''Dog Days'' is an

album An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78 rpm records co ...

by the

Southern rock Southern rock is a subgenre of rock music and a genre of Americana. It developed in the Southern United States from rock and roll, country music, and blues and is focused generally on electric guitars and vocals. Author Scott B. Bomar specula ...

band

Atlanta Rhythm Section Atlanta Rhythm Section (or ARS) is an American Southern rock band formed in 1970 by Rodney Justo (singer), Barry Bailey (guitar), Paul Goddard (bass), Dean Daughtry (keyboards), Robert Nix (drums) and J. R. Cobb (guitar). The band's current l ...

, released in 1975. The title single reached #49 on the Canadian pop charts and #43 on the AC charts.

Track listing

#"Crazy" (Buie, Nix, Daughtry) – 3:07 #"Boogie Smoogie" (Buie, Nix, Bailey) – 7:57 #"Cuban Crisis" (Buie, Nix, Cobb) – 3:50 #"It Just Ain't Your Moon" (Buie, Nix, Daughtry) – 4:50 #"Dog Days" (Buie, Nix, Daughtry) – 3:35 #"Bless My Soul" (Cobb) – 4:00 #"Silent Treatment" (Buie, Nix, Bailey) – 5:15 #"All Night Rain" (Buie, Nix, Daughtry, Bob McRee) – 3:10

Personnel

*Barry Bailey -

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

Buddy Buie Perry Carlton "Buddy" Buie (January 23, 1941 – July 18, 2015) was an American songwriter, producer and publisher. He is most commonly associated with Roy Orbison, the Classics IV and the Atlanta Rhythm Section. Career Buie was born in Marian ...

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

* J.R. Cobb - guitar, background vocals *

Dean Daughtry Dean Daughtry (born September 8, 1946, in Kinston, Alabama) is an American musician. He was the keyboard player with the Classics IV after Joe Wilson departed. They had a 1968 #3 US/#46 UK hit with "Spooky". He co-founded the Atlanta Rhythm Se ...

- keyboards *Paul Goddard -

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

*Ronnie Hammond - vocals, background vocals * Robert Nix -

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Ex ...

, drums, background vocals

Production

*Producer: Buddy Buie *Engineer: Rodney Mills

Charts

References

Atlanta Rhythm Section albums 1975 albums Albums produced by Buddy Buie Polydor Records albums {{1970s-rock-album-stub