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The Best of Delaney & Bonnie is a compilation album of music recorded by Delaney & Bonnie and Friends during the years 1969-71.

The album is available in two editions. The first edition, released in 1972 by Atco

Atco Records

ATCO Records is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group, currently operating through WMG's Rhino Entertainment.-Beginnings:Atco Records was founded in 1955 as a division of Atlantic Records. It was devised as an outlet for productions by one of Atlantic's founders, Herb Abramson, who...

(Atlantic

Atlantic Records

Atlantic Records is an American record label best known for its many recordings of rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and jazz...

) Records (catalog no. SD 7014, out of print) contains songs from Delaney and Bonnie's four albums on the Atco and Elektra

Elektra Records

Elektra Records is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group. In 2004, it was consolidated into WMG's Atlantic Records Group. After five years of dormancy, the label was revived by Atlantic in 2009....

labels. The second, revised edition was released in 1990 on Atlantic's affiliate Rhino Records, and contains songs from all six of the band's original albums.

Track Listing - Original 1972 Release

"When the Battle is Over" (Mac Rebennack/Jessie Hill) – 3:32
"Dirty Old Man" (Delaney Bramlett
Delaney Bramlett
Delaney Bramlett was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and producer. Bramlett's five decade career reached peaks in creativity, performance, and notoriety in partnership with his then wife Bonnie Bramlett, in a revolving troupe of professional musicians and Rock superstars dubbed Delaney...

/Mac Davis
Mac Davis
Mac Davis is a country music singer, songwriter, and actor originally from Lubbock, Texas who has enjoyed much crossover success...

) – 2:31
- [1, 2] from Accept No Substitute - The Original Delaney & Bonnie
  Accept No Substitute
  Accept No Substitute is the second album by Delaney & Bonnie Bramlett, and their only release on the Elektra label...
  
  (1969). Produced by David Anderle
  David Anderle
  David Anderle is a well-known record producer. His production credits include albums for Judy Collins, Rita Coolidge, Amy Grant, Delaney and Bonnie, David Ackles, Kris Kristofferson, Aaron Neville, Chris De Burgh, Rhinoceros, Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Doc Holliday and the Circle Jerks...
  
  , assisted by Delaney Bramlett
  Delaney Bramlett
  Delaney Bramlett was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and producer. Bramlett's five decade career reached peaks in creativity, performance, and notoriety in partnership with his then wife Bonnie Bramlett, in a revolving troupe of professional musicians and Rock superstars dubbed Delaney...
  
  .
"Only You Know and I Know (live version)" (Dave Mason
Dave Mason
David Thomas "Dave" Mason is an English singer, songwriter, and guitarist from Worcester, who first found fame with the rock band Traffic...

) – 4:10
- From On Tour with Eric Clapton
  On Tour with Eric Clapton
  -Side two:-Disc one:Royal Albert Hall 12/1/69# Intro/Tuning# Opening Jam# Gimme Some Lovin'# Band Introductions# Only You Know And I Know# Medley: Poor Elijah/Tribute To Johnson# Get Ourselves Together# I Don't Know Why...
  
  (1970). Produced by Jimmy Miller and Delaney Bramlett.
"Get Ourselves Together" (Bonnie Bramlett
Bonnie Bramlett
Bonnie Bramlett is an American singer and sometime actress known for her distinctive vocals in rock and pop music. This began in the mid 1960s as a backing singer, forming the husband-and-wife team of Delaney & Bonnie, and continuing to the present day as a solo artist.-Life and career:Bramlett...

/Carl Radle
Carl Radle
Carl Dean Radle was a bass guitarist who toured and recorded with many of the most influential recording artists of the late 1960s and 1970s...

) – 2:25
- From Accept No Substitute.
"Where There's a Will There's a Way" (Bonnie Bramlett/Bobby Whitlock
Bobby Whitlock
Robert Stanley 'Bobby' Whitlock is a songwriter and performer, best known as a member of Derek and the Dominos.- Biography :...

) – 4:57
- From On Tour with Eric Clapton.
"Never Ending Song of Love" (Delaney Bramlett) – 3:20
- From Motel Shot
  Motel Shot
  Motel Shot is a 1971 album by Delaney & Bonnie and Friends. The album, their third for Atco/Atlantic and fifth overall, is a mostly acoustic set...
  
  (1971). Produced by Delaney Bramlett.
"Comin' Home (live version)" (Bonnie Bramlett/Eric Clapton
Eric Clapton
Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and...

) – 5:30
- From On Tour with Eric Clapton.
"The Love of My Man" (Ed Townsend
Ed Townsend
Edward Benjamin 'Ed' Townsend was an American attorney, songwriter, and producer. He was best known for performing his composition, "For Your Love," a rhythm and blues doo wop classic, and as the co-writer of "Let's Get It On" with Marvin Gaye.-Biography:Although he was born in Fayetteville,...

) – 4:28
"Soul Shake" (Margaret Lewis/Myrna Smith
Myrna Smith
Myrna Yvonne Smith was an American songwriter and singer, who co-wrote many of the songs for Carl Wilson's 1981 solo album Carl Wilson, as well as a few of the songs on his 1983 solo album Youngblood...

) – 3:10
Medley: "Come On In My Kitchen
Come On in My Kitchen
"Come On in My Kitchen" is a blues song by Robert Johnson. Johnson recorded the song on Monday, November 23rd, 1936 at the Gunter Hotel in San Antonio, Texas - his first recording session...

" (Robert Johnson)/"Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean" (Herbert Lance/Charles Singleton/John Wallace)/"Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad" (Traditional, arr. Delaney Bramlett) – 4:10
"Free the People" (Barbara Keith) – 2:47
- [8-11] from To Bonnie from Delaney
  To Bonnie from Delaney
  To Bonnie from Delaney is a 1970 album by Delaney & Bonnie and Friends. It was their first studio album for the Atco/Atlantic label , and their fourth album overall...
  
  (1970). Produced by Jerry Wexler
  Jerry Wexler
  Gerald "Jerry" Wexler was a music journalist turned music producer, and was regarded as one of the major record industry players behind music from the 1950s through the 1980s...
  
  , Tom Dowd
  Tom Dowd
  Tom Dowd was an American recording engineer and producer for Atlantic Records. He was credited with innovating the multi-track recording method. Dowd worked on a virtual "who's who" of recordings that encompassed blues, jazz, pop, rock and soul records.- Early years :Born in Manhattan, Dowd grew...
  
  and Delaney Bramlett, assisted by Curtis Ousley
  King Curtis
  Curtis Ousley , who performed under the stage name King Curtis, was an American saxophone virtuoso known for rhythm and blues, rock and roll, soul, funk and soul jazz. Variously a bandleader, band member, and session musician, he was also a musical director and record producer...
  
  .

Track Listing - 1990 Revised Edition

"Get Ourselves Together" (Bonnie Bramlett/Carl Radle) – 2:25
"When the Battle is Over" (Mac Rebennack/Jessie Hill) – 3:32
"Ghetto" (Bettye Crutcher/Homer Banks
Homer Banks
Homer Banks was an African-American songwriter, singer and record producer, best known for his songs for Stax Records in the 1960s and 1970s...

/Bonnie Bramlett) – 4:55
- [1-3] from Accept No Substitute.
"Piece of My Heart
Piece of My Heart
"Piece of My Heart" is a song written by Jerry Ragovoy and Bert Berns and originally recorded by Erma Franklin in 1967. The song came to greater mainstream attention when Big Brother and the Holding Company covered the song in 1968 and had a hit with it...

" (Bert Berns
Bert Berns
Bertrand Russell Berns , most commonly known as Bert Berns as well as Bert Russell and Russell Byrd, was an American songwriter and record producer of the 1960s...

/Jerry Ragovoy
Jerry Ragovoy
Jordan "Jerry" Ragovoy was an American songwriter and record producer.His best-known composition "Time Is on My Side" was made famous by The Rolling Stones, although it had been recorded earlier by Kai Winding and Irma Thomas...

) – 4:38
- From Home
  Home (Delaney & Bonnie album)
  Home is the first album by husband-and-wife singers Delaney & Bonnie, released on the Stax label . Most of the album was recorded in 1969 at Stax Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, and features many of Stax's house musicians, including Donald "Duck" Dunn, Steve Cropper, Booker T...
  
  (1969). Produced by Don Nix
  Don Nix
  Don Nix is a songwriter, composer, arranger, musician, and author. Although cited as being "obscure", he is a key figure in several genres of Southern rock and Soul, R&B, and the Blues...
  
  and Donald "Duck" Dunn.
"Comin' Home (studio version)" (Bonnie Bramlett/Eric Clapton) – 3:13
"Groupie (Superstar)" (Bonnie Bramlett/Leon Russell
Leon Russell
Claude Russell Bridges , known professionally as Leon Russell, is an American musician and songwriter, who has recorded as a session musician, sideman, and maintained a solo career in music....

) – 2:49
- [5, 6] from Atco single #6725 (1969); subsequently included in D&B Together
  D&B Together
  D&B Together is a 1972 album by Delaney & Bonnie and Friends. It was their last album of new material, as Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett would divorce soon after its release....
  
  (1972). Produced by Delaney Bramlett.
"Things Get Better (live version)" (Steve Cropper
Steve Cropper
Steve Cropper , also known as Steve "The Colonel" Cropper, is an American guitarist, songwriter and record producer. He is best known as the guitarist of the Stax Records house band, Booker T...

/Eddie Floyd
Eddie Floyd
Eddie Lee Floyd is an American soul/R&B singer and songwriter, best known for his work on the Stax record label in the 1960s and 1970s and the song "Knock on Wood".-Biography:...

/Wayne Jackson
The Memphis Horns
The Memphis Horns are an American horn section made famous by their many appearances on Stax Records. They have been called "arguably the greatest soul horn section ever." Originally a sextet, the Memphis Horns gradually slimmed down to a duo, Wayne Jackson on trumpet and Andrew Love on tenor...

) – 4:20
"Where There's a Will There's a Way" (Bonnie Bramlett/Bobby Whitlock) – 4:57
"That's What My Man Is For" (Bessie Griffin
Bessie Griffin
Bessie Griffin was an African American gospel singer.Born Arlette B. Broil in New Orleans, Louisiana, she was steeped in church music as a child...

) – 4:41
"I Don't Want to Discuss It" (Beth Beatty/Dick Cooper/Ernie Shelby) – 4:55
- [7-10] from On Tour with Eric Clapton.
"Soul Shake" (Margaret Lewis/Myrna Smith) – 3:10
"Free The People" (Barbara Keith) – 2:47
"The Love of My Man" (Ed Townsend) – 4:28
- [11-13] from To Bonnie from Delaney.
"Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Will the Circle Be Unbroken is a 1972 album officially by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, but with collaboration from many famous Bluegrass and country-western players, including Roy Acuff, Mother Maybelle Carter, Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs, Merle Travis, Bashful Brother Oswald, Norman Blake, Jimmy...

" (A.P. Carter) – 2:42
"Never Ending Song of Love" (Delaney Bramlett) – 3:20
"Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad" (Traditional, arr. Delaney Bramlett) – 5:12
- [14-16] from Motel Shot.
"Only You Know and I Know (studio version)" (Dave Mason) – 3:26
- Recorded 1969, and originally issued on Atco single #6851 (1971); subsequently included in D&B Together. Produced by Delaney Bramlett.
"Move 'Em Out" (Steve Cropper/Bettye Crutcher) – 2:50
- Recorded 1971, and originally issued on Atco single #6866 (1972); subsequently included in D&B Together. Produced by Delaney Bramlett.

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