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Sunfighter

 
Album Review: Sunfighter

  • Artist: Paul Kantner
  • Rating: StarStarHalf Star
  • Release Date: 1971
  • Total Time: 41:36
  • Genre: Rock

Review

This is something of a family album, co-credited to Paul Kantner and his wife, Grace Slick, and featuring on its cover a photograph of their infant daughter, China. It also features the family of San Francisco Bay Area musicians, including David Crosby, Graham Nash, Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead, and other current members of Jefferson Airplane and future members of Jefferson Starship. Its style of loosely arranged acid rock music and radical left political lyrics is similar to such recent albums as the Kantner/Starship Blows Against the Empire (December 1970) and the Airplane's Bark (August 1971), which were made by most of the same players. But Kantner and Slick's usual stridency is not counterbalanced by substance as much as on earlier efforts, perhaps because they were making too many albums too quickly to keep up the quality of their songwriting. Still, anyone who enjoys the sweet-and-sour unison singing of X's John Doe and Exene Cervenka should listen to Sunfighter to see where they got it from. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track TitleComposersPerformersTime
Silver Spoon Grace Slick Grace Slick, Paul Kantner (5:41)
Diana, Pt. 1 Grace Slick, Paul Kantner Grace Slick, Paul Kantner (:52)
Sunfighter Paul Kantner Grace Slick, Paul Kantner (3:54)
Titanic Grace Slick, Paul Kantner (2:30)
Look at the Wood Grace Slick, Paul Kantner Grace Slick, Paul Kantner (2:10)
When I Was a Boy I Watched the Wolves Grace Slick, Paul Kantner Grace Slick, Paul Kantner (5:00)
Million Paul Kantner Grace Slick, Paul Kantner (4:04)
China Grace Slick Grace Slick, Paul Kantner (3:18)
Earth Mother Jack Traylor & Steelwind Grace Slick, Paul Kantner (3:19)
Diana, Pt. 2 Grace Slick, Paul Kantner Grace Slick, Paul Kantner (1:02)
Universal Copernican Mumbles Paul Kantner, John Vierra Grace Slick, Paul Kantner (2:04)
Holding Together Grace Slick, Paul Kantner Grace Slick, Paul Kantner (7:42)

Credits

Jerry Garcia (Banjo), Jerry Garcia (Guitar), Jorma Kaukonen (Guitar), Graham Nash (Percussion), Graham Nash (Vocals), Grace Slick (Keyboards), Grace Slick (Vocals), Grace Slick (Producer), Grace Slick (Performer), Joey Covington (Percussion), Joey Covington (Drums), Papa John Creach (Violin), Paul Kantner (Guitar), Paul Kantner (Vocals), Paul Kantner (Producer), Paul Kantner (Main Performer), Peter Kaukonen (Guitar), Jack Casady (Bass), David Crosby (Guitar), David Crosby (Vocals), Spencer Dryden (Drums), Edwin Hawkins (Vocals), Mic Gillette (Trombone), Patrick Gleeson (Synthesizer), Patrick Gleeson (Keyboards), Bill Laudner (Vocals), Phil Sawyer (?), Steven Schuster (Saxophone), Shelley Silverman (Drums), John Vierra (Keyboards), Pat Ieraci (Engineer), Paul Williams (Reissue Supervisor), Greg Adams (Trumpet), Acy Lehman (Illustrations), Jeff Tamarkin (Liner Notes)
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