Label: Sanyo (Japan), MFCD 823
Style: Progressive Rock, Art Rock
Country: Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England
Time: 40:51
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 204 Mb
Charts: UK #27, CAN #25, NL #8, NOR #19, US #32.
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Salty Dog has an ostensibly nautical theme, as indicated by its cover
(a pastiche of the famous Player's Navy Cut cigarette pack).
Interspersed with straight rock, blues and pop items, A Salty Dog showed
a slight change of direction from its predecessors, being thematically
less obscure. The title track itself was the first Procol track to use
an orchestra, as would be referred to in the live album performance
released some three years later.
The album was the first record
produced by Matthew Fisher, who quit the band soon after its release.
This was also the last Procol Harum album to feature bass guitarist Dave
Knights.
A Salty Dog was recorded in March 1969. The musical
tensions between Robin Trower and the rest of the group were beginning
to show in this album, and although his guitar sound remains integral to
most of the tracks, "Crucifiction Lane" (featuring a rare Trower
vocal), in retrospect, shows that Trower was already moving in a
different direction from the rest of the band. Still, this album is much
more musically varied than the two previous albums, with three Fisher
vocals and one by Trower. Many of the instruments the band used on A
Salty Dog had been previously used on albums by the Beatles and the
Shadows.
When Gary Brooker first performed "A Salty Dog" on piano
with Keith Reid's lyrics for drummer B. J. Wilson, the room was filled
with sunlight shining through the windows. Wilson, with a sunbeam on his
face, told Brooker he thought "it was the most beautiful song he had
ever heard." The piano intro riff of the title track is inspired by a
train whistle that Brooker heard in Switzerland.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Salty_Dog)
01. A Salty Dog (04:40)
02. The Milk of Human Kindness (03:47)
03. Too Much Between Us (03:45)
04. The Devil Came From Kansas (04:38)
05. Boredom (04:36)
06. Juicy John Pink (02:08)
07. Wreck of the Hesperus (03:48)
08. All This and More (03:53)
09. Crucifiction Lane (05:04)
10. Pilgrims Progress (04:31)
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