Rock Archeologia

The Coon Elder Band - Featuring Brenda Patterson (Mercury, 1977 LP) 

Artist: Coon Elder Band feat. Brenda Patterson
Album: Selftitled
Label: Mercury Records
Catalog#: SRM-1-1140
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1977
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country, Bluegrass
Format: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Bitrate: lossless
Duration: 00:32:10

• Bandleader Coon Elder was a regionally popular figure in from Memphis, mixing swampy white soul with country twang and chunkier Southern rock... This was his only album, and was also a showcase for singer Brenda Patterson, who had previously recorded three albums as a solo artist -- her throaty, bluesy style draws this album into Tracy Nelson/Maria Muldaur territory, while Elder's roadhouse rock'n'soul has a slight Delbert McClinton-esque feel to it, a Southern bar-band, but with some Muscle Shoals soul coming out in the horn section... I suspects that working with an old-time mainstream Nashville producer like Jim Ed Norman is partly what gives this album its mellow feel, though there are still some gritty lyrics and a distinctly rootsy undercurrent. For country fans, highlights include "Send Him Home To Mama," the bluesy "Grinnin' My Blues Away," and their version of "I Ain't A Cowboy (I Just Found The Hat),"one of the great satires of the '70s urban cowboy scene. An eclectic album, and a nice picture of the shifting boundaries where longhair country met Southern rock. Although Elder never made another album, he kept playing locally around Memphis, sadly dying in a 2011 traffic accident.

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 • Side 1:
A1. Love Being Your Fool 03:20
A2. I Ain't No Cowboy (I Just Found The Hat) 02:53
A3. Minutes To Hours 04:29
A4. Later On 03:06
A5. Basic Lady 02:21
 • Side 2:
B1. What Does It Take (To Win Your Love) 02:51
B2. Keep On Runnin' 03:49
B3. Send Him Home To Mama 03:16
B4. Train Gone Forever 02:43
B5. Grinnin' My Blues Away 03:51

     Produced by Jim Ed Norman

Members:
Rocky Beretta - Bass Guitar
Philip Black - Fiddle, Guitar, Back Vocals
Coon Elder - Guitar, Vocals, Back Vocals
Mark Sallings - Clarinet, Harmonica, Alto, Soprano & Tenor Sax, Back Vocals
Bill Marshall - Drums, Percussion, Back Vocals
Brenda Patterson - Vocals


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