Seatrain (album)
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Seatrain is a second album by the band Seatrain
, recorded in 1970 and adding Peter Rowan on guitar and lead vocals. Produced by George Martin
, this was his first-ever record he produced after The Beatles
. The most successful song on this album is "13 Questions", which charted to Top 40 hits.
"I'm Willing" is an up-beat cover of the Little Feat
-classic, nonetheless keeping the originals lyric intensity. "Song of Job" draws on The Old Testament Book of Job, in a sensitive rendering of the complex 42 chapters, retaining the framestory, as well as bits of the books main body, the religious conversations between Job and his friends. The revelation of God at the end is a wonderfully conceived musical crescendo. "Waiting for Elijah" also draws on the Old Testament, or rather the apocryphal belief in the second coming of the prophet. In the line of "I'm Willing", "Home to you" is another roadsong, not of hard work, but of hard earned leisure, yearning and love.
Seatrain (band)
Seatrain was an American roots fusion band based initially in Marin County, California, and later in Marblehead, Massachusetts. Seatrain was formed after the breakup of the Blues Project in 1969...
, recorded in 1970 and adding Peter Rowan on guitar and lead vocals. Produced by George Martin
George Martin
Sir George Henry Martin CBE is an English record producer, arranger, composer and musician. He is sometimes referred to as "the Fifth Beatle"— a title that he often describes as "nonsense," but the fact remains that he served as producer on all but one of The Beatles' original albums...
, this was his first-ever record he produced after The Beatles
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
. The most successful song on this album is "13 Questions", which charted to Top 40 hits.
Track listing
- "I'm Willing" (George) 3:32
- "Song of Job" (Kullberg, Roberts) 6:04
- "Broken Morning" (Kullberg, Roberts) 3:04
- "Home to You" (Rowan) 3:22
- "Out Where the Hills" (Kullberg, Roberts) 5:48
- "Waiting for Elijah" (Rowan) 3:35
- "13 Questions" (Kullberg, Roberts) 2:58
- "Oh My Love/Sally Goodin/Creepin' Midnight/Orange Blossom SpecialOrange Blossom SpecialOrange Blossom Special may refer to:* Orange Blossom Special , was a passenger train operated by the Seaboard Air Line Railway* Orange Blossom Special , by Ervin T. Rouse* Orange Blossom Special , an album by Johnny Cash...
" 15:26
"I'm Willing" is an up-beat cover of the Little Feat
Little Feat
Little Feat is an American rock band formed by singer-songwriter, lead vocalist and guitarist Lowell George and keyboardist Bill Payne in 1969 in Los Angeles....
-classic, nonetheless keeping the originals lyric intensity. "Song of Job" draws on The Old Testament Book of Job, in a sensitive rendering of the complex 42 chapters, retaining the framestory, as well as bits of the books main body, the religious conversations between Job and his friends. The revelation of God at the end is a wonderfully conceived musical crescendo. "Waiting for Elijah" also draws on the Old Testament, or rather the apocryphal belief in the second coming of the prophet. In the line of "I'm Willing", "Home to you" is another roadsong, not of hard work, but of hard earned leisure, yearning and love.
Personnel
- Peter Rowan – vocals, guitar
- Richard Greene - violin
- Larry Atamanuik - drums, percussion
- Lloyd Baskin - keyboards, vocals
- Andy KulbergAndy KulbergAndy Kulberg was an American musician notable for his bass playing with the groups Blues Project and Seatrain....
- bass, flute - Jim Roberts - vocals