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Fire Up (CD)

By: Merl Saunders & Friends (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Fire Up (CD) Album By Merl Saunders & Friends (Artis...
1   My Problems Got Problems
2   Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, The
3   Save Mother Earth
4   Imagine
5   Welcome To The Basement
6   Man-Child
7   After Midnight
8   Expressway (To Your Heart)
9   Soul Roach
10   Benedict Rides
11   System, The
12   Lonely Avenue
 

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Title Note

Personnel: Merl Saunders, John Kahn, Bill Vitt, The Hawkins Singers.

Recorded between 1971 and 1973.

As seems to be the case with many of the Fantasy Records' CD reissues of the various Merl Saunders (keyboards/vocals) and Jerry Garcia (guitar/vocals) collaborations from the 1970s, FIRE UP + (1992) is a pastiche of several different long-players. Contained within the dozen tracks is the entirety of the HEAVY TURBULENCE (1972) project and another half-dozen selections from LIGHT UP (1973). Although both LPs were issued under Saunders' name, the featured musicians centered on significant contributions from Garcia, Tom Fogerty (guitar/vocals), and other friends, including John Kahn (bass) and Bill Vitt (drums). Saunders' arrangements--particularly with the Tower of Power brass on "Man Child" and "Soul Roach"--reveal a hidden talent for the keyboardist. Saunders alternates between the rubbery funk of "Expressway (To Your Heart)" and a comparably leaner sound on J.J. Cale's "After Midnight." Lead vocals are split between Saunders and Garcia, with the latter taking several of these songs with him into the Jerry Garcia Band. Most prominently, "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," "After Midnight," and the laid-back remake of the Doc Pomus R&B classic "Lonely Avenue."

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