Skin Alley – Skintight 1973 (UK, Progressive Rock)
Stax Records producer Don Nix recorded Skintight's fourth album in Memphis, after which the band broke up. Of all the band members, Nick Graham was the most active after the breakup: in the early 1980s, he was a member of the bands Alibi and The Humans.After a live gig and a TV show in Memphis, we were introduced to Don Nix who had just been doing work at Muscle Shoals and with the Joe Cocker entourage. He was keen to produce our next album and agreed to come to England to do this. Hence the misinformation that we were an anglo-american band, no we were not, if anything, we were an anglo-polish band!
The resultant album was "Skin Tight" which was recorded at Chipping Norton and was done in a direct almost live-recording style, at that time unusual in England. Musically it was close to the work of many of the American bands we admired and certainly a hemisphere away from our first albumalbum.
After the release of this album we were forced to face the reality that there would be no money coming from our record deal and the live gig scene was going the David Bowie, Mott the Hoople and Marmalade way, so, reluctantly, we disbanded.
by Krzysztof Juszkiewicz
Tracks:
01. If I Only Had The Time — 0:00
02. At A Quarter To One — 3:51
03. How Long — 6:48
04. Surprise Awakening — 10:19
05. Broken Eggs — 14:40
06. The Heap Turns Human — 18:53
07. Maverick Woman Blues — 22:51
08. What Good Does It Do? — 26:44
09. Mr. Heavy - 31:47
10. Instrumental - 35:16
Personnel:
Bob James – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, slide guitar, alto saxophone, flute, vocals
Krzysztof Henryk Juskiewicz – Hammond organ, piano, electric piano, accordion
Nick Graham - bass, piano, electric piano, synthesizer, flute, harmonica, vocals
Tony Knight - drums, percussion, backing vocals
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Dave Coxhill - baritone saxophone (05, 08)
The Lounge Lizards - brass (05, 08)
Geoff Driscoll - tenor saxophone (05, 08)
Phil Kenzie - tenor saxophone (05, 08)
Bud Parkes - trumpet, flugelhorn (05, 08)
Martin Drover - trumpet, flugelhorn (05, 08)
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