I'm Tired of Driving explained

I'm Tired of Driving
Type:	Album
Artist:	Eddie Harris
Cover:	I'm Tired of Driving.jpg
Released:	1978
Recorded:	1978
Studio:	P.S. Recording Studios, Chicago, IL
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	39:19
Label:	RCA PL 12942
Producer:	Richard Evans
Chronology:	Eddie Harris
Prev Title:	How Can You Live Like That?
Prev Year:	1976
Next Title:	Playin' with Myself
Next Year:	1979

I'm Tired of Driving is an album by saxophonist/pianist Eddie Harris, recorded in 1978 and released on the RCA label.^{[1] [2]}

Reception

The Philadelphia Daily News wrote that "Harris sings in an outrageous falsetto and a bathroom baritone."^[3] Newsday deemed the album a "rather unfocused amalgam of rhythm and blues, gospel, bossa nova and disco drone."^[4]

Richard S. Ginell of AllMusic called the album a "somewhat tepid brew of mostly R&B/slanted pop/jazz music with a whiff of disco now and then, utilizing Harris' array of straight and electronically-altered vocals, lots of acoustic tenor sax, and some piano," and said that, "although EH's personal sax sound is always recognizable, and he is more crisply recorded than on any of his Atlantic records, the LP's anonymous, pre-packaged '70s feeling drains much of Harris' personality right out of the studio."

Track listing

All compositions by Eddie Harris except where noted.

1. "Two Times Two Equals Love" (Harris, Y. Harris) – 5:55
2. "You Are the One" (Harris, L. Harris) – 3:57
3. "Songbird" (Dave Wolfert, Steve Nelson) – 4:05
4. "I'm Tired of Driving" (Harris, S. Harris) – 4:50
5. "The Loneliest Monk" – 3:58
6. "Theme for the Foxy Ladies" (Richard Evans) – 3:39
7. "You Stole My Heart" (Harris, S., L, & Y. Harris) – 3:18
8. "There Was a Time" – 5:02
9. "What's Wrong with The World Today" – 4:35

Personnel

• Eddie Harris – varitone, tenor saxophone, piano
• Danny Leake- guitar
• Denzil Miller – keyboards
• Larry Ball – bass
• Steve Cobb, Morris Jennings (track 6) – drums
• Russell Iverson – trumpet
• Robert Lewis – cornet
• Kenneth Brass – flugelhorn
• John Avant, Morris Ellis – trombone
  • John William Haynor – bass trombone Murray Watson, Steele Seals – saxophones
• S. A. Bobrov, Joel Smirnoff, Arnold Roth, Frank Borgognone, Roger Moulton, E. Zlatoff-Mirsky, Elliot Golub, George Palermo – violin
• Martin Abrams, Arnold Sklar – viola
• Karl B. Fruh, Kenneth Slowik – cello
• Cinnamon: Bernadene Davis, Francine Smith, Jo Ann Brown-El – backing vocals

Notes and References

1. http://www.eddieharris.com/#discography Eddie Harris Discography
2. News: Allan . William . Solo Saxophonists Blow Up Music Storm . The Pittsburgh Press . 26 Nov 1978 . H7.
3. News: Nelson . Nels . Jazz . Philadelphia Daily News . 17 Nov 1978 . 48.
4. News: Micklin . Bob . Mostly winners in new offerings . Newsday . 3 Dec 1978 . Part II . 21.