Tigger2's Music Madness Tracy Nelson/Mother Earth: Poor Man's Paradise FACTORY SEALED LP

Format: Sealed LP
Country: U.S.A. Record Company & Release Number: Columbia: KC 31759
Original release date: 1973
Bar Code: NONE Condition of the cover: Near Mint
Condition of the record: Sealed - Assumed Mint Shipping Weight: 1 pounds, 1 ounces
My inventory number: 209211 Notes: Minor shelf wear to the shrink wrap on the upper left corner of the cover. Minor shelf wear to the lower right corner of the cover.

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Songs

Poor Man's Paradise Cruel Wind When I Need You Most of All I Hate to Say Goodbye You and Me Jack's Waltz I Just Can't Seen to Care Going Back to Tennessee Whatever I Am, You Made Me

Credits

John Andrews: Guitar

Jack Ashkinazy: Mastering Anita Ball: Vocals (bckgr) Dennis Burnside: Horn Arrangements Terry Burnside: Horn, Saxophone Sylvia Caldwell: Vocals (bckgr) Sadie Cantrell: Vocals (bckgr) Jerry Carrigan: Percussion, Drums John Dent: Mastering Beau Dollar: Percussion, Drums Mac Gayden: Guitar, Slide Guitar Dennis Good: Trombone Irving Kane: Trombone, Horn Jack Lee: Guitar, Vocals, Vocals (bckgr) Steve Mandell: Bass Jim McGuire: Photography Andrew McMahon: Keyboards Andy McMahon: Keyboards, Vocals (bckgr), Horn Arrangements Stephen J. Mendell: Bass Tracy Nelson: Piano, Keyboards, Vocals, Liner Notes Billy Puett: Trumpet, Saxophone Travis Rivers: Producer Randy Scruggs: Guitar, Slide Guitar Tom Smith: Trumpet Tommy Smith: Horn, Horn Arrangements Pete Tytler: Artwork

Album Review

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Biography

Tracy Nelson biography by Ron Wynn & Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

A very versatile and talented vocalist, Tracy Nelson is better known for her role as lead singer of Mother Earth. The Nashville sextet had three albums in a country-rock vein make the charts in the late '60s and early '70s. But Nelson is just as capable in soul, R&B, and blues, though she hasn't released many records in that style. Her albums for Flying Fish were more indicative of her eclecticism, but her R&B and blues roots are really evident on her 1993 release In the Here and Now and 1995's I Feel So Good -- both on Rounder Records.

Born in California but raised in Madison, WI, Nelson began playing music when she was a student at the University of Wisconsin. Nelson began singing folk and blues at coffeehouses and R&B and rock & roll at parties with a covers band called the Fabulous Imitators. In 1964, she recorded an album for Prestige, Deep Are the Roots, which was produced by Sam Charters. Two years after recording Deep Are the Roots, Nelson headed out to the West Coast, spending some time in Los Angeles before settling in San Francisco. After arriving in San Francisco, she formed Mother Earth in 1968, moving the group to Nashville the following year. The band stayed together for five years, recording several albums for Mercury Records, among a handful of other labels. Nelson left the band in the mid-'70s, embarking on a solo career that saw her release albums for a variety of labels, including Columbia, Atlantic, and Flying Fish.

Nelson continued to record and perform into the '90s. In 1993, she released In the Here and Now, her first album for Rounder Records and, not coincidentally, her first straight blues record since she began recording in the '60s. Nelson followed In the Here and Now with several acclaimed records of gritty blues-rock for Rounder, switching to Memphis International for the release of You'll Never Be a Stranger at My Door in 2007.

Mother Earth biography by Greg Prato, All Music Guide
The late-'60s/early-'70s blues-rock outfit Mother Earth was led by singer Tracy Nelson and issued several somewhat underappreciated releases during their time span. Nelson was originally from Madison, WI, and it was while attending the University of Wisconsin that the singer was discovered by producer Sam Charters and was eventually signed to a recording contract with the Prestige label. 1965 saw the release of Nelson's solo debut, the folk-based Deep Are the Roots, and when it didn't exactly burn up the charts, Nelson decided to relocate to San Francisco, with the hopes of forming a more conventional rock outfit. Shortly after arriving on the West Coast, Mother Earth was formed, which led to performances at the famed Fillmore West, opening for the likes of Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Burdon. After an appearance on the soundtrack to the 1968 motion picture Revolution (which also featured the Quicksilver Messenger Service and the Steve Miller Band), Mother Earth signed with Mercury Records and issued a steady stream of releases until the early '70s.

These albums included 1968's Living with the Animals 1969's Tracy Nelson Country and Make a Joyful Noise, 1970's Satisfied, 1971's Bring Me Home, 1972's Tracy Nelson/Mother Earth, and 1973's Poor Man's Paradise, before Nelson pursued a solo career. Subsequently, Nelson earned a Grammy nomination in 1974 for the track "After the Fire Is Gone" (a duet with Willie Nelson) and continued to issue solo albums until the early '80s, when she became disillusioned with the direction that popular music was going in (although she did sing backup for Neil Young for a spell in the mid-'80s, including appearing with Young at the mammoth Live Aid concert in 1985). Nelson returned to music in the '90s, beginning with 1993's In the Here and Now, continuing to issue solo recordings (and in 1998, earned another Grammy nomination for the release Sing It!, a collaboration with Marcia Ball and Irma Thomas).

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