Garden Party (Album)
Occupation
- Vocal / Guitar: Rick Nelson
- Lead Guitar / Backing vocals: Allen L. Kemp
- E -Bass / Backing vocals: Stephen A. Love
- Steel Guitar: Tom Brumley
- Drums: Patrick Shanahan
- Flute: Don Nelson
Garden Party is a music album by Rick Nelson And The Stone Canyon band.
Garden Party was published in 1972 by Decca Records and is attributed to the country-rock genre. The album was recorded in Hollywood in the United Studios with a 24 -band machine, the engineer was Michael "Nemo" Shields. It was Rick Nelson's last LP, which was also placed in the charts in the Top 100, the decoupled title song its final placing in the top 40 of the U.S. singles charts.
In the Billboard LP charts that reached first listed in December 1972 album number 32 and stayed for 18 weeks in the top 200
In parentheses are the composer / lyricist are given.
The mid-1960s onset turning Nelsons to the Country and his attempt at a fusion of country music and rock ' n ' roll began with the albums Bright Lights and Country Music ( 1966) and Country Fever (1967 ) on which he coverte traditional country songs. Both albums were unsuccessful, but with them, Nelson created an own style of music, which can be described as a precursor of country-rock. From 1969 albums were released under the artist name " Rick Nelson And The Stone Canyon Band" and it became increasingly played their own compositions. Goods on the previous LP Rudy the Fifth three foreign titles, two of Bob Dylan and Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, it is not composed on Garden Party only I'm Talking About You by Chuck Berry specially for the album.
The album cover was designed by Nelson's wife Kristin with photos of Martin S. Martin, it shows on the Front Cover Rick Nelson with shoulder-length hair in a typical rock 'n' Roller Sacko, of its included defiantly looking back with both hands on the neck Gibson Les Paul guitar holds. The inner cover on the left shows a photo of the Stone Canyon band on which the guitarists keep their instruments in the same way as Nelson on the front cover. On the inside cover to the right is a portrait shot of Nelson, on the back cover there is a photograph of the handwritten draft of the text to Garden Party. The color design of the cover includes only black, white and shades of gray, all the photos are surrounded by a thick, black border.
Apart from the more gentle country-rock title Garden Party dominated harder rock ' n ' roll, the majority of titles such as when I'm Talking About You, I Wanna Be with You, Do not Let Your Good - bye state or Let It Bring You Along. Janet Maslin wrote in her album review in Rolling Stone to the fact that Nelson as sword, as he would wish he could shout out the Rock ' n' Roll.
The album was Nelson for the first Top 40 hit in the LP charts since 1964. Album The Garden Party listed from 9 December 1972 in the U.S. LP charts, reaching number 32 and stayed for 18 weeks in the charts.
Two singles were released from the album:
- Before the release of the album the title song Garden Party was published in July 1972 as a single and was Nelson's last hit. Nelson wrote this song after he had been booed in 1971 at New York's Madison Square Garden at a rock - 'n' -roll revival concert because he did not play his old hits, but only his new songs. In the lyrics of the song Nelson reflects on his alienation from outmoded Rock ' n ' Roll and his turn to the new, unique style of music. The statement text culminates in the sentence that he would prefer to work as a bus driver, as always to play on any revival concerts only his old success hits. In particular, he makes the song about Chuck Berry funny, still making music and so looked like earlier in order to meet the expectations of the audience. Garden Party reached # 6 on the U.S. charts and Nelson got for this single a gold record.
- As a second single in early 1973 Palace Guard was released, the single only reached number 65 on the charts and was Nelson's last listing in the U.S. Hot 100 at all.