Topic: New Chords Postings
"The Free Electric Band" comes from Albert Hammond's 1973 album of the same name (pictured at right). The song was apparently a pretty big hit back in '73, reaching #48 in the US and #19 in the UK. But I've never heard it played on the radio myself, not back then or any time since, so I guess it didn't get airplay around here.
However, I discovered the tune due to its inclusion on a K-Tel record (also from 1973) I had called Fantastic. K-Tel records will always be part of music nostalgia for people of my generation. Remember the TV commercials? "A great new album from K-Tel!" Here's the TV spot for Fantastic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl8zT2T7yX0 K-Tel albums were full of Top 40 singles, most of which had been edited to ribbons to fit as many songs as possible on the disc. "The Free Electric Band" was no exception, having its third verse trimmed, so that the song went from the Bridge/Chorus directly to the Outro. But having discovered the song that way, I've liked it ever since.The chord chart:
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/crd/hammond-freeelectricband.txt
The audio track of this TV performance is the studio recording of the song:
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From the 1985 album Running Wild.
Drawn from the 1971 album Distant Light, the single "Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress)" actually had more success in other countries than it did in The Hollies' native UK. There the song topped out at #32 on the charts. In the US it reached #2, while it was a #1 chart-topping hit in both Canada and Australia. Tabbed here is the Intro.
This song is one part Newfoundland, one part Alberta, and one part Rudyard Kipling. Interesting mix. Taken from Big Sugar's 2001 CD Brothers & Sisters, Are You Ready?, the track is sung from the point of view of a down on his luck Newfoundlander, forced to leave his home (and loathe to do so) due to lack of employment, who is heading for the Alberta oil and natural gas fields where work is plentiful. "A Canadian story song" is how Big Sugar front man Gordie Johnson often introduces the tune in concert (including when I saw them at The Sound Of Music Festival in Burlington, Ontario back in June).
I've written here before about how much I like Jackson Hawke's debut album Forever (1976). (
There was no sophomore jinx for Sass Jordan. Her second album, Racine (1992), produced five singles and won her Billboard magazine's Best Female Rock Vocalist award for 1992. The last of the singles released from the album was "Who Do You Think You Are". Tabbed here is the guitar solo.