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  • Artist: Procol Harum
  • Rating: StarStarStarStarHalf Star
  • Release Date: 1969 03
  • Total Time: 40:18
  • Genre: Rock

Review

This album, the group's third, was where they showed just how far their talents extended across the musical landscape, from blues to R&B to classical rock. In contrast to their hastily recorded debut, or its successor, done to stretch their performance and composition range, A Salty Dog was recorded in a reasonable amount of time, giving the band a chance to fully develop their ideas. The title track is one of the finest songs ever to come from Procol Harum and one of the best pieces of progressive rock ever heard, and a very succinct example at that at under five minutes running time -- the lyric and the music combine to form a perfect mood piece, and the performance is bold and subtle at once, in the playing and the singing, respectively. The range of sounds on the rest includes "Juicy John Pink," a superb piece of pre-World War II-style country blues, while "Crucifiction Lane" is a killer Otis Redding-style soul piece, and "Pilgrim's Progress" is a virtuoso keyboard workout. [A Salty Dog was reissued by Repertoire Records in 1997 with enhanced sound and the lost B-side "Long Gone Geek," a Robin Trower guitar workout par excellence.] ~ Bruce Eder, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track TitleComposersPerformersTime
A Salty Dog Gary Brooker, Keith Reid Procol Harum (4:41)
The Milk of Human Kindness Gary Brooker, Keith Reid Procol Harum (3:47)
Too Much Between Us Robin Trower, Gary Brooker, Keith Reid Procol Harum (3:45)
The Devil Came from Kansas Gary Brooker, Keith Reid Procol Harum (4:38)
Boredom Gary Brooker, Matthew Fisher, Keith Reid Procol Harum (4:34)
Juicy John Pink [Mono Version] Robin Trower, Keith Reid Procol Harum (2:08)
Wreck of the Hesperus Matthew Fisher, Keith Reid Procol Harum (3:49)
All This and More Gary Brooker, Keith Reid Procol Harum (3:52)
Crucifiction Lane Robin Trower, Keith Reid Procol Harum (5:03)
Pilgrims Progress Matthew Fisher, Keith Reid Procol Harum (4:32)

Credits

Procol Harum (Main Performer), Robin Trower (Guitar (Acoustic)), Robin Trower (Guitar), Robin Trower (Tambourine), Robin Trower (Vocals), Gary Brooker (Guitar), Gary Brooker (Harmonica), Gary Brooker (Piano), Gary Brooker (Arranger), Gary Brooker (Celeste), Gary Brooker (Cello), Gary Brooker (Keyboards), Gary Brooker (Recorder), Gary Brooker (Vocals), Gary Brooker (Wind), Gary Brooker (Bells), Gary Brooker (Woodwind), Gary Brooker (Orchestral Arrangements), Gary Brooker (Guitar (3 String)), Matthew Fisher (Organ), Matthew Fisher (Guitar (Acoustic)), Matthew Fisher (Guitar), Matthew Fisher (Piano), Matthew Fisher (Arranger), Matthew Fisher (Guitar (Rhythm)), Matthew Fisher (Keyboards), Matthew Fisher (Marimba), Matthew Fisher (Recorder), Matthew Fisher (Vocals), Matthew Fisher (Producer), Matthew Fisher (Orchestral Arrangements), Ken Scott (Engineer), David Knights (Bass), David Knights (Guitar (Bass)), Henry Lewy (Engineer), Keith Reid (?), B.J. Wilson (Drums), Barrie Wilson (Conga), Barrie Wilson (Drums), Barrie Wilson (Tabla), Ian Stuartr (Engineer), Dickinson (Artwork), Dickinson (Design), Kellogs (Whistle (Instrument)), Chris Welch (Liner Notes)
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A Salty Dog
Studio album by Procol Harum
Released June 1969
Recorded March 1969
Genre Progressive rock
Length 40:18
Label Regal Zonophone (UK); A&M (US)
Producer Matthew Fisher
Professional reviews
Procol Harum chronology
Shine on Brightly
(1968)		 A Salty Dog
(1969)		 Home
(1970)

A Salty Dog is an album by the Rock band Procol Harum, released in June 1969. Having an ostensibly nautical theme, as indicated by its cover, (a pastiche of the famous Player's Navy Cut cigarette pack) interspersed with straight rock, blues and pop items A Salty Dog showed a slight change of direction from its predecessors, being thematically less obscure. The title track itself was the first Procol track to use sound effects and an orchestra, as would be referred to in the live album performance some three years later. The musical tensions between the group and Robin Trower were beginning to show in this album, and although his guitar sound remains integral to most of the tracks, Crucifiction Lane (featuring a rare Trower vocal), in retrospect, shows that Trower was already moving in a different direction from the rest of the band.
The title track, backed with "Long Gone Geek", reached number 44 in the UK singles chart in 1969 and the album itself number 27 in the album chart.[1] When Gary Brooker first played Salty Dog at the piano for B.J. Wilson a sunbeam illumined Wilson's face and he told Brooker he thought it was the most beautiful song he had ever heard.[1]

The album was the first record produced by Matthew Fisher, who quit the band soon after its release.

The song "Salty Dog" was featured in the 1983 film Purple Haze.

This song was covered by Transatlantic, on the Disc 2 Special Edition of The Whirlwind. It is sung by drummer Mike Portnoy.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "A Salty Dog" – 4:41 (Gary Brooker/Keith Reid)
  2. "The Milk of Human Kindness" – 3:47 (Gary Brooker/Keith Reid)
  3. "Too Much Between Us" – 3:45 (Gary Brooker/Robin Trower/Keith Reid)
  4. "The Devil Came From Kansas" – 4:38 (Gary Brooker/Keith Reid)
  5. "Boredom" – 4:34 (Gary Brooker/Matthew Fisher/Keith Reid)
  6. "Juicy John Pink" – 2:08 (Robin Trower/Keith Reid)
  7. "Wreck of the Hesperus" – 3:49 (Matthew Fisher/Keith Reid)
  8. "All This and More" – 3:52 (Gary Brooker/Keith Reid)
  9. "Crucifiction Lane" – 5:03 (Robin Trower/Keith Reid)
  10. "Pilgrim's Progress" – 4:32 (Matthew Fisher/Keith Reid)

The following bonus tracks were included on a 1999 reissue by Westside (cat# WESM 534):

  1. "Long Gone Geek" – B-Side of the single release of "A Salty Dog"[2]
  2. "All This And More"
  3. "The Milk Of Human Kindness" (instrumental version)
  4. "Pilgrim's Progress" (instrumental version)
  5. "McGreggor" – previously unreleased track, originally intended for "Shine On Brightly"[3]
  6. "Still There'll Be More"

The 2009 released CD (SALVOCD020) version has different bonus tracks ;

  1. "Long Gone Geek" (Reid/Brooker/Fisher)
  2. "Goin' Down Slow" (James B. Oden) (live in the USA, April 1969)
  3. "Juicy John Pink" (Trower/Reid) (live in the USA, April 1969)
  4. "Crucification Lane" (Trower/Reid)(live in the USA, April 1969)
  5. "Skip Softly (My Moonbeams) / Also Sprach Zarathustra" (Brooker/Reid)/(Richard Strauss)(live in the USA, April 1969)
  6. "The Milk of Human Kindness" (Brooker/Reid)(take 1; raw track)

Musicians and Production

  • Gary Brooker : vocals, piano, celeste, three stringed guitar, bells, harmonica, recorder, wood
  • Robin Trower : lead guitar, vocals (09), acoustic guitar, sleigh tambourine
  • Dave Knights : bass guitar
  • Barrie Wilson : drums, conga drums, tabla
  • Matthew Fisher : organ, vocals (05,07,10), marimba, acoustic guitar, piano, recorder, rhythm guitar
  • Kellogs : bosun's whistle, refreshments
  • Keith Reid : words
  • Orchestral arrangements : Gary Brooker (01,08), Matthew Fisher (07)
  • Produced by Matthew Fisher
  • Engineered by Ken Scott (01-05, 08-10), Ian Stuart (06) and Henry Lewy (07)

References

  1. ^ UK Chart Stats
  2. ^ This was listed as an album main track on the re-release despite not having appeared on the original album
  3. ^ A story of a soldier who was hanged for shooting a senior officer; provenance of this story is unknown Procol Harum site

External links

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Dave Ball · Graham Broad · Dave Bronze · Mark Brzezicki · Alan Cartwright · Chris Copping · Matthew Fisher · Mick Grabham · Bobby Harrison · David Knights · Dee Murray · Tim Renwick · Ray Royer · Don Snow · Pete Solley · Henry Spinetti · Jerry Stevenson · Robin Trower · Ian Wallace · B.J. Wilson
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