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This is a record that might interest you if you’re into Derek and the Dominoes or Delaney and Bonnie. It fell through the cracks at the time and didn’t chart, It’s really good. Released in 1972, it’s a bit like the next album Derek and the Dominoes didn’t make. Clapton is on it on one track and Rick Vito handles the rest of the guitar. George Harrison is on it, along with Jim Gordon and Bobby Keys. Jimmy Miller and Andy Johns are producing, so you know it’s classy.
He was on dozens of records in these years, especially Delaney and Bonnie . He’s on All Things Must Pass too and Exile On Main Street and a Dr John album. I don’t know why it didn’t chart, as he was at the centre of a musical planet at the time and knew all the hip people. He was in demand as a keyboard session player.
The cover is even designed by John Kosh, who can’t have been cheap. He was the creative director of Apple Corps for The Beatles and was art director and album cover designer for Abbey Road and Let It Be, as well as Who’s Next for the Who. He did design work for Jon Lord, Kim Carnes, Bonnie Raitt, Rod Stewart, Donovan, Jimmy Buffett, Bob Dylan, the Eagles, The Moody Blues, Dan Fogelberg, Carole King, Randy Newman, Pointer Sisters, T.Rex, Richard Pryor, Ringo Starr, Linda Ronstadt, Electric Light Orchestra, Bob Seger, Spinal Tap, W.A.S.P. James Taylor, Marvin Gaye, and Ike and Tina Turner. Kosh has garnered seven Grammy nominations and won three for his work with Linda Ronstadt. He is the only Art Director to have worked with The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Who. So doing an album with Whitlock was serious kudos.
Anyway, this record opens with a version of Tell The Truth and is divided into a Raw and Velvet sides. I got my first copy of it in the late 70s, and sold it in the first collection sale but glad I got another and I heartily recommend it.
