''Glendale Train'' is an album by the
country rock band the
New Riders of the Purple Sage. It was recorded as a live radio broadcast on October 30, 1971 at the Taft Auditorium in
Cincinnati, Ohio
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. It was released on
CD and
vinyl
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on November 18, 2013.
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The New Riders' complete performance from the concert is included in the album. As was often the case during this period, they were the opening act for the Grateful Dead. Jerry Garcia was a member of both bands. He would play pedal steel guitar for NRPS, and then play electric guitar and sing for the Dead. A Grateful Dead album recorded the following night is '' Dick's Picks Volume 2''.
]
Critical reception
On AllMusic
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, Steve Leggett said, "... at this point, just after the release of the band's self-titled debut album earlier in the year, Garcia was a regular on pedal steel guitar. It was arguably the classic lineup for a band that was initially a spinoff project from the Dead, making this well-recorded live set a historical and archival delight."[
]
Track listing
;Side A
#Introduction by Sam Cutler
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Cutler is an Honours Graduate in Contemporary History (Open University) and a qualified tea ...
– 0:28
#" Workin' Man Blues" (Merle Haggard
Merle Ronald Haggard (April 6, 1937 – April 6, 2016) was an American country music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler.
Haggard was born in Oildale, California, toward the end of the Great Depression. His childhood was troubled a ...
) – 3:49
#"Superman" ( John Dawson) – 4:00
#" Down in the Boondocks" (Joe South
Joe South (born Joseph Alfred Souter; February 28, 1940 – September 5, 2012) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. Best known for his songwriting, South won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1970 for " Ga ...
) – 3:12
#"Cecilia" (Dawson) – 4:23
;Side B
#"Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (And Loud, Loud Music)
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" (Joe Maphis
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One of the flashiest co ...
, Max Fidler, Rose Lee Maphis) – 4:18
#"Dirty Business" (Dawson) – 10:41
#"Truck Drivin' Man
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In 1965, Owens recorded the song himself, omitting the fourth verse - "When I ...
" (Terry Fell
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Biography Childhood and adolescence
Fell was born in Dora, Alabama on May 13, 1921, and got his first guitar at the age of nine. Later, he learned mandolin and too ...
) – 3:07
;Side C
#"Lochinvar" (Dawson) – 4:51
#"Hello Mary Lou
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" ( Gene Pitney, Cayet Mangiaracina) – 2:58
#"The Weight
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" ( Robbie Robertson) – 7:27
#"Glendale Train" (Dawson) – 4:53
;Side D
#" Lodi" ( John Fogerty) – 4:05
#"Last Lonely Eagle" (Dawson) – 6:33
#"Louisiana Lady" (Dawson) – 3:57
#"Willie and the Hand Jive
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" ( Johnny Otis) – 6:28
Personnel
* John Dawson – acoustic guitar, vocals
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* David Nelson – electric guitar
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, vocals
*Dave Torbert
David Edwin Torbert (June 7, 1948 – December 7, 1982) was a Bay Area musician, best known for his associations with the Grateful Dead and the New Riders of the Purple Sage. He played bass for the latter group, replacing Phil Lesh during the ses ...
– bass, vocals
* Jerry Garcia – pedal steel guitar
*Spencer Dryden
Spencer Charles Dryden (April 7, 1938 – January 11, 2005) was an American musician best known as the drummer for Jefferson Airplane and New Riders of the Purple Sage. He also played with Dinosaurs, and the Ashes (later known as the Peanut B ...
– drums
References
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New Riders of the Purple Sage live albums
2013 albums