Out Here is the fifth album by the American

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 rock

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 band Love

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, released in December 1969 on Blue Thumb Records

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 in the United States, and Harvest

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 in the United Kingdom.

Background

Recording three LPs worth of material with a new line-up, Lee gave one to Elektra Records in order to fulfill the contract that had been in place for nearly four years. Four Sail

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was released in August 1969.

Arranging the two remaining LPs into a double album, Lee signed a new contract with Blue Thumb Records and oversaw the release of the seventeen-track Out Here in December 1969, a few months after Elektra released Four Sail.

The Out Here title came from the name of the cover painting, created by Burt Shonberg in 1969.

In May 2007, the album was released as the first disc of The Blue Thumb Recordings by Universal

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's Hip-O Select division. Its only appearance on compact disc before this was a 1990 reissue distributed through MCA

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. (The British label Ace

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 put together an official compilation called Out There, featuring most of the songs from Out Here but filled the rest of the disc with songs not associated with the album.)

Track listing

• All songs by Arthur Lee, unless noted.

Side A

1. "I'll Pray for You" – 3:50
2. "Abalony" – 1:50
3. "Signed D.C." – 5:15
4. "Listen to My Song" – 2:28
5. "I'm Down" – 4:48

Side B

1. "Stand Out" – 3:00
2. "Discharged" – 1:30
3. "Doggone" – 12:00

Side C

1. "I Still Wonder" (Jay Donnellan, Arthur Lee
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   ) – 3:05
2. "Love Is More Than Words or Better Late Than Never" – 11:20
3. "Nice to Be" – 1:50
4. "Car Lights On in the Daytime Blues" – 1:10

Side D:

1. "Run to the Top" – 3:00
2. "Willow Willow" – 3:22
3. "Instra-Mental" – 3:00
4. "You Are Something" – 2:05
5. "Gather 'Round" – 5:50

Contributors

• Produced by Arthur Lee
• Arthur Lee
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  : rhythm guitar
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  , piano
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  , organ
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  , vocal
• Jay Donnellan: lead guitar
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• Frank Fayad: bass
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• George Suranovich: drums
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• Jim Hobson: organ, piano (tracks 1 & 13)
• Paul Martin: lead guitar (track 5)
• Gary Rowles: lead guitar (track 10)
• Drachen Theaker: drums (track 3)
• George Gaal, Arthur Lee: engineers
• Burt Shonberg: album cover artwork