John Sebastian - John B. Sebastian

Title: John B. Sebastian Artist: John Sebastian Release Date: 1/1970 Re-Released On: 2/20/2007 Label: Vivid, Collectors' Choice Music UPCs: 4540399042312, 617742072020, 0617742072020, 766487655842 Genre: Rock Styles: Singer/Songwriter, Psychedelic, Folk-Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, AM Pop Moods: Earnest, Relaxed, Summery, Amiable/Good-Natured, Gentle, Happy, Intimate, Organic Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 4 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. Red-Eye Express
2. She's a Lady
3. What She Thinks About
4. Magical Connection
5. You're a Big Boy Now
6. Rainbows All Over Your Blues
7. How Have You Been
8. Baby, Don't Ya Get Crazy
9. The Room Nobody Lives In
10. Fa-Fana-Fa
11. I Had a Dream

Year Type Label Catalog # 2007 CD Collectors' Choice Music 07202 2004 CD Vivid 4231 2004 CD Vivid RATCD-4231

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When he led The Lovin' Spoonful from 1965 to 1967, John Sebastian experimented with a variety of styles, expanding from the folk, jug band, and rock & roll that were the band's basic mixture to include everything from country ("Nashville Cats") to orchestrated movie scoring ("Darling, Be Home Soon"). Freed from the confines of a four-piece band, he stretched further on his debut solo album, including the samba-flavored "Magical Connection" and the r&b-styled "Baby, Don't Ya Get Crazy" (complete with The Ikettes on backup vocals) in addition to traditional country on "Rainbows All Over Your Blues," which spotlighted Buddy Emmons on pedal steel guitar. But there were also delicate ballads like the string-filled "She's a Lady," a stripped-down remake of "You're a Big Boy Now," and "The Room Nobody Lives In," the last performed with only a harmonium and bass guitar. And there were pop/rock songs like "Red-Eye Express," "What She Thinks About," and the utopian "I Had a Dream" that you could imagine having fitted easily into the Spoonful's repertoire. The songs continued Sebastian's trend toward a more personal writing style, many of them containing images of travel that corresponded to his peripatetic lifestyle. Like Paul McCartney's McCartney, which followed it into the marketplace by a few months, the album was an eclectic but low-key introduction to the solo career of a former group member whose band was known for more elaborate productions, and all the more effective for that. (John B. Sebastian was the subject of a legal dispute between MGM records and Reprise records, with Reprise winning out, although MGM briefly issued its own version of the LP, apparently taken from a second-generation master. The MGM version is sonically inferior to the Reprise one and has different artwork, but the contents of the two LPs are identical.) ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

Name Credits Bob Fisher Mastering Bruce Botnick Engineer Bruce Langhorne Performer, Tambourine Buddy Emmons Moog Synthesizer, Guitar (Steel), Performer Burt Collins Horn, Performer Buzzy Linhart Performer, Vibraphone Catherine Sebastian Artwork Crosby, David & Graham Nash Performer Dallas Taylor Drums Danny Weiss Guitar David Crosby Guitar Douglas Botnick Engineer Ed Thrasher Art Direction Edison Youngblood Engineer Fritz Richmond Engineer Gayle Levant Harp, Performer Graham Nash Performer, Vocal Harmony Harvey Brooks Bass Henry Diltz Photography Jim Marshall Photography John Harny Engineer John Sebastian Harmonica, Vocals, Guitar, Percussion, Multi Instruments Jose Cuervo Horn Mr. Beutens and Mrs. Stanley and Friends Viol, Lute, Flute Paul "Blind Man" Harris Performer Paul Harris Organ, Keyboards Paul Rothchild Producer Ray Neapolitan Bass Ray Neopolitan Performer, Bass Reinol Andino Conga Richie Unterberger Liner Notes Stephen Stills Performer, Guitar The Ikettes Vocals, Performer