Yer' Album is the first album by the James Gang

James Gang

The James Gang was a rock band formed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1966. Though the band was not a huge commercial success, except in the Northeast Ohio area, the fame garnered by guitarist Joe Walsh has since made the group more notable.- History :...

, released in 1969.

This is the only album featuring the bassist Tom Kriss

James Gang

The James Gang was a rock band formed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1966. Though the band was not a huge commercial success, except in the Northeast Ohio area, the fame garnered by guitarist Joe Walsh has since made the group more notable.- History :...

. On each side of Yer' Album next to the label are grooves. On side one they say "Turn me over". On side two they say "Play me again". The grooves are spaced so they are repeated over and over.

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, critic William Ruhlman wrote the album "Yer' Album contained much to suggest that the James Gang, in particular its guitarist, had a great future, even if it was more an album of performances than compositions."

Track listing

1. "Introduction" (Bert de Coteaux, Jim Fox
   Jim Fox (drummer)
   Jim Fox is a musician best known as the drummer and organist of the James Gang, as well as the band's founder and its namesake. He is the only member of the group to appear in every incarnation of the band...
   
   , Bill Szymczyk
   Bill Szymczyk
   Bill Szymczyk is an American music producer and technical engineer best known for working with rock and blues musicians, most notably the Eagles in the 1970s. He produced many top albums and singles of the 1970s, though he retired from the music business by 1990...
   
   ) – 0:40
2. "Take a Look Around" (Joe Walsh
   Joe Walsh
   Joseph Fidler "Joe" Walsh is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and actor. He has been a member of three commercially successful bands, the James Gang, Barnstorm, and the Eagles, and has experienced notable success as a solo artist and prolific session musician, especially with B.B...
   
   ) – 6:18
3. "Funk #48" (Fox, Tom Kriss, Walsh) – 2:46
4. "Bluebird" (Stephen Stills
   Stephen Stills
   Stephen Arthur Stills is an American guitarist and singer/songwriter best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills & Nash . He has performed on a professional level in several other bands as well as maintaining a solo career at the same time...
   
   ) – 6:02
5. "Lost Woman" (Jeff Beck
   Jeff Beck
   Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck is an English rock guitarist. He is one of three noted guitarists to have played with The Yardbirds...
   
   , Chris Dreja
   Chris Dreja
   Chris Dreja was the rhythm guitarist, and later bassist, in the 1960s British band, The Yardbirds.-Early life:...
   
   , Jim McCarty
   Jim McCarty
   Jim McCarty is an English musician, best known as the drummer for The Yardbirds and Renaissance.-Early life:...
   
   , Keith Relf
   Keith Relf
   Keith William Relf , was a musician best known as the lead singer and harmonica player of The Yardbirds. After the Yardbirds broke up Relf formed the acoustic duo Together, with fellow Yardbird Jim McCarty, followed by Renaissance, which also featured his sister, singer Jane Relf, then hard rock...
   
   , Paul Samwell-Smith
   Paul Samwell-Smith
   Paul Samwell-Smith is best known as a founding member and bassist of the 1960s English band, The Yardbirds, a group that spawned such noteworthy musicians as Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, and Jimmy Page...
   
   ) – 9:06
6. "Stone Rap" (Fox, Kriss, Szymczyk, Walsh) – 1:00
7. "Collage" (Patrick Cullie, Walsh) – 4:02
8. "I Don't Have the Time" (Fox, Walsh) – 2:49
9. "Wrapcity in English" (Walsh) – 0:57
10. "Fred" (Walsh) – 4:09
11. "Stop" (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...
    
    , Mort Shuman
    Mort Shuman
    Mort Shuman was an American singer, pianist and songwriter, best known as co-writer of many 1960s rock and roll hits, including "Viva Las Vegas"...
    
    ) – 12:04

Personnel

• Joe Walsh
  Joe Walsh
  Joseph Fidler "Joe" Walsh is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and actor. He has been a member of three commercially successful bands, the James Gang, Barnstorm, and the Eagles, and has experienced notable success as a solo artist and prolific session musician, especially with B.B...
  
   – guitars, keyboards, piano, vocals.
• Tom Kriss
  James Gang
  The James Gang was a rock band formed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1966. Though the band was not a huge commercial success, except in the Northeast Ohio area, the fame garnered by guitarist Joe Walsh has since made the group more notable.- History :...
  
   – bass guitar, flute, vibraphone, vocals.
• Jim Fox
  Jim Fox (drummer)
  Jim Fox is a musician best known as the drummer and organist of the James Gang, as well as the band's founder and its namesake. He is the only member of the group to appear in every incarnation of the band...
  
   – drums, percussion, keyboards, vocals.

Production

• Joe Walsh, Bill Szymczyk: Producer.
• James Gang, Bill Szymczyk, Bert de Coteaux: Arrangers.
• Bill Szymczyk: Engineer.
• Denis Minervini: Assistant engineer.
• Henry Epstein: Cover design.
• Ladimer Jeric: Cover Art.
• Bill Szymczyk: Photography.