Be What You Want To
| Be What You Want To | ||||
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| Released | March 1973 | |||
| Recorded | 1972 | |||
| Studio | Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco | |||
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| Length | 42:55 | |||
| Label | Polydor | |||
| Producer | Thomas Jefferson Kaye | |||
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Allmusic |   [1] |
Be What You Want To is the 1973 album by American guitarist Link Wray. The album was recorded in 1972 with many guest musicians, including Jerry Garcia, Commander Cody, and David Bromberg.[2][3]
Track listing
All tracks by Link Wray except where noted.
- "Be What You Want To" - 5:57
- "All Cried Out" (Mann Curtis, Michel Deborah) - 3:48
- "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" (Lloyd Price) - 2:41
- "Tucson, Arizona" - 4:18
- "Riverbend" - 2:40
- "You Walked By" - 3:17
- "Walk Easy, Walk Slow" - 5:20
- "All the Love in My Life" - 4:05
- "You Really Got a Hold on Me" - 4:04
- "Shine the Light" - 4:43
- "Morning" - 2:02
Personnel
- Link Wray - electric guitar, lead vocals
- Jerry Garcia - guitar, pedal steel
- Commander Cody- piano, keyboards
- Lance Dickerson - drums
- Andy Stein - fiddle
- Bobby Black - steel guitar
- David Bromberg - acoustic guitar, electric guitar
- Chris Michie - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, backing vocals
- Tom Salisbury - organ, piano, Clavinet, backing vocals, horn arrangements, string arrangements
- Peter Kaukonen - electric guitar
- John McFee - electric guitar
- Paul Barlow - bass
- Teresa Adams - cello
- Jules Broussard - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
- Jack Schroer - Baritone saxophone
- Greg Douglass - slide guitar
- Kip Maercklein - bass
- Rick Shlosser - drums
- Tom Harrell - trumpet
- Jules Rowell - valve trombone
- Nathan Rubin - violin
- Bruce Steinberg - harmonica
- David Coffin, Henry Coleman, Keith Crossan, Frank Demme, Diane Earl, Robert Frost, Zeller Hurd, Carl Johnson, Thomas Jefferson Kaye, Greg Kenney, Barbara Mauritz, Dorothy Morrison, Ralph Payne - backing vocals
Production
- Producer: Thomas Jefferson Kaye
- Recording Engineer: Mallory Earl, Don Ososke
- Mixing: Mallory Earl
- Photography: Bruce Steinberg
- Art Direction: Bruce Steinberg
- Cover Design: Bruce Steinberg
References
- ^ a b c https://www.allmusic.com/album/r22287
- ^ Take Me to a Circus Tent: The Jefferson Airplane Flight Manual 0741436566 Craig Fenton - 2006 - Mallory helped me play on the Link Wray album (Be What You Want To). Mallory heard Mistress and came up with an idea, we would go into the studio during off hours and record. We got a fully polished album, as if we had recorded it quote ...
- ^ The Encyclopedia of Native Music: More Than a Century of Recordings 0816524475 Brian Wright-McLeod - 2005 Be What You Want To [Polydor ..
