worked with The Battered Ornaments, formed his own group Pete Brown & Piblokto!, and worked with Graham Bond and Phil Ryan. Brown also writes film scores and formed a film...

) — 5:41

4. "Powerhouse Sod" (West/Bruce/Laing) — 10:39

Personnel

• Leslie West
  Leslie West
  Leslie West is an American rock guitarist, singer and songwriter.-Biography:Originally named Leslie Weinstein, West was born in New York City, grew up in Hackensack, New Jersey, and in East Meadow, Forest Hills and Lawrence. After his parents divorced, he changed his surname to West...
  
   — guitar
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  , vocals
• Jack Bruce — synthesizer
  Synthesizer
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  , bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , harmonica
  Harmonica
  The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...
  
  , vocals
• Corky Laing
  Corky Laing
  Laurence Gordon "Corky" Laing is a Canadian rock drummer, best known as a longtime member of pioneering American hard rock band Mountain...
  
   — drums
  Drum kit
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