Last Round Explained

Last Round
Type:	album
Artist:	the Holy Modal Rounders
Cover:	Holy Modal Rounders - Last Round.jpg
Released:	1978
Recorded:	The Workshop Recording Studios, Douglaston, New York
Genre:	Folk
Length:	36:22
Label:	Adelphi
Producer:	Betty Berkin, Robin Remaily, Peter Stampfel, Steve Weber
Prev Title:	Have Moicy!
Prev Year:	1976
Next Title:	Going Nowhere Fast
Next Year:	1981

Last Round is a studio album by the American musical group the Holy Modal Rounders.^{[1] [2]} It was released in 1978 through Adelphi Records.

Critical reception

The Lincoln Journal Star deemed the album "pleasant, amusing, [and] pretty insignificant," noting that "this is where all the hippies went, in case you'd missed them."^[3] Newsday called it "wacky hippie folk music that is often pleasingly salty and sardonic."^[4]

Personnel

The Holy Modal Rounders

• Peter Stampfel – fiddle, banjo, vocals, design
• Steve Weber – guitar, vocals, bass guitar

The Clamtones

• Ted Deane – saxophone, clarinet, flute
• Dave Reisch – bass guitar
• Roger North – drums
• Robin Remaily – mandolin, guitar, steel guitar, piano, fiddle, vocals
• Richard Tyler – piano

Additional musicians and production

• Candace – design
• Betty Berkin – vocals on "Poison Sugar"
• Kevin Kelly – engineering
• Jeff Kracke – engineering
• George Marino – mastering
• Barbara Mathe – design
• Charlie Messing – guitar on "If You Want to Be a Bird/Wild Blue Yonder"
• Trudy Rosen – photography
• Bob Sasson – photography

Notes and References

1. News: Swartley . Ariel . Round They Go Again, as Full of Fun as Ever . The New York Times . 18 July 1999 . 2.30.
2. Book: The Rough Guide to Rock . 2003 . Rough Guides . 503 . 3rd.
3. News: Becker . Bart . The Holy Modal Rounders, Last Round . Lincoln Journal Star . 7 Feb 1979 . 29.
4. News: Robins . Wayne . Holy Modal Rounders: 'Last Round' . Newsday . 10 May 1979 . Part II . 66.