Badger – White Lady 1974 (UK, Soul, Funk Rock)

In 1974, Brian Parrish and David Foster left the band. They were replaced by Jackie Lomax, Paul Pilnick (ex-Steeler's Wheel), and Kim Gardner. Allen Toussaint became the new producer. He plays piano, organ, and percussion, and oversees arrangements, horns, and backing vocals. The band gradually moved away from the music heard on their debut album. Lomax, who became the primary songwriter and lead vocalist, played a significant role in this change in sound. The studio album was recorded in New Orleans. Its sound moved closer to rhythm and blues and soul, featuring trumpets, groups of backing vocalists, and a rhythm section that consistently dominated. The album was not popular with classic rock fans and was panned by critics.By 1974, Badger was reduced to Kaye and Dyke, who reconstructed the group along somewhat different lines with the addition of Paul Pilnick, late of Stealers Wheel, on lead guitar, Kim Gardner (of Ashton, Gardner and Dyke) on bass, and ex-Apple alumnus Jackie Lomax on vocals. In essence, it became Lomax's group, and he pushed the band away from progressive rock and into soul in a serious way; Badger's second album, White Lady, was made up entirely of songs co-authored by Lomax, and produced in New Orleans at Allen Toussaint's studio. The change in direction would have been difficult enough to pull off under the best of conditions, but stability wasn't one of Badger's long suits at this date -- the group had split up before White Lady was even issued, leaving bewildered fans of both the old sound and new to ponder what had just happened.


Tracks:

01. A Dream Of You - 0:00

02. Everybody - Nobody - 4:18

03. Listen To Me - 7:41

04. Don't Pull The Trigger - 12:39

05. Just The Way It Goes - 16:43

06. White Lady - 21:24

07. Be With You - 26:11

08. Lord Who Gives Me Life - 29:52

09. One More Dream To Hold - 32:56

10. The Hole Thing - 37:00


Personnel:

Tony Kaye - keyboards, mellotron
Kim Gardner - bass
Jackie Lomax – rhythm guitar, vocals
Paul Pilnick – lead guitar
Roy Dyke - drums
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Barry Bailey - slide guitar (04-08)
Jeff Beck - guitar solo (06)
Carl Blouin - baritone saxophone, flute
Lester Caliste - trumpet
Mercedes Davis - backing vocals (01-03, 05-08)
Joan Harmon - backing vocals (01-03, 05-08)
Bryn Haworth - slide guitar (03)
Teresipa Henry - backing vocals (01-03, 05-08)
John Lango - trombone
Bobby Montgomery - backing vocals (02-09)
Jessie Smith - backing vocals (02-09)
Alvin Thomas – tenor saxophone
Allen Toussaint – piano (03-04), organ (09), congas (01-03, 10), producer



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