All American Boy (Rick Derringer album) explained
All American Boy is the debut solo studio album by American rock musician Rick Derringer, released in October 1973 by Blue Sky Records. "Joy Ride" and "Time Warp" (not to be confused with The Rocky Horror Picture Show song) are instrumentals.
Critical reception
Reviewing for AllMusic, critic Cub Koda wrote of the album "this is simply Rick Derringer's most focused and cohesive album, a marvelous blend of rockers, ballads, and atmospheric instrumentals", adding it was "one of the great albums of the '70s that fell between the cracks."[1]
Release history
In addition to the conventional two channel stereo version the album was also released in a four channel quadraphonic edition on LP record and 8-track tape in 1974. The quad LP release was encoded in the SQ matrix system.
The album was reissued in the UK on the Super Audio CD format in 2018 by Dutton Vocalion. This release is a two albums on one disc compilation which also contains Derringer's 1975 album Spring Fever. The Dutton Vocalion disc contains the complete stereo and quad versions of both albums.
Track listing
All tracks composed by Rick Derringer; except where indicated
Side one
- "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo" - 3:43
- "Joy Ride" - instrumental - 1:50
- "Teenage Queen" - 3:31
- "Cheap Tequila" - 2:44
- "Uncomplicated" - 3:40
- "Hold" (Derringer, Patti Smith) - 3:12
Side two
- "The Airport Giveth (The Airport Taketh Away)" - 2:49
- "Teenage Love Affair" - 3:20
- "It's Raining" - 2:05
- "Time Warp" - instrumental - 2:53
- "Slide On Over Slinky" - 4:21
- "Jump, Jump, Jump" - 6:00
Personnel
"Rock and Roll Hoochie-Koo"
"Joy Ride"
- Rick Derringer – guitar, bass
- Bobby Caldwell – drums
- Joe Lala – congas, cowbell
"Teenage Queen"
"Cheap Tequila"
- Rick Derringer – acoustic guitar, pedal steel guitar, bass, tambourine, lead vocals
- David Bromberg – dobro
- Paul Harris – piano
- Bobby Caldwell – drums
- Carl Hall – backing vocals
- Lani Groves – backing vocals
- Tasha Thomas – backing vocals
"Uncomplicated"
- Rick Derringer – lead guitar, lead vocals
- Joe Walsh – electric guitar
- Kenny Passarelli – bass
- Joe Vitale – drums
- Joe Lala – cowbell
"Hold"
- Rick Derringer – acoustic guitar, bass, lead vocals
- Edgar Winter – piano
- Bobby Caldwell – drums
- Carl Hall – backing vocals
- Lani Groves – backing vocals
- Tasha Thomas – backing vocals
"The Airport Giveth (The Airport Taketh Away)"
- Rick Derringer – guitar, bass, organ, tambourine, lead vocals
- Edgar Winter – piano
- Bobby Caldwell – drums
- Carl Hall – backing vocals
- Lani Groves – backing vocals
- Tasha Thomas – backing vocals
"Teenage Love Affair"
- Rick Derringer – guitar, bass, lead vocals, backing vocals
- Bobby Caldwell – drums
"It's Raining"
- Rick Derringer – guitar, bass, lead vocals
- Jean "Toots" Thielemans – chromatic harmonica
- Paul Harris – piano
- Bobby Caldwell – drums
- Joe Lala – congas
"Time Warp"
- Rick Derringer – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, electric sitar, bass, tambourine, maracas
- Edgar Winter – organ
- Bobby Caldwell – drums
- Joe Lala – congas
- "Slide on Over Slinky"
- Rick Derringer – guitar, bass, hair-drum, cowbell, lead vocals
- Edgar Winter – synthesized clavinet
- Bobby Caldwell – drums
- Carl Hall – backing vocals
- Lani Groves – backing vocals
- Tasha Thomas – backing vocals
- "Jump, Jump, Jump"
- Rick Derringer – guitar, bass, gong, lead vocals
- Edgar Winter – electric piano, acoustic piano
- Bobby Caldwell – drums
Notes and References
- Web site: All American Boy - Rick Derringer | Songs, Reviews, Credits. AllMusic. December 23, 2019.
- Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 88.
