''Raw Velvet'' is the second solo album by American

songwriter A songwriter is a musician who professionally composes musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. The writer of the music for a song can be called a composer, although this term tends to be used mainly in the classical music ...

and musician

Bobby Whitlock Robert Stanley Whitlock (born March 18, 1948) is an American singer, songwriter and musician. He is best known as a member of the blues-rock band Derek and the Dominos, with Eric Clapton, in 1970–71. Whitlock's musical career began with Memp ...

, released in 1972. The appearance of Eric Clapton,

Carl Radle Carl Dean Radle (June 18, 1942 – May 30, 1980) was an American bassist who toured and recorded with many of the most influential recording artists of the late 1960s and 1970s. He was posthumously inducted to the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame i ...

and Jim Gordon of

Derek and the Dominos Derek and the Dominos was an English–American blues rock band formed in the spring of 1970 by guitarist and singer Eric Clapton, keyboardist and singer Bobby Whitlock, bassist Carl Radle and drummer Jim Gordon. All four members had previous ...

was only indicated by the representation of 'dominoes' on the original inner sleeve.

Track listing

All songs written by Bobby Whitlock, except where noted

Side one - Raw

#"Tell the Truth" ( Eric Clapton, Bobby Whitlock) - 3:50 #"Bustin' My Ass" - 3:35 #"Write You a Letter" - 2:28 #"Ease Your Pain" ( Hoyt Axton) - 3:04 #"If You Ever" - 3:19 #"Hello L.A., Bye Bye Birmingham" ( Delaney Bramlett, Mac Davis) - 3:52 produced by

Andy Johns Jeremy Andrew "Andy" Johns (20 May 1950 – 7 April 2013) was a British sound engineer and record producer who worked on several well-known rock albums, including the Rolling Stones' '' Exile on Main St.'' (1972), Television's '' Marquee Moon'' ...

and Bobby Whitlock

Side two - Velvet

#"You Came Along" - 3:04 #"Think About It" - 3:09 #"Satisfied" - 3:00 #"Dearest I Wonder" (Bobby Whitlock, Paula Boyd) - 3:50 #"Start All Over" - 3:25

Personnel

*Bobby Whitlock - rhythm

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 ...

, keyboards,

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 ...

* Eric Clapton -

(uncredited on "Hello L.A., Bye Bye Birmingham"), bass ("Hello L.A., Bye Bye Birmingham") * Keith Ellis - bass *

Rick Vito Richard Francis (Rick) Vito (born October 13, 1949, in Darby, Pennsylvania, United States) is an American guitarist and singer. He was part of Fleetwood Mac between 1987 and 1991. Vito took over as lead guitarist after Lindsey Buckingham left t ...

- lead

*Don Poncher - drums * Jim Gordon - drums on "Hello L.A., Bye Bye Birmingham" * George Harrison -

* Jim Price -

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

Bobby Keys Robert Henry Keys (December 18, 1943 – December 2, 2014) was an American saxophonist who performed with other musicians as a member of several horn sections of the 1970s. He appears on albums by the Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Harry Ni ...

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of Single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed (mouthpi ...

;Technical *Anthony Fawcett - London coordinator *

John Kosh John Kosh, known simply as Kosh, is an English art director, album cover designer, graphic artist, and documentary producer/director. He was born in London, England and rose to prominence in the mid-1960s while designing for the Royal Ballet a ...

- design concept *Ruby Mazur - design *Peter Howe - photography

References

1972 albums Albums produced by Jimmy Miller {{1970s-rock-album-stub