Album
Bad Luck Is All I Have
1975 · Jazz
Rare pressing on Gatefold
Bad Luck Is All I Have is a Jazz album by Eddie Harris, originally released in 1975. On Gatefold: 13 pressings tracked.
About
Dank and rubbery, <i>Bad Luck Is All I Have</i> expounds upon Eddie Harris’ obsession with Sly Stone. Dark and gritty and skeletal, “Bad Luck Is All I Have” and “Get On Up And Dance” are indicative of the same subterranean paranoia that fueled Sly’s <i>Small Talk</i>, released one year prior. The sound design is extraordinary. This has to be one of the dirtiest, least polished albums Atlantic’s jazz wing ever agreed to release. It would have horrified Tom Dowd, the label’s faithful recording engineering, but in the best possible way. This is pure subterranean funk music, played by a genius whose grip on reality was becoming slightly wobbly. “Abstractions” and “It Feels So Good” are fractured and unruly, but they are also audacious and a lot of fun. The reward at the end of this thorny journey is “Why Must We Part,” an eerie celestial blues that Eddie sings in a desperate, loving falsetto. Even as it symbolizes a cracked mental state, it is probably the best vocal of his career.
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Tracklist
- 1Get On Up and Dance (LP Version)3:34
- 2Bad Luck Is All I Have (LP Version)8:40
- 3It Feels So Good (LP Version)10:28
- 4Why Must We Part (LP Version)5:26
- 5Obnoxious (LP Version)5:51
- 6Abstractions (LP Version)10:24
Sound DNA
- Jazz
- Jazz Fusion
- raw
- funky
- urban
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Bradley Bobo6-STRING BASS 6-STRING BASS, VOCALS ELECTRIC BASS
- Calvin BarnesPERCUSSION PERCUSSION, CONGAS, VOCALS, PERCUSSION PERCUSSION, PERCUSSION , CONGAS, VOCALS
- Delbert HillBARITONE SAXOPHONE ENGLISH HORN, TENOR SAXOPHONE
- Derf ReklawCONGAS
- Eddie HarrisELECTRIC PIANO, SAXOPHONE , VOCALS ELECTRIC PIANO, SAXOPHONE , SAXOPHONE , EFFECTS , VOCALS ELECTRIC PIANO, SAXOPHONE , SAXOPHONE , SAXOPHONE , VOCALS
- Louise AnglinBACKING VOCALS
- Mary HaynesBACKING VOCALS
- Oscar BrashearTRUMPET
- Ronald MuldrowELECTRIC GUITAR ELECTRIC GUITAR , VOCALS GUITAR
- Rufus ReidBASS
- Stephana LoebBACKING VOCALS
- The Gerald Lee SingersBACKING VOCALS
- Willie BoboDRUMS PERCUSSION PERCUSSION, CONGAS, TIMBALES
Rare pressing on Gatefold · 13 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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