Brujo Explained

Brujo
Type:Album
Artist:New Riders of the Purple Sage
Cover:NRPS_Brujo.jpg
Released:November 1974
Recorded:1974
Genre:Country rock
Length:34:17
Label:Columbia
Producer:Ed Freeman
Prev Title:Home, Home on the Road
Prev Year:1974
Next Title:Oh, What a Mighty Time
Next Year:1975

Brujo is an album by the American country rock band New Riders of the Purple Sage. It is their fifth studio album, and their sixth album overall. It was recorded in 1974 and released that same year by Columbia Records.

Brujo was the first New Riders album to feature ex-Byrd Skip Battin. Battin had replaced Dave Torbert as the New Riders' bass player after Torbert left to form Kingfish.

One single was released in conjunction with the album—"You Angel You"/"Parson Brown".

Track listing

  1. "Old Man Noll" (John Dawson) – 2:44
  2. "Ashes of Love" (Jack Anglin, Johnnie Wright) – 2:14
  3. "You Angel You" (Bob Dylan) – 2:43
  4. "Instant Armadillo Blues" (Dawson) – 2:52
  5. "Workingman's Woman" (Troy Seals, Will Jennings, Don Goodman) – 2:44
  6. "On the Amazon" (Skip Battin, Kim Fowley) – 3:34
  7. "Big Wheels" (Battin, Fowley) – 3:00
  8. "Singing Cowboy" (Battin, Fowley) – 3:57
  9. "Crooked Judge" (Robert Hunter, David Nelson) – 2:59
  10. "Parson Brown" (Dawson) – 3:06
  11. "Neon Rose" (Battin, Fowley) – 4:24

Personnel

New Riders of the Purple Sage

Guest musicians

Production