Up from the Skies: The Polydor Years
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Up From the Skies: The Polydor Years is a 1998 compilation album featuring the music of Ellen McIlwaine
during her 1972-1973 recording years with Polydor Records
. The first half of the album is made up of her debut solo album Honky Tonk Angel
while the second half consists of her second album We the People
.
Ellen McIlwaine
Ellen McIlwaine is an American singer-songwriter and musician best known for her career as a slide guitarist.-Biography:...
during her 1972-1973 recording years with Polydor Records
Polydor Records
Polydor is a record label owned by Universal Music Group, headquartered in the United Kingdom.-Beginnings:Polydor was originally an independent branch of the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft. Its name was first used as an export label in 1924, the British and German branches of the Gramophone...
. The first half of the album is made up of her debut solo album Honky Tonk Angel
Honky Tonk Angel (Ellen McIlwaine album)
Honky Tonk Angel is the 1972 debut solo album by Ellen McIlwaine, following her departure from Fear Itself. The first side of the album contains songs that were recorded live at The Bitter End in New York City while side two of the record is made up of studio recordings.The album was re-released on...
while the second half consists of her second album We the People
We the People (Ellen McIlwaine album)
We the People is a 1973 album by Ellen McIlwaine.The album was re-released on CD in 1993 along with McIlwaine's 1972 debut album Honky Tonk Angel as Up From the Skies: The Polydor Years.-Side A:#"Ain't No Two Ways About It " – 4:26...
.
Track listing
All tracks are written by Ellen McIlwaine except where noted.- "Toe Hold" (Isaac HayesIsaac HayesIsaac Lee Hayes, Jr. was an American songwriter, musician, singer and actor. Hayes was one of the creative influences behind the southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served both as an in-house songwriter and as a record producer, teaming with his partner David Porter during the...
/David PorterDavid Porter (musician)David Porter is an American soul musician. Porter is best known as the songwriting and production partner of Isaac Hayes at Stax Records during the 1960s...
) – 4:32 - "Weird of Hermiston" (Jack BruceJack BruceJohn 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...
/Pete BrownPete BrownPeter 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...
) – 5:06 - "Up From the Skies" (Jimi HendrixJimi HendrixJames Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter...
) – 3:52 - "Losing You" – 2:22
- "It's Growing" (Smokey RobinsonSmokey RobinsonWilliam "Smokey" Robinson, Jr. is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and former record executive. Robinson is one of the primary figures associated with Motown, second only to the company's founder, Berry Gordy...
/Warren Moore) – 3:05 - "Ode to Billy Joe" (Bobbie GentryBobbie GentryRoberta Lee Streeter , professionally known as Bobbie Gentry, is a former American singer-songwriter notable as one of the first female country artists to compose and produce her own material...
) – 4:13 - "Pinebo (My Story)" (Guy WarrenGuy WarrenGuy Warren of Ghana or Kofi Ghanaba was a Ghanaian musician, best known as the inventor of Afro-jazz and as a member of The Tempos.- Biography :...
) – 2:41 - "Can't Find My Way HomeCan't Find My Way HomeThe New York No Wave band Swans version of "Can't Find My Way Home" appeared on their 1989 album The Burning World and was also released as a single.- Track listing :# "Can't Find My Way Home"...
" (Steve WinwoodSteve WinwoodStephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood is an English international recording artist whose career spans nearly 50 years. He is a songwriter and a musician whose genres include soul music , R&B, rock, blues-rock, pop-rock, and jazz...
) – 3:39 - "Wings of a Horse" – 4:01
- "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk AngelsIt Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels"It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" is a 1952 country song written by J. D. "Jay" Miller, and originally recorded by Kitty Wells. It was an answer song to the Hank Thompson hit "The Wild Side of Life."...
" (J.D. Miller) – 2:38 - "Wade in the WaterWade in the water"Wade in the Water" is the name of an African-American spiritual first published in New Jubilee Songs as Sung by the Fisk Jubilee Singers by John Wesley Work II and his brother, Frederick J...
" – 4:55 - "Ain't No Two Ways About It (It's Love)" – 4:26
- "All to You" – 3:05
- "Sliding" – 2:52
- "Never Tell Your Mother She's Out of Tune" (Jack Bruce/Pete Brown) – 2:25
- "Farther AlongFarther Along (song)"Farther Along" is a Southern Gospel song published by the Stamps-Baxter Music Company.-History:The lyrics to the song were written in 1911 by Rev. W. A. Fletcher, an itinerant preacher, while he was travelling to the Indian Territories by train...
" (Traditional) – 3:44 - "I Don't Want to Play" – 3:20
- "Underground River" – 3:54
- "Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven (But Nobody Wants To Die)" (Al Fields/Tom DelaneyTom DelaneyCyril Terence "Tom" Delaney was a British sportsman and industrialist, perhaps best known in his later years for being the oldest licensed racing driver in the world, having competed in the same Lea-Francis car for more than three-quarters of a century from 1930 until just a few months before his...
/Timmie RogersTimmie RogersTimmie Rogers was a popular African-American comedian who appeared on many national TV shows in the 1960s and 1970s. Rogers was one of the first Black comedians allowed to directly address a white audience when he worked...
) – 2:25 - "Jimmy Jean" – 2:59
- "We the People" – 3:23
- Tracks 1-11 were originally released as Honky Tonk AngelHonky Tonk Angel (Ellen McIlwaine album)Honky Tonk Angel is the 1972 debut solo album by Ellen McIlwaine, following her departure from Fear Itself. The first side of the album contains songs that were recorded live at The Bitter End in New York City while side two of the record is made up of studio recordings.The album was re-released on...
, March 1972, except for track 5, which is previously unreleased. - Tracks 12-21 were originally released as We the PeopleWe the People (Ellen McIlwaine album)We the People is a 1973 album by Ellen McIlwaine.The album was re-released on CD in 1993 along with McIlwaine's 1972 debut album Honky Tonk Angel as Up From the Skies: The Polydor Years.-Side A:#"Ain't No Two Ways About It " – 4:26...
, January 1973.