Re: American Gypsy

Edgard Beckand (E.beckand@student.kun.nl)
Sun, 16 Aug 1998 18:56:39 +0200


At 08:05 13-8-98 +0200, you wrote:
>I Picked up the American Gypsy album (BTM, 1975) a few years ago from the
>bargain bins. It has that great track "Inside Out" which starts off as a
>classical piece of music then moves on to a rock tune and then suddenly goes
>heavy into funk&soul with that big bassline and deep bariton voice. It still
>amazes people the first time they hear it. Don't know if it's worth anything
>though. To me.. a lot...
>
> I saw that the album was recorded in Holland. Do you know if this their
>only album?

As far as I know this is an album recorded for Chess. They also recorded an
album which featured the song 'You're O.K. I'm O.k' (released on Philps
1979). This is in the disco era so a totally different ballgame and by far
not as 'deep' as the songs I know from the album you mentioned.

Greetz Edgard