''Magic in Your Eyes'' is the fourth studio album by

Earl Klugh Earl Klugh ( ; born September 16, 1953) is an American acoustic guitarist and composer. He has won one Grammy award and thirteen nominations. Klugh was awarded the “1977” Best Recording Award For Performance and Sound” for his album “Fin ...

released in 1978.

Chet Atkins Chester Burton Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001), known as "Mr. Guitar" and "The Country Gentleman", was an American musician who, along with Owen Bradley and Bob Ferguson, helped create the Nashville sound, the country music ...

, whom Klugh considers to be one of his main influences, is featured on the song "Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues".

Track listing

# "Magic in Your Eyes" (Earl Klugh) – 4:55 # "Alicia" (Klugh) – 4:31 # "Julie" (Klugh) – 4:32 # "Lode Star" (

Greg Phillinganes Gregory Arthur Phillinganes (born May 12, 1956) is an American keyboardist, singer-songwriter, and musical director based in Los Angeles, California. A prolific session musician, Phillinganes has contributed the role of keyboards to numerous alb ...

) – 4:47 # " Cast Your Fate to the Wind" (

Vince Guaraldi Vincent Anthony Guaraldi (; né Dellaglio, July 17, 1928 – February 6, 1976) was an American jazz pianist best known for composing music for animated television adaptations of the ''Peanuts'' comic strip. His compositions for this series includ ...

) – 4:40 # "Rose Hips" (Klugh) – 2:46 # "

Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues "Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues" is a song written and performed by Danny O'Keefe. It was first recorded by O'Keefe in 1967, but not released. It was recorded by The Bards and released in 1968 as the b-side to the song "Tunesmith" on Parrot Re ...

" (

Danny O'Keefe Danny O'Keefe (born May 20, 1943) is an American folk singer and songwriter. Career In 1968, O'Keefe was a member of a four-man heavy psychedelic rock band named Calliope. The group recorded one album, ''Steamed'', for Buddah Records before di ...

) – 4:29 # "Mayaguez" (Klugh) – 3:37 # "Cry a Little While" (Klugh) – 3:23

Personnel

Musicians

*Earl Klugh – acoustic guitar *

– acoustic guitar, track 7 *

Lloyd Green Lloyd Lamar Green (born October 4, 1937) is an American steel guitarist noted for his extensive country music recording session career in Nashville performing on 116 No.1 country hits including Tammy Wynette's “D-I-V-O-R-C-E” (1968), Charlie ...

– steel guitar, tracks 3, 7, 9 *Scott Edwards – bass, tracks 1, 2, 4-6, 8 *Hubie Crawford – bass, tracks 3, 7, 9 *Gene Dunlap – drums,

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* Paulinho da Costa –

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, track 5 *Darryl Dybka – Rhodes piano, track 3 *

– Rhodes piano,

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

, synthesizer, tracks 1-2, 4-8 *

Booker T. Jones Booker Taliaferro Jones Jr. (born November 12, 1944) is an American musician, songwriter, record producer and arranger, best known as the frontman of the band Booker T. & the M.G.'s. He has also worked in the studios with many well-known art ...

– string arrangements, tracks 1, 3, 5, 7, 9

Technical

*Booker T. Jones – producer *Jim Nipar –

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(Sound Factory) tracks 1-6, 8 *Serge Reyes – assistant engineer (Sound Factory) tracks 1-6, 8 *Bill Vandervort – engineer (Music City Music Hall, C.A. Workshop) tracks 7,9

Charts

References

1978 albums Earl Klugh albums Albums produced by Booker T. Jones Blue Note Records albums {{1970s-jazz-album-stub