We the People (Ellen McIlwaine album)
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We the People is a 1973 album by Ellen McIlwaine
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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
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Ellen McIlwaine
Ellen McIlwaine is an American singer-songwriter and musician best known for her career as a slide guitarist.-Biography:...
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The album was re-released on CD in 1993 along with McIlwaine's 1972 debut 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...
as Up From the Skies: The Polydor Years
Up from the Skies: The Polydor Years
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...
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Side A
- "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 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...
) – 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
Side B
- "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
Personnel
- Ellen McIlwaineEllen McIlwaineEllen McIlwaine is an American singer-songwriter and musician best known for her career as a slide guitarist.-Biography:...
- vocals, guitar, piano - Don Payne - bass
- Don Moore - bass (Side B, track 4)
- Jimmy Madison - drums (Side A, track 2; Side B, tracks 1-3)
- Jerry MercerJerry MercerJerry Mercer is a Canadian rock drummer, best known for his work with the groups Mashmakhan and April Wine.-Personal life:...
- drums (Side A, tracks 1, 4) - Colin Tilton - saxophone
- CandidoCandido CameroCandido de Guerra Camero, also known simply as Candido is a Cuban percussionist who backed many Afro-Cuban jazz and straightforward jazz acts since the 1950s...
- conga - West 44th Street Noise Choir - background vocals (Side B, track 1)
- The PersuasionsThe PersuasionsThe Persuasions are an a cappella group that began singing together in Brooklyn, New York in the mid 1960s. They have performed interpretations of both secular and non-secular music, and have covered a wide range of musical genres....
- background vocals on (Side A, track 5)