Music from Free Creek explained

Music from Free Creek is an album from a series of 1969 "super session" recordings by Free Creek, a group composed of a number of internationally renowned musical artists of the time, including Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Keith Emerson, Buzz Feiten, Mitch Mitchell and Linda Ronstadt. Joe Viglione from www.allmusic.com has stated that "Music from Free Creek is a super session album, where the musicians are playing for the fun of it, and that comes across. The material doesn't get bogged down in 'names'; it just flows."[1]

History

The recordings, made in 1969, were released in 1973 in England as CADS 101 by Charisma Records and in the U.S. by Buddah Records,[2] as a two-record set. The material was re-released by Charisma in 1976, as Summit Meeting. It was released on CD by Lake Eerie Records in 2002,[3] and re-released by the same company in 2006.[4] [5]

Track Listing and Personnel

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The Eric Clapton ("King Cool") Session

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1. No One Knows (lyrics by Tom Cosgrove and Stu Woods, music by Moogy Klingman)

2. Road Song (Klingman)

3. Getting Back To Molly (Klingman)

The Jeff Beck ("A.N. Other") Session

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4. Cissy Strut (A. Neville, L. Nocentelli, G. Porter, Jr. and J. Modeliste)

5. Big City Woman (Klingman)

6. Cherrypicker (Jeff Beck, Moogy Klingman, Stu Woods and Roy Markowitz)

7. Working in a Coalmine (Written by Allen Toussaint)

The Keith Emerson Session

8. Freedom Jazz Dance (Eddie Harris)

9. On the Rebound (Floyd Cramer)

10. Mother Nature's Son (Lennon and McCartney)

The Harvey Mandel Session

11. Sympathy for the Devil (Jagger/Richards)

12. Earl's Shuffle (Harvey Mandel and Earle Doud)

13. The Girl from Ipanema (Antonio Carlos Jobim and Norman Gimbel)

Odds & Sods

14. Hey Jude (Lennon and McCartney)

15. Lay Lady Lay (Dylan)

16. Kilpatrick's Defeat (Moogy Klingman and Mike Gayle)

The Linda Ronstadt Session

17. Living Like a Fool (Maxwell and Crutchfield)[13]

18. He Darked the Sun (Bernie Leadon and Gene Clark)[13] [14]

The Free Creek Horns are:

The Free Creek Singers are:

Other Credits and Particulars

Music from Free Creek was recorded and mixed in New York City at The Record Plant, June, July & August, 1969

Produced by Earle Doud and Tom Flye
Executive Producer and Musical Director: Moogy Klingman
Engineers: Tony Bongiovi and Jack Hunt
Additional mixes: Keith Emerson and Neil Slaven
Album cover painting by Ronchetti and Day
Album cover design: Hipgnosis

Track listing

The UK release of the double LP arranges the tracks in the following order:

LP 1, side A (ADS1A, stated running time 17:52)

LP1, side B (ADS1B, stated running time 15:50)

LP2, side A (ADS2A, stated running time 17:21)

LP2, side B (ADS2B, stated running time 15:42)

The 2006 Lake Eerie single CD Free Creek LER 43014 has the same 18 tracks in the same order from LP1 side A through to LP2 side B, with some minor variations in track titles and musician credits.

References

  1. Joe Viglione, Review of Music from Free Creek: The Long Lost Super Session Album, 2003; All Music Guide, as reprinted by www.answers.com.
  2. U.S. distributor of Charisma Records as of 1971; see Charisma Records.
  3. See [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r597391|pure_url=yes}} ''Music from Free Creek'' CD Release Particulars]; www.allmusic.com.
  4. It is unclear whether Lake Eerie Records is releasing the album with the requisite permissions or clearances. Peter Kaukonen alleges that his own material is being distributed by Lake Eerie Records without his consent and in circumstances where he is receiving no royalties. See The Devil Finds Work For Idle Thoughts (PK Editorials); March 31, 2006; www.peterkaukonen.com.
  5. In addition, Moogy Klingman, the executive producer, appears to have manufactured CD copies from the record, which he has made available for sale; www.moogymusic.com. The ownership and location of the master tapes are uncertain.
  6. See Details of Track Listing and Personnel by Moogy Klingman who, at the age of nineteen, was the album's executive producer, musical director and a principal co-writer of many of the album songs; www.moogymusic.com.
  7. https://web.archive.org/web/20140419012235/http://www.moogymusic.com/CDs/freecreek.html Interview with Moogy Klingman
  8. Associated with Janis Joplin 1968-1969 as the drummer in her Kozmic Blues Band. Left prior to band recording album. See Miguel Terol, Roy Markowitz Info; The Musicians' Olympus.
  9. played and recorded in the Buddy Rich Band
  10. Members of Canned Heat, recording around the same time as the band's appearance at Woodstock.
  11. Richard "Didymus" Washington, a percussionist touring at the time with Dr. John; see Dr. John. Washington later contributed to the Los Angeles sessions of the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street album, most notably the marimbas on "Sweet Black Angel".
  12. Members of the First National Band, with Mike Nesmith.
  13. Later released as a single; see Linda Ronstadt discography
  14. Later appearing on Ronstadt's Silk Purse album (1970); also known as "He Dark The Sun".

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