Steve Cropper's With a Little Help From My Friends on LP. Vinyl Cut From the Original Master Tapes by Jeff Powell at Take Out Vinyl/Sam Phillips Recording Services in Memphis, TN.
Guitar Legend! Songwriting Legend! Producer Legend! Blues Brother & Stax Legend! The 1969 solo debut from the Grammy®-winning Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee. Vinyl cut from the original master tapes by Jeff Powell at Take Out Vinyl/Sam Phillips Recording Services in Memphis, TN.
As a founding member of Stax house band Booker T. & The M.G.’s, Steve Cropper was involved in some of the most important music of the 1960s as a player, songwriter, and producer. The following decade introduced him to a new group of fans as guitarist for The Blues Brothers, appearing on both their records and film. A two-time Grammy® winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Cropper has been an integral thread in the cloth of American music, writing, playing and producing into the 21st century to this very day.
In 1969, Cropper released his first solo album, producing and arranging its eleven tracks himself. His backing band? While there is no actual record of who played on the album itself, Grammy® winner Robert Gordon’s liner notes point to his fellow M.G.’s, Buddy Miles, Jim Keltner, the Bar-Kay’s James Alexander, and more as candidates. From original tracks to its well-known covers (including The Beatles classic the release shares its name with), it is a tour de force of pure Memphis rock and soul.
The core eleven tracks now appear again on an all-analog cut, new pressing of the LP as With A Little Help From My Friends returns for a new generation to experience.
- Crop Dustin’
- Land Of 1000 Dances
- 99 1/2
- Boo-Ga-Loo Down Broadway
- Funky Broadway
- With A Little Help From My Friends
- Oh, Pretty Woman
- I’d Rather Drink Muddy Water
- The Way I Feel Tonight
- In The Midnight Hour
- Rattlesnake