Lasso from El Paso | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 1976 | |||
Studio | Sugar Hill Studios, Houston, TX | |||
Genre | Country rock | |||
Length | 38:37 | |||
Label | Epic[1] | |||
Producer | ||||
Kinky Friedman chronology | ||||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [3] |
Robert Christgau | C[4] |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [5] |
MusicHound Folk: The Essential Album Guide | [1] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [6] |
Lasso from El Paso is an album by Kinky Friedman, released in 1976.[7][8] "Sold American" was recorded live while on tour with Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue.[5] It was Friedman's last album of original material for more than 40 years.[9]
Critical reception
AllMusic wrote that "of the many albums that grew out of Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue, this must be the strangest."[3] Reviewing a reissue of the album, Record Collector wrote: "Undoubtedly dated, but not lacking in the redeeming yuck factor, one can still enjoy the absurd 'Bananas And Cream' and 'Waitret, Please, Waitret' in mixed company."[10]
Track listing
All songs by Kinky Friedman except where noted.
Side One
- "Sold American" - 3:36
- "Twinkle" - 3:21
- "Ahab the Arab" (Ray Stevens) - 3:31
- "Dear Abbie" - 3:12
- "Kinky" (Ronnie Hawkins) - 2:57
- "Lady Yesterday" - 3:57
Side Two
- "Catfish" (Bob Dylan, Jacques Levy) - 3:01
- "Men's Room, L.A." (Buck Fowler) - 2:10
- "Bananas and Cream" - 2:41
- "Ol' Ben Lucas" - 1:39
- "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" (Peter LaFarge) - 5:10
- "Waitret, Please, Waitret" (Friedman, Major Boles, Roscoe West) - 2:25
Personnel
- Kinky Friedman - lead vocals
- Jim Atkinson, T-Bone Burnett, Eric Clapton, Tom Culpepper, Kinky Friedman, Bill Ham, Levon Helm, Mick Ronson, Steven Soles - guitar
- Eric Clapton - dobro on "Kinky" and "Ol' Ben Lucas"
- Ronnie Wood - guitar on "Kinky"
- Lowell George - guitar on "Catfish"
- Ringo Starr - voice of Jesus on "Men's Room, L.A."
- Brian Clark, Rick Danko, Terry Danko, Kenny Gradney, Rob Stoner, Ira Wikes - bass
- Dr. John, Jewford Shelby, Ken Lauber, Red Young, Richard Manuel, T-Bone Burnett - keyboards
- Al Garth, Fiddlin' Frenchie Burke - fiddle
- Michael De Temple - mandolin
- Ken "Snakebite" Jacobs - horns
- Major Bowles, Gary Burke, Teddy Jack Eddy (Gary Busey), Richie Hayward, Levon Helm, Richard Manuel, Terry Danko, Dahrell Norris, Howie Wyeth - drums
- Terry Danko, Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Ronnie Hawkins, Roscoe West, Teddy Jack Eddy (Gary Busey), Jim Atkinson, Tracey Balin - backing vocals
References
- 1 2 MusicHound Folk: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1998. p. 297.
- ↑ Verna, Paul (Apr 17, 1999). "Lasso From El Paso". Billboard. Vol. 111, no. 16. p. 15.
- 1 2 "Lasso from El Paso - Kinky Friedman | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
- ↑ "Robert Christgau: Album: Kinky Friedman: Lasso from El Paso". www.robertchristgau.com.
- 1 2 Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 3. MUZE. pp. 612–613.
- ↑ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 265.
- ↑ "Kinky Friedman | Biography & History". AllMusic.
- ↑ Teitelbaum, Sheldon (15 Oct 1989). "The Tale of a Kinky Cowboy Who Made Good". Los Angeles Times: E16.
- ↑ Friedman, Andy (13 September 2018). "The Summer of Kinky Friedman". The New Yorker.
- ↑ "Lasso From El Paso - Record Collector Magazine".
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