New Riders of the Purple Sage - Oh, What A Mighty Time

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Title - Oh, What A Mighty Time
Artist - New Riders of the Purple Sage
2007 - BGO Records - BGOCD 781
1975 - Original Release

New Riders of the Purple Sage - Oh, What A Mighty Time.cue

Track Listing

01 - Mighty Time - (Nix) - 5:13
02 - I Heard You've Been Layin' My Old Lady - (Weir) - 3:24
03 - Strangers on a Train - (Battin, Fowley) - 2:45
04 - Up Against the Wall, Redneck - (Hubbard) - 4:13
05 - Take a Letter, Maria - (Greaves) - 4:07
06 - Little Old Lady - (Wilbur) - 2:52
07 - On Top of Old Smokey - (Traditional) - 2:39
08 - Over And Over - (Dawson) - 3:08
09 - La Bamba - (Traditional, Valens) - 3:44
10 - Going Round the Horn - (Dawson, Wakefield) - 3:33
11 - Farewell, Angelina - (Dylan) - 2:42

Personnel

John Dawson - Guitar, Harmonica, Percussion, Autoharp, Vocals, Siren
Skip Battin - Bass, Percussion, Vocals
Buddy Cage - Pedal Steel, Guitar (Steel), Vocals
Spencer Dryden - Percussion, Drums, Vocals
David Nelson - Guitar, Mandolin, Percussion, Vocals, Bottle

Andrea Ahlgren - Vocals
Bootche Anderson - Vocals
Pene Blanca - Vocals
Lucha Cardenas - Vocals
Patty Santos - Cockrell Vocals
Jerry Garcia - Guitar
Jeff Narell - Percussion, Drums (Steel)
Ray Park - Fiddle, Violin
Saint Beulah's Church Choir - Choir, Chorus
Pattie Santos - Vocals
Marilyn Scott - Vocals
Senator - Vocals
Sylvester "Sly Stone" Stewart - Organ, Piano, Keyboards, Vocals
Pepper Watkins - Vocals

Review by William Ruhlmann
By the time of this, their sixth album, the New Riders of the Purple Sage had deteriorated to the point of recording novelty songs like "I Heard You've Been Layin' My Old Lady" and aging standards like "La Bamba." They managed to talk old friend Jerry Garcia into sitting in on a few songs, but that was no indication that they were back at the level of their first album. Rather, Oh, What a Mighty Time sounded like the work of a competent Marin County bar band, which is pretty much what the New Riders were by this time. The album, their worst seller thus far, was their last for Columbia Records.

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Review by Paul Williams
At the time that this recording was released, it received HORRENDOUS reviews from the critics and is listed as the "worst" release that the band had done to that point and maybe ever. I personally don't see it. I have been a NRPS fan from near the beginning and I love this album! I have been looking for this CD ever since I made the transition from vinyl to CD's.I had pretty much given up ever seeing this in CD. It has fun and joy that characterized the band. The songs are wonderful. I particularly love the musicianship in "Take A Letter Maria" It's my favorite track even though I would have liked to have it mixed so that the second verse was fully audible. Other personal favorites are Strangers on a Train and Farewell, Angelina. Give it a listen; you may be pleasantly surprised!
Review by James E. Rowe
I'd have to agree with the previous reviewer - a much derided release that has all the joy of the mid-life Riders (Up against the Wall, Redneck is a particular favorite, the gospel fand Sly Stone brew of the title track). The musicianship is excellent as it always was when Buddy Cage was on the pedal steel and Dawson and Nelson were up front. Skip Battin brought his (ill-fitting) Byrds like contributions, co-written with Kim Fowley, but after they dominated Brujo, Stranger on a Train was their only offering before he became the next to jump ship and Mike Love (I think) took over bass (and some song-writing) duties for 'Who are Those Guys' which, I must admit, is not anywhere near as fine as this album (so why did it get a CD release on Wounded Bird?). I have to note this is not the first CD release of the album. The excellent Cactus Juice combines Brujo, Oh, What a Mighty Time and Home, Home on the Road as a 2-CD package with a couple of bonus tracks and is well worth the coinage - that's where my (CD) version of this album is located.

http://www.amazon.com/What-Mighty-Time-Riders-Purple/dp/B000OPP9V6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1280169404&sr=1-1

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