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Don McLean's final album for United Artists was a musical tour de force, and the best self-contained account of the full breadth of McLean's talent. Recorded live in England, in Manchester, Bristol, London, and Oxford, the 26 songs encompassed not only the artist's best-known work, but also many of his personal favorites, among them works by other composers (including Bob Dylan's "Masters of War"). All the songs are done solo by McLean on acoustic guitar and banjo, performing in a loose, freewheeling style more appropriate to a folk performance at a small club than a rock concert -- except that McLean was doing these performances to tens of thousands of people at a time. He ranges freely across his repertory, including a loose yet sincere rendition of "American Pie" and a stunning version of "Till Tomorrow" (his encore), through "The Arkansas Traveller" and "Homeless Brother" to "Castles in the Air," the last in a version that makes the studio recording seem cold and sterile. Ironically, given that it's one of the best records he ever put out and a great capstone to his career at United Artists, Solo was the only album he ever did for the label that never charted, in either England or America, possibly because it was a double-LP and very expensive, and was also issued just late enough into the 1970s to run into the twin juggernauts of punk and disco.
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DON MCLEAN, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - John Peters, Producer - Herbert Weiner, Producer
℗ 1976 Capitol Records, LLC
Bob Dylan, ComposerLyricist - DON MCLEAN, MainArtist - John Peters, Producer - Herb Gart, Producer
℗ 1976 Capitol Records, LLC
DON MCLEAN, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - John Peters, Producer - Herb Gart, Producer
℗ 1976 Capitol Records, LLC
DON MCLEAN, MainArtist - Josh White, ComposerLyricist - John Peters, Producer - Herb Gart, Producer
℗ 1976 Capitol Records, LLC
Warren Bernhardt, Piano - Lee Hays, RecordingArranger - DON MCLEAN, Banjo, Vocalist, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist, AcousticGuitar - Mike Mainieri, Vibraphone, Marimba - Roy MArkowitz, Percussion, DrumKit - Ed Freeman, Producer, StringArranger - Tom Flye, Engineer - Ray Colcord, Piano - Robert David Rothstein, Vocalist, BassGuitar - West Forty Fourth Street Rhythm And Noise Choir, Chorus
℗ 1973 Capitol Records, LLC
DON MCLEAN, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - John Peters, Producer - Herb Gart, Producer
℗ 1976 Capitol Records, LLC
Traditional, ComposerLyricist - Lee Hays, WorkArranger - DON MCLEAN, MainArtist, WorkArranger - Ed Freeman, Producer
℗ 1976 Capitol Records, LLC
DON MCLEAN, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - John Peters, Producer - Herb Gart, Producer
℗ 1976 Capitol Records, LLC
DON MCLEAN, MainArtist - D. Mclean, Composer - Arranged & Adapted By, Composer - John Peters, Producer - Herb Gart, Producer
℗ 1975 Capitol Records, LLC
G. Vaughn, ComposerLyricist - DON MCLEAN, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Jimmie Rodgers, ComposerLyricist - John Peters, Producer - Herb Gart, Producer
℗ 1976 Capitol Records, LLC
DON MCLEAN, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - John Peters, Producer - Herb Gart, Producer
℗ 1976 Capitol Records, LLC
DON MCLEAN, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - John Peters, Producer - Herb Gart, Producer
℗ 1976 Capitol Records, LLC
DON MCLEAN, MainArtist - John Peters, Producer - Herb Gart, Producer - Frances Octavia Smith, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1976 Capitol Records, LLC
DON MCLEAN, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - John Peters, Producer - Herb Gart, Producer
℗ 1976 Capitol Records, LLC
DON MCLEAN, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - John Peters, Producer - Herb Gart, Producer
℗ 1976 Capitol Records, LLC
DON MCLEAN, MainArtist - Clifford Grey, ComposerLyricist - Vivian Ellis, ComposerLyricist - Ed Freeman, Producer, RecordingArranger - Greatrex Newman, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1973 Capitol Records, LLC
David Spinozza, Guitar - Paul Griffin, Piano - DON MCLEAN, Banjo, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Roy MArkowitz, DrumKit - Ed Freeman, Producer - Tom Flye, Engineer - Ray Colcord, Piano - Robbie Rothstein, BassGuitar - West 44th Street Rhythm And Noise Choir, Chorus
℗ 1973 Capitol Records, LLC
Traditional, ComposerLyricist - DON MCLEAN, MainArtist, WorkArranger - John Peters, Producer - Herb Gart, Producer
℗ 1973 Capitol Records, LLC
Ralph MacDonald, Percussion - Garnett Brown, Trombone - David Spinozza, Guitar - Willie Weeks, BassGuitar - Hugh McCracken, Guitar - Richard Tee, Keyboard - Seldon Powell, TenorSaxophone - Joel Dorn, Producer - Cissy Houston, BackgroundVocalist - Arthur Jenkins, Keyboard - DON MCLEAN, Vocalist, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Andrew Smith, DrumKit - Charles Williams, AltoSaxophone - Danny Moore, Trumpet - George Barrow, TenorSaxophone - Charles Fowlkes, BaritoneSaxophone - Rennelle Stafford, BackgroundVocalist - Deirdre Tuck, BackgroundVocalist - Joseph Wilder, Trumpet - Norma Holmes, BackgroundVocalist
℗ 1973 Capitol Records, LLC
DON MCLEAN, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - John Peters, Producer - Herb Gart, Producer
℗ 1970 Capitol Records, LLC
DON MCLEAN, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - John Peters, Producer, MixingEngineer - Herb Gart, Producer
℗ 1976 Capitol Records, LLC
Irving Mills, ComposerLyricist - DON MCLEAN, MainArtist - Cliff Friend, ComposerLyricist - Ed Freeman, Producer
℗ 1973 Capitol Records, LLC
Vic Maile, RecordingEngineer - DON MCLEAN, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - John Peters, Producer, MixingEngineer - Jesse Henderson, Engineer - Herb Gart, Producer - Gil Markle, Engineer
℗ 1973 Capitol Records, LLC
DON MCLEAN, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - John Peters, Producer, MixingEngineer - Herb Gart, Producer
℗ 1973 Capitol Records, LLC
DON MCLEAN, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - John Peters, Producer, MixingEngineer - Herb Gart, Producer
℗ 1973 Capitol Records, LLC
DON MCLEAN, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - John Peters, Producer, MixingEngineer - Herb Gart, Producer
℗ 1973 Capitol Records, LLC
DON MCLEAN, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - John Peters, Producer, MixingEngineer - Herb Gart, Producer
℗ 1976 Capitol Records, LLC
Album review
Don McLean's final album for United Artists was a musical tour de force, and the best self-contained account of the full breadth of McLean's talent. Recorded live in England, in Manchester, Bristol, London, and Oxford, the 26 songs encompassed not only the artist's best-known work, but also many of his personal favorites, among them works by other composers (including Bob Dylan's "Masters of War"). All the songs are done solo by McLean on acoustic guitar and banjo, performing in a loose, freewheeling style more appropriate to a folk performance at a small club than a rock concert -- except that McLean was doing these performances to tens of thousands of people at a time. He ranges freely across his repertory, including a loose yet sincere rendition of "American Pie" and a stunning version of "Till Tomorrow" (his encore), through "The Arkansas Traveller" and "Homeless Brother" to "Castles in the Air," the last in a version that makes the studio recording seem cold and sterile. Ironically, given that it's one of the best records he ever put out and a great capstone to his career at United Artists, Solo was the only album he ever did for the label that never charted, in either England or America, possibly because it was a double-LP and very expensive, and was also issued just late enough into the 1970s to run into the twin juggernauts of punk and disco.
© Bruce Eder /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 27 track(s)
- Total length: 01:44:18
- Main artists: Don McLean
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92)
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
© 1976 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1976 Capitol Records, LLC
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