Wilderness (C. W. McCall album)

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Wilderness

Studio album by C. W. McCall
Released	1976
Genre	Country
Length	33:37
Label	Polydor Records
Producer(s)	Chip Davis, Don Sears
All Music Guide link
C. W. McCall chronology
Black Bear Road (1975)	Wilderness (1976)	Rubber Duck (1976)

Wilderness is an album by country musician C. W. McCall, released on Polydor Records in 1976 (see 1976 in music). As its title suggests, it focuses on subjects connected with nature, the environment and humans' impact on them. "There Won't Be No Country Music (There Won't Be No Rock 'n' Roll)", for example, is a statement on the environment's bleak-looking future and the effects of over-commercialization bordering on propaganda. "Crispy Critters", on the other hand, is the humorous telling of a true tale involving a group of hippies riding into a town and being forced away and threatened by the mayor.

1 Track listing
2 Peronnel
- 2.1 Additional personnel
3 Charts
4 External links

[edit] Track listing

"Wilderness" (Bill Fries, Chip Davis) – 3:38
"Jackson Hole" (Fries, Davis) – 2:39
"Riverside Slide" (Fries, Davis) – 3:22
"Crispy Critters" (Fries, Davis) – 2:50
"Roy" (Fries, Davis) – 0:35
"The Little Brown Sparrow and Me" (Fries, Davis) – 3:57
"There Won't Be No Country Music (There Won't Be No Rock 'N' Roll)" (Fries, Davis) – 3:50
"Telluride Breakdown" (Fries, Davis) – 2:08
"Four Wheel Cowboy" (Fries, Davis) – 3:27
"Silver Iodide Blues" (Fries, Davis) – 1:17
"Columbine" (Fries, Davis) – 1:45
"Aurora Borealis" (Fries, Davis) – 4:09

[edit] Peronnel

C. W. McCall - Vocals, Design
Ron Agnew, Almeda Berkey, Gary Morris, Carol Rogers, Jan Sheldrick, Kris Sparks, Sarah Westphalen - Vocals
Chip Davis - Vocals, Drums, Producer, Arranger
Milt Bailey, Jackson Berkey - Vocals, Keyboards
Ron Cooley - 12-String Guitar, Electric Guitar
Eric Hansen - Bass
Steve Hanson - Banjo
Dick Solowicz - Pots and Pans
Chris Stoval - Chimes
Mortimer Alpert, Bruce Bransby, Ruth Bransby, Dorothy Brown, Hugh Brown, Miriam Dufflemeyer, Ginni Eldred, Lucinda Gladics, James Hammond, Jean Hassel, Joe Landes, Gary Lawrence, Beth McCollum, Martin Pearson, Gertrude Phalp, Barbara Potter, Merton Shatzkin, Alex Sokol - Strings
Robert Jenkins, Willis Ann Ross - Woodwinds
Gene Badgett, Michael Berger, Frank Franano, Steve Miller, David Reiswig, Richard Scott, Jim Schanilec, Jim Shoush, Dan Strom, Don Swaggard, Bill Trumbauer, Stephen Wager, Mike Young - Brass

[edit] Additional personnel

Don Sears - Producer, Engineer, Design, Photography
John Boyd - Engineer
Dudycha, Schirck and Associates, Inc. - Art Direction and Production

[edit] Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1976	Country Albums	9
1976	Pop Albums	143

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1976	"There Won't Be No Country Music (There Won't Be No Rock 'N' Roll)"	Country Singles	19
1976	"Old Home Filler-up an' Keep on a-Truckin' Cafe"	Pop Singles	73
1976	"Crispy Critters"	Country Singles	32
1976	"Four Wheel Cowboy"	Country Singles	88