''Muscle Shoals Nitty Gritty'' is a 1970 album by jazz flutist

Herbie Mann Herbert Jay Solomon (April 16, 1930 – July 1, 2003), known by his stage name Herbie Mann, was an American jazz flute player and important early practitioner of world music. Early in his career, he also played tenor saxophone and clarinet (incl ...

. It was released on Mann's Embryo Records label, and distributed by

Cotillion Records Cotillion Records was a subsidiary of Atlantic Records (from 1971 part of WEA) and was active from 1968 through 1985. The label was formed as an outlet for pop, R&B, and jazz. Its first single, Otis Clay's version of "She's About a Mover", rea ...

, a division of

Atlantic Records Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson. Over its first 20 years of operation, Atlantic earned a reputation as one of the most i ...

Track listing

Side One #"Muscle Shoals Nitty Gritty" (Mann) (6:47) #"Claudia Pie" (Mann) (4:38) #"Can You Dig It" ( Ed Birdsong) (5:51) Side Two #"Blind Willy" (

Sonny Sharrock Warren Harding "Sonny" Sharrock (August 27, 1940 – May 25, 1994) was an American jazz guitarist. He was married to singer Linda Sharrock, with whom he recorded and performed. One of only a few prominent guitarists who participated in the firs ...

) (4:47) #"

Come Together "Come Together" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney. The song is the opening track on their 1969 album ''Abbey Road'' and was also released as a single coupled with " Somethi ...

" ( John Lennon, Paul McCartney) (10:00) #"Panama Red's Panama Hat" (Mann) (5:11)

Personnel

"Come Together"

*Herbie Mann - flute *

Roy Ayers Roy Ayers (born September 10, 1940) is an American funk, soul, and jazz composer, vibraphone player, and music producer. Ayers began his career as a post-bop jazz artist, releasing several albums with Atlantic Records, before his tenure at Pol ...

- vibes *

Eddie Hinton Eddie Hinton (15 June 1944 – 28 July 1995) was an American songwriter and session musician, best known for his work with soul music and R&B singers. He played lead guitar for Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section from 1969 to 1971 and after leaving th ...

- guitar *

Barry Beckett Barry Edward Beckett (February 4, 1943 – June 10, 2009) was an American keyboardist, session musician, record producer, and studio founder. He is best known for his work with David Hood, Jimmy Johnson, and Roger Hawkins, his bandmates in th ...

- piano * David Hood &

Miroslav Vitouš Miroslav Ladislav Vitouš (born 6 December 1947) is a Czech jazz bassist. Biography Born in Prague, Vitouš began the violin at age six, switching to piano after about three years, and then to bass at age fourteen. As a young man in Europe, ...

- bass * Roger Hawkins &

Bruno Carr Edward "Bruno" Carr (February 9, 1928 – October 25, 1993) was an American jazz drummer. Carr was a frequent collaborator with Ray Charles, and he recorded with Aretha Franklin. He was Herbie Mann's drummer from 1965 through 1969. Carr died o ...

- drums

"Panama Red's Panama Hat”

*As above, with Eddie Hinton - bottleneck guitar, Jimmy Johnson (also engineer) added on guitar

Other selections

*Herbie Mann - flute *Richard Waters - drums * Andrew Love & Ed Logan - tenor saxophone *James Mitchell - baritone saxophone * Wayne Jackson - trumpet *Roy Ayers - vibes *Eddie Hinton - guitar *Barry Beckett - piano *David Hood - bass *Roger Hawkins - drums

"Can You Dig It"

*As above, with Jimmy Johnson - guitar

"Blind Willy"

*As above, with Roger Hawkins on Jews harp, replaced by Bruno Carr on drums *Album photography -

Joel Brodsky Joel Lee Brodsky (October 7, 1939 – March 1, 2007) was an American photographer, best known for his photography of musicians, particularly his iconic "Young Lion" photographs of Jim Morrison. In his lifetime, he is credited with photographing o ...

*Album design - Haig Adishian

Production

*Recorded at

Muscle Shoals Sound Studio Muscle Shoals Sound Studio is an American recording studio in Sheffield, Alabama, formed in 1969 by four session musicians known as The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section. They had left nearby FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals to create their own recor ...

Muscle Shoals, Alabama Muscle Shoals is the largest city in Colbert County, Alabama, Colbert County, Alabama, United States. It is located along the Tennessee River in the northern part of the state and, as of the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census, the populati ...

* Jimmy Johnson & Marlin Green - Recording engineers *

Tom Dowd Thomas John Dowd (October 20, 1925 – October 27, 2002) was an American recording engineer and producer for Atlantic Records. He was credited with innovating the multitrack recording method. Dowd worked on a veritable "who's who" of recordings ...

- Producer

Charting

The album peaked at #9 on the Billboard Jazz Album chart.

References

*''Muscle Shoals Nitty Gritty'', Herbie Mann. Embryo Records SD 526 (1970) (liner notes)

External links

''Muscle Shoals Nitty Gritty'' at Allmusic.com
{{Authority control Herbie Mann albums Crossover jazz albums 1970 albums Albums with cover art by Joel Brodsky Albums produced by Tom Dowd Albums recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio Embryo Records albums