Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers [MFSL CD] (1969)

Year: November 1969 (CD Nov 1990)
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (US), UDCD 540
Style: Rock
Country: San Francisco, California, U.S.
Time: 44:38
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 263 Mb

Charts: US #13, UK #34. US: Gold.
Volunteers is the fifth studio album by American psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane, released in 1969 on RCA Records. The album was controversial because of its revolutionary and anti-war lyrics, along with the use of profanity. The original album title was Volunteers of Amerika, but it was shortened after objections from Volunteers of America, a religious charity.
This was the last album with the group for both Jefferson Airplane founder Marty Balin and drummer Spencer Dryden (although they did both appear on the "Mexico" single released in 1970 and its B-side "Have You Seen the Saucers?"). The album signifies the end of their "classic" lineup of musicians. It turned out to be the group's last all-new LP for two years. Jack Casady and Jorma Kaukonen devoted more of their energy to their embryonic blues group Hot Tuna, while Paul Kantner and Grace Slick released Blows Against the Empire and Sunfighter with various guest musicians and celebrated the birth of their daughter China in 1971.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteers_(Jefferson_Airplane_album))
Personnel:
- Grace Slick - lead female vocals, piano on “The Farm”, “Hey Frederick”, “Eskimo Blue Day” & “Volunteers”, organ on “Meadowlands”, recorder on “Eskimo Blue Day”
- Paul Kantner - lead vocals, rhythm guitar
- Marty Balin - lead vocals, percussion
- Jorma Kaukonen - lead guitar
- Jack Casady - bass
- Spencer Dryden - drums, percussion
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- Nicky Hopkins - piano on “We Can Be Together”, “Hey Frederick”, “Wooden Ships”, “A Song For All Seasons” & “Volunteers”
- Steven Stills - Hammond organ on “Turn My Life Down”
- Jerry Garcia - pedal steel guitar on “The Farm”
- Joey Covington - congas on “Turn My Life Down”, chair on “Eskimo Blue Day”
- David Crosby - music sailboat on “Wooden Ships”
- Ace Of Cups (Mary Gannon, Marilyn Hunt, Diane Hursh, Denise Jewkes) - backing vocals on “The Farm” & “Turn My Life Down”

01. We Can Be Together (05:49)
02. Good Shepherd (04:22)
03. The Farm (03:14)
04. Hey Fredrick (08:33)
05. Turn My Life Down (02:56)
06. Wooden Ships (06:28)
07. Eskimo Blue Day (06:36)
08. A Song For All Seasons (03:29)
09. Meadowlands (01:04)
10. Volunteers (02:02)

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