What Color Is Love

by Terry Callier

What Color Is Love cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: August聽1972
  • Label: Cadet
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 40:30
  • Community rating: 4.9/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The pinnacle of Terry Callier's trilogy of albums with producer Charles Stepney, 'What Color Is Love' is a masterful fusion of folk, soul, and jazz. Stepney's lush, orchestral arrangements provide a dramatic, almost cinematic backdrop for Callier's intricate acoustic guitar work and impassioned, wide-ranging vocals. The album moves between sprawling, multi-part epics like "Dancing Girl" and tender ballads, consistently exploring themes of love and social observation with a deep, spiritual resonance.

Genres

Descriptors: soulful, orchestral, folk, ballad, storytelling

Tracklist

  1. Dancing Girl (09:01)
  2. What Color Is Love (04:04)
  3. You Goin' Miss Your Candyman (07:19)
  4. Just As Long As We're In Love (03:40)
  5. Ho Tsing Mee (A Song Of The Sun) (04:19)
  6. I'd Rather Be With You (06:38)
  7. You Don't Care (05:29)

Credits

  • Terry Callier - guitar, vocals, written-by
  • Donald Myrick - alto saxophone, flute
  • Kitty Haywood - backing vocals
  • Shirley Wahls - backing vocals
  • Vivian Harrell - backing vocals
  • Louis A. Satterfield - bass
  • Karl B. Fruth - cello
  • Leonard Chausow - cello
  • Alfred Nalls - congas, bongos
  • Fred Walker - congas, percussion
  • Donny Simmons - drums
  • Morris Jennings - drums
  • Ethel Merker - french horn, horn
  • Paul Tervelt - french horn
  • Phil Upchurch - guitar
  • Cyril Touff - harmonica
  • Edward Druzinsky - harp
  • Bobby Christian - percussion
  • Charles Stepney - producer, arranged by, conductor, electric piano, piano, orchestral arrangement
  • Arthur Hoyle - trumpet
  • John Howell - trumpet
  • William Faldner - violin
  • Joseph Golan - violin
  • Elliot M. Golub - violin
  • Ruth Goodman - violin
  • Irving Kaplan - violin
  • Jerry Sabransky - violin
  • Theodore Silavin - violin
  • Bruce Hayden - viola
  • Harold D. Klatz - viola
  • Harold Kupper - viola
  • Roger Moulton - viola
  • Roger Anfinsen - engineering, engineer
  • Brian Christian - remixing, engineer [remix]
  • Gary Starr - engineer [supervising]
  • Joel Brodsky - photography by
  • Evelyn Greco - supervised by, coordinator

More from Terry Callier: full discography