It Looks Like Snow Explained

It Looks Like Snow
Type:	Studio album
Artist:	Phoebe Snow
Cover:	PhoebeSnowLooksLike.jpg
Released:	1976
Recorded:	Cherokee Studios (Los Angeles, California) Wally Heider Studios (San Francisco, California)
Genre:	R&B^[1] soft rock jazz pop
Label:	Columbia
Producer:	David Rubinson
Prev Title:	Second Childhood
Prev Year:	1976
Next Title:	Never Letting Go
Next Year:	1977

It Looks Like Snow is the third album by singer–songwriter Phoebe Snow, released in 1976.

Reception

In a retrospective review for Allmusic, critic Joe Viglione called the album "an overpowering collection of pop-jazz-funk-folk that puts this amazing vocalist's talents in a beautiful light... It Looks Like Snow is a major work from a fabulous performer traversing styles and genres with ease and elegance." Robert Christgau wrote of the album; "Snow's gifts as a singer and lyricist are finally channeled. The silly mystical ideas are way down below her overriding good sense; up above we find a fairly strong, direct, and happy woman who is by no means vegetating in her contentment..."

Track listing

All songs written by Phoebe Snow, except where noted.

1. "Autobiography (Shine, Shine, Shine)" – 5:15
2. "Teach Me Tonight" (Gene De Paul, Sammy Cahn) – 4:30
3. "Stand Up on the Rock" – 3:58
4. "In My Girlish Days" (Ernest Lawlars) – 4:48
5. "Mercy on Those" – 6:06
6. "Don't Let Me Down" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 5:51
7. "Drink Up the Melody (Bite the Dust, Blues)" – 5:51
8. "Fat Chance" – 2:56
9. "My Faith Is Blind" – 5:54
10. "Shakey Ground" (Eddie Hazel, Jeffrey Bowen, Angelo Bond) – 4:18

Personnel

• Phoebe Snow – lead vocals, backing vocals, guitars
• Reginald "Sonny" Burke – keyboards, string arrangements
• David Pomeranz – keyboards on "Mercy on Those"
• David Bromberg – guitars
• Steve Burgh – guitars
• Ray Parker Jr. – guitars
• Greg Poree – guitars
• Chuck Domanico – bass
• Reggie McBride – bass
• James Gadson – drums
• Ed Greene – drums
• Harvey Mason – drums
• Andy Narell – steel drums
• Hadley Caliman – horns
• Mel Martin – horns
• Kurt McGettrick – horns, horn arrangements
• Bob Yance – horns
• The Golden Age Jazz Band on "Autobiography (Shine, Shine, Shine)"
• Phil Kearns – backing vocals
• The Waters Family – backing vocals

Production

• Producer – David Rubinson
• Engineers – David Rubinson and Fred Catero
• Mastered by Phil Brown and George Horn at Columbia Studios (San Francisco, CA).
• Photography – Norman Seeff and Phil Kearns

Charts

Chart (1977)	Peak position
Australia (Kent Music Report)^[2]	64
U.S. (Billboard 200)^[3]	29

Notes and References

1. Book: Phoebe Snow. Coleman. Mark. Sarig. Roni. . 2004 . . 4th . Brackett . Nathan . Hoard . Christian . 0-7432-0169-8 . 756.
2. 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. 280.
3. Billboard vol 88 #52 (25 December 1976) p.69