Tramaine

by Tramaine Hawkins

Tramaine cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 January 1979
  • Label: Light
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 35:45
  • Community rating: 3.96/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Hawkins's solo debut was produced by her husband Walter Hawkins, who wrote every track, and recorded at Wally Heider Studios in San Francisco. It earned a Grammy nomination for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Contemporary, from a singer who had already sung on the Edwin Hawkins Singers' 'Oh Happy Day' at seventeen.

Genres

Descriptors: soulful, spirituality, female-vocals, melodic, call-and-response

Tracklist

  1. Look At Me (4:54)
  2. Lord I Try (3:14)
  3. I'll Be With Him (4:43)
  4. Holy One (6:22)
  5. Call Me (3:19)
  6. Highway (5:14)
  7. When You Pray (3:04)
  8. Will You Be There (4:55)

Credits

  • Tramaine Hawkins - primary artist, backing vocals, lead vocals
  • Joel Smith - bass guitar, percussion
  • Malcom Perry - concept by [cover]
  • Brian J. Hamilton - other [makeup]
  • Daryl Coley - backing vocals, backing vocals [backup lead]
  • Daniel Hawkins - piano [acoustic], electric piano [yamaha piano], organ [hammond]
  • Edwin Hawkins - piano [acoustic], backing vocals
  • Renard Webb - piano [acoustic], clavinet, electric piano [fender rhodes]
  • Phil Edwards - engineer [wally heider studios], mixed by
  • Christopher Banninger - engineer [martinsound]
  • Alan Bergman - photography by [cover]
  • Joel Clifton - photography by [sleeve]

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