Solo (Don McLean album)
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Solo is a Don McLean
double live album. It was recorded live in Manchester, Bristol, London and Oxford, England.
except where indicated.
Don McLean
Donald "Don" McLean is an American singer-songwriter. He is most famous for the 1971 album American Pie, containing the renowned songs "American Pie" and "Vincent".-Musical roots:...
double live album. It was recorded live in Manchester, Bristol, London and Oxford, England.
Track listing
All tracks composed by Don McLeanDon McLean
Donald "Don" McLean is an American singer-songwriter. He is most famous for the 1971 album American Pie, containing the renowned songs "American Pie" and "Vincent".-Musical roots:...
except where indicated.
- "Magdalene Lane"
- "Masters of WarMasters of War"Masters of War" is a song by Bob Dylan, written over the winter of 1962-63 and released on the album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan in the spring of 1963. The song's melody was adapted from the traditional "Nottamun Town"...
" (Bob DylanBob DylanBob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
) - "Wonderful Baby"
- "Where Were You, Baby?" (J. White)
- "Empty Chairs"
- "Geordie's Lost His Penker"
- "Babylon"
- "And I Love You So"
- "Mactavish Is Dead"
- "Cripple Creek/Muleskinner Blues"
- "Great Big Man"
- "Bronco Bill's Lament"
- "Happy Trails" (Dale EvansDale EvansDale Evans, was an American writer, movie star, and singer-songwriter. She was the third wife of singing cowboy Roy Rogers.-Early life:...
) - "Circus Song"
- "Birthday Song"
- "On the Amazon" (Vivian EllisVivian EllisVivian Ellis was an English musical comedy composer best known for the song "Spread a Little Happiness" and the theme "Coronation Scot".-Life and work:...
, Clifford GreyClifford GreyClifford Grey was an English songwriter, actor, librettist and Olympic medalist. His birth name was Percival Davis, and he was also known as Clifford Gray, Tippi Gray, Tippi Grey, Tippy Gray and Tippy Grey.As a writer, Grey contributed prolifically to West End and Broadway shows, as librettist and...
) - "American Pie"
- "Over the Waterfall/Arkansas Traveller"
- "Homeless Brother"
- "Castles in the Air (Three Flights Up)"
- "Lovesick Blues" (Irving MillsIrving MillsIrving Mills was a jazz music publisher, also known by the name of "Joe Primrose."Mills was born to Jewish parents in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. He founded Mills Music with his brother Jack in 1919...
, Cliff Friend) - "Winter Has Me in Its Grip"
- "The Legend of Andrew McCrew"
- "Dreidel"
- "VincentVincent (song)"Vincent" is a song by Don McLean written as a tribute to Vincent van Gogh. It is also known by its opening line, "Starry Starry Night", a reference to van Gogh's painting The Starry Night. The song also describes different paintings done by the artist.McLean wrote the lyrics in 1971 after reading...
" - "Till Tomorrow"
Personnel
- Don McLean - acoustic guitar, banjo, vocals
- Greg Calbi - mastering
- Jesse Henderson - engineer
- Vic MaileVic MaileVic Maile was a British record producer. After starting his career as sound engineer with Pye mobile studios for The Animals on their song, "We Gotta Get out of This Place", Maile worked with some of the biggest names in the music industry, such as Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton, The...
- engineer - Gil Markle - engineer
- John Peters - mixing