🎵 AotW AOTW: Shawn Phillips BRIGHT WHITE (A&M SP 4402)

[LPJim]

Shawn Phillips
BRIGHT WHITE
A&M SP-4402

SIDE ONE
Bright White 2:50/ Salty Tears 3:04/ All the King's Castles 4:33/ Victoria Emmanuele 4:28/ Planned "O" 6:36.

SIDE TWO
Lasting Peace of Mind 6:20/ Technotronic Lad 3:31/ Dream Queen 4:27/ It's A Beautiful Morning 3:16/ Lady of the Blue Rose 6:00.

All songs by Shawn Phillips, Dick James Music Inc. BMI
Produced by Jonathan Weston with the help of Robert Appere (engineer).

Shawn Phillips - guitars, synth, vocals/ Peter Robinson - keyboards/ Barrington York Desouza - drums/ Tony Walmsley - electric guitar/ Chuck Rainey - bass/ Recorded at Clover Recordings, Hollywood/ Design by John Millerburg/ Lettering by John Gabalka/ Photography by Suzanne Ayers/ Russell Kunkel - drums/ Craig Doerge -clavinet/ Lee Sklar -bass/ Danny Kortchmar - guitar/ William Smith - organ/ Chuck Findley - bass.

Reissued as SP 3140 and available on CD thru Shawn's site:

www.shawnphillips.com

BRIGHT WHITE entered the Billboard Top 200 on 12/15/73, charted for 13 weeks and peaked at #72, according to Whitburn's "Top Pop Albums."

JB

 

[Dave]

...It's all about a Bright, hite Light, shining through your mind, and guiding your way... Shawn ditches the Quasi-Mood Music/Pure Traditional-Folk Trappings of his earlier-works, in favor of a much-more modern approach...

The Section: Doerge, Kortchemar, Kunkel & Sklar provide a decent guitar/bass/keyboard/drum-backing on the Title-Track, which also features William D. Smith on organ and Chuck Findley overdubbing himself on trumpet; the album could stand a few more tracks like "Bright Light", backed by these guys, who also show up on Phillips' upcoming album, Spaced, which was basically left-over from this entry...

"Dream Queen" features Larry Carlton on acoustic guitar and Sneaky Pete on pedal steel and "Victoria Emmanuele" has a few shades of his previous stylings, with a bit of George Carlin/Martin Mull-type of wit in the funny lyrics... "Salty Tears" is almost a rewrite of "Hey Miss Lonely"...

This is the only Phillips album, besides Faces (which also featured Robert Appérre's engineering & production, and a bit of similar "modernization" in Shawn's compositions) that I ever owned and enjoyed, but I had a couple of compilations on CD, with collectively, contained at least three of these songs, as well...


Dave