You Never Know Who Your Friends Are

by Al Kooper

You Never Know Who Your Friends Are cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: September 1969
  • Label: Columbia
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 43:40
  • Community rating: 3.1/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Following his departure from Blood, Sweat & Tears, the prolific session musician and producer asserts his individual creative vision with this eclectic studio endeavor. Characterized by prominent brass arrangements and deeply personal songwriting, the record documents a highly ambitious synthesis of soul, pop, and jazz methodologies.

Genres

Tracklist

  1. Magic In My Socks (3:55)
  2. Lucille (3:24)
  3. Too Busy Thinking About My Baby (3:20)
  4. First Time Around (2:48)
  5. Loretta (Union Turnpike Eulogy) (3:48)
  6. Blues, Part IV (5:04)
  7. You Never Know Who Your Friends Are (2:53)
  8. The Great American Marriage/Nothing (4:48)
  9. Don't Know Why I Love You (3:22)
  10. Mourning Glory Story (2:16)
  11. Anna Lee (What Can I Do For You) (3:18)
  12. I'm Never Gonna Let You Down (4:37)

Credits

  • Charlie Calello - arranged by, conductor, vocals [voices], backing vocals
  • Chuck Rainey - bass
  • Jerry Jemmott - bass
  • John Miller - bass
  • Al Rogers - drums
  • Bernard Purdie - drums
  • Eric Gale - guitar
  • Ralph Casale - guitar

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