''A Gigster's Life for Me'' is the second album recorded by
Alan Price
Alan Price (born 19 April 1942) is an English musician. He was the original keyboardist for the British band the Animals before he left to form his own band the Alan Price Set. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 as a m ...
and The Electric Blues Company, following ''Covers'' (1994). It was recorded between July and August 1995 at
Olympic Studios
Olympic Studios was a renowned British independent commercial recording studio based in Barnes, London. It is best known for its recordings of many artists throughout the late 1960s to the first decade of the 21st century, including Jimi Hendr ...
London
and released as part of
Sanctuary Records' ''Blues Masters Series'' in 1996.
Track listing
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Boom Boom Boom Boom
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John Lee Hooker
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) – 4:47
#"
Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu" (
Huey "Piano" Smith, John Vincent) – 3:32
#"Rollin' Like a Pebble in the Sand" (
Rudy Toombs) – 3:10
#"
I Put a Spell on You" (
Screamin' Jay Hawkins
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) – 3:02
#"Good Times/Bad Woman" (
Peter Bardens,
Bobby Tench) – 4:03
#"
Some Change
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Critical reception
''Entertainment Weekly'' deemed the album "a competent snooze for closet New Age fans."
AllMusic's retrospective review called ''Some Change'' ...
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Boz Scaggs
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) – 5:32
#"Enough Is Enough" (Zoot Money) – 3:05
#"Whatcha Gonna Do?" (
Peter Green} – 4:44
#"A Gigster's Life for Me" (Alan Price, Tench) – 4:37
#"(I Got) Business With the Blues" (Mitchell, Money) – 4:08
#"How You've Changed" (Price) – 5:16
#"Old Love" (
Eric Clapton
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,
Robert Cray) – 7:16
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What Am I Living For?" (Art Harris, Fred Jay) – 5:19
#"Say It Isn't True" (
Jackson Browne
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Emerging as a precocious teenage songwriter in mid-1960s Los Angeles, he h ...
) – 11:05
Personnel
Alan Price and The Electric Blues Company
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Alan Price
Alan Price (born 19 April 1942) is an English musician. He was the original keyboardist for the British band the Animals before he left to form his own band the Alan Price Set. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 as a m ...
– keyboards, vocals
*
Bobby Tench – lead guitar, vocals
*
Zoot Money – keyboards, vocals
* Pete Grant – bass
* Martin Wilde – drums
Technical
* Alan Price and The Electric Blues Company –
producers
* Adam Brown, Lorraine Francis, Pete Lewis, Steve "Barney" Chase –
engineers
* Mark Warner – assistant engineer
Re-issues
*
Sanctuary 81285 (2003)
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Castle
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36115 (2005)
Notes
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1996 albums
Alan Price albums
Albums recorded at Olympic Sound Studios
Sanctuary Records albums