''We the People'' is a 1973 album by

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. The album was re-released on CD in 1993 along with McIlwaine's 1972 debut album '' Honky Tonk Angel'' as '' Up From the Skies: The Polydor Years''.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Ellen McIlwaine except where noted.

Side A

#"Ain't No Two Ways About It (It's Love)" – 4:26 #"All to You" – 3:05 #"Sliding" – 2:52 #"Never Tell Your Mother She's Out of Tune" (

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) – 2:25 #" Farther Along" (Traditional) – 3:44

Side B

#"I Don't Want to Play" – 3:20 #"Underground River" – 3:54 #"Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven (But Nobody Wants To Die)" (Al Fields, Tom Delaney,

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) – 2:25 #"Jimmy Jean" – 2:59 #"We the People" – 3:23

Personnel

- vocals, guitar, piano *Don Payne - bass *Don Moore - bass (Side B, track 4) *Jimmy Madison - drums (Side A, track 2; Side B, tracks 1-3) *

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- drums (Side A, tracks 1, 4) *Colin Tilton - saxophone *

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- conga *West 44th Street Noise Choir - background vocals (Side B, track 1) *

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- background vocals on (Side A, track 5)

References

1973 albums Ellen McIlwaine albums Polydor Records albums {{blues-album-stub