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Procol Harum: A Salty Dog

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Label: A&M Records
Released: 1969.07.01
Time:
 40:18
Category: Progressive Rock
Producer(s): Matthew Fisher
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.procolharum.com
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Purchase date: 2015
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] A Salty Dog (Gary Brooker, Keith Reid) - 4:41
[2] The Milk of Human Kindness (Brooker, Reid) - 3:47
[3] Too Much Between Us (Brooker, Robin Trower, Reid) - 3:45
[4] The Devil Came from Kansas (Brooker, Reid) - 4:38
[5] Boredom (Matthew Fisher, Brooker, Reid) - 4:34
[6] Juicy John Pink (Robin Trower, Reid) - 2:08
[7] Wreck of the Hesperus (Fisher, Reid) - 3:49
[8] All This and More (Brooker, Reid) - 3:52
[9] Crucifiction Lane (Robin Trower, Reid) - 5:03
[10] Pilgrim's Progress (Fisher, Reid) - 4:32

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Gary Brooker – Lead Vocals on [1–4,6,8], Piano, Celeste, Three-Stringed Guitar, Bells, Harmonica, Recorder, Wood, Orchestral Arrangements on [1,8]
Robin Trower – Lead & Acoustic Guitars, Lead Vocals on [9], Sleigh Tambourine
Matthew Fisher – Organ, Lead Vocals on [5,7,10], Marimba, Rhythm And Acoustic Guitars, Piano, Recorder, Orchestral Arrangements on [7], Production
Dave Knights – Bass
Barrie J. Wilson – Drums, Conga Drums, Tabla
Kellogs – Bosun'S Whistle, Refreshments
Keith Reid – Lyrics

Matthew Fisher - Producer
Ken Scott – Engineering on [1–5,8–10]
Ian Stuart – Engineering on [6]
Henry Lewy – Engineering on [7]
Fred Dickinson - Artwork, Design
Chris Welch - Liner Notes

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This album, the group's third, was where they showed just how far their talents extended across the musical landscape, from blues to R&B to classical rock. In contrast to their hastily recorded debut, or its successor, done to stretch their performance and composition range, A Salty Dog was recorded in a reasonable amount of time, giving the band a chance to fully develop their ideas. The title track is one of the finest songs ever to come from Procol Harum and one of the best pieces of progressive rock ever heard, and a very succinct example at that at under five minutes running time - the lyric and the music combine to form a perfect mood piece, and the performance is bold and subtle at once, in the playing and the singing, respectively. The range of sounds on the rest includes "Juicy John Pink," a superb piece of pre-World War II-style country blues, while "Crucifiction Lane" is a killer Otis Redding-style soul piece, and "Pilgrim's Progress" is a virtuoso keyboard workout. A Salty Dog was reissued by Repertoire Records in 1997 with enhanced sound and the lost B-side "Long Gone Geek," a Robin Trower guitar workout par excellence.

Bruce Eder - All Music Guide



Digitally remastered and expanded edition of the British Progressive/Pop band's third album, originally released in 1969. Rightly lauded as Procol Harum's masterpiece, A Salty Dog is one of the high spots of late '60s Rock culture; an unmissable musical voyage, a brilliant example of how to fuse classical music with Rock and a tremendously rewarding experience, enhanced here with six bonus tracks selected by band leader Gary Brooker. When you listen to the album, it becomes clear - from the sweeping title track that opens the album, to the serene 'Pilgrims Progress', which brings it to a conclusion, that A Salty Dog is quite simply Procol's most rewarding album. 16 tracks. Salvo. 2009.

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A Salty Dog is the third studio album by English progressive rock band Procol Harum, released in 1969 by record labels Regal Zonophone and A&M. A 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 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 the group and Robin Trower 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. Reportedly, when Gary Brooker first played "A Salty Dog" at the piano for B.J. Wilson, a sunbeam illumined Wilson's face and he told Brooker he thought it was the most beautiful song he had ever heard. A Salty Dog was released in June 1969 by record labels Regal Zonophone and A&M. The title track, backed with "Long Gone Geek", reached number 44 in the UK Singles Chart in 1969 and the album itself number 27 in the Albums Chart.

John Mendelson, writing for Rolling Stone, called it "a confusing album. At its best it represents the group's greatest success to date with the brand of rock for which the group is known; at its worst it is both surprisingly mediocre and trivial."[5] Robert Christgau, on the other hand, gave it a rare 'A+' grade. In his retrospective review, Bruce Eder of AllMusic wrote, "This album, the group's third, was where they showed just how far their talents extended across the musical landscape, from blues to R&B to classical rock. In contrast to their hastily recorded debut, or its successor, done to stretch their performance and composition range", calling the title track "one of the finest songs ever to come from Procol Harum and one of the best pieces of progressive rock ever heard".

The title track was covered by Transatlantic and was featured on the two-disc Special Edition of The Whirlwind. It is sung by drummer Mike Portnoy. Styx covered the song on their cover album Big Bang Theory (2005) with Lawrence Gowan on lead vocals.

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