Gypsy Symphony

01/01/1974 | Collector's Choice 

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All Music Guide Review

Marrying Waldman's sound with the inestimable Muscle Shoals musicians, Gypsy Symphony is a funky, shimmering delight, and other artists weren't slow to notice. "My Love Is All I Know," "The Good Love" and "Mad Mad Me" were recorded by Melissa Manchester, Percy Sledge and Maria Muldaur, respectively. The latter, in particular, showcases Waldman as a more accessible, more accommodating Laura Nyro, and possibly a more deft pianist, too. Most compositions on the record flaunts unexpected chord progressions, adventurous time signatures, snappy horn charts and a maverick spirit that should have shone brightly among some of the bland embarrassments emerging from the West Coast scene at the time; a shame, then, that not many people noticed. ~ Charles Donovan, All Music Guide

Track Listing

  • Track#
  • Title
  • time
  • 1
  • My Love Is All I Know
  • 3:35

  • 2
  • You Got to Ride
  • 3:27

  • 3
  • The Good Love
  • 5:04

  • 4
  • My Name Is Love
  • 2:36

  • 5
  • Cold Back on Me
  • 5:03

  • 6
  • Studio Song
  • 2:28

  • 7
  • Baby Don't You Go
  • 2:17

  • 8
  • Northwoods Man
  • 4:25

  • 9
  • Come on Down
  • 4:04

  • 10
  • Mad Mad Me
  • 3:37

  • 11
  • The Road Song
  • 3:58

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    Credits

    • Pete Carr
    • Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar, Dobro, Guitar (Electric)
    • Andrew Gold
    • Guitar, Vocals (Background), Vocals, Piano, Guitar (Electric)
    • Wendy Waldman
    • Dulcimer, Vocals, Guitar (Acoustic), Piano, Liner Notes, String Arrangements, Horn Arrangements, Main Performer, Vocals (Background), Guitar
    • Barry Beckett
    • Organ, Synthesizer, Arp, Piano (Electric), Keyboards, Piano
    • Jim Horn
    • Clarinet, Saxophone, Wind, Piccolo, Flute
    • Don Menza
    • Flute, Saxophone, Sax (Soprano), Oboe, Horn, Horn (English)


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