Rainbow Rider (album)

Rainbow Rider is the third solo album by Mike Harrison, most notable as a principal lead singer for Spooky Tooth.^[1] It was released in 1975, on Island Records. In addition to being part of Harrison's body of solo work, the album is notable as containing one of the earlier and comparatively rare recordings of the Bob Dylan song, "I'll Keep It With Mine", written in 1964 and recorded by Nico, Fairport Convention and Marianne Faithfull, among others.^[2] The album was recorded in Nashville, subsequent to Harrison's departure from Spooky Tooth, following the release of Witness (1973). The album features a number of Nashville's best known session musicians of that time, as well as Morgan Fisher, then of Mott the Hoople, and Mick Jones, then of Spooky Tooth and later founder of Foreigner.

Unlike Harrison's other solo work, as of 2009 this album has not been re-released on Compact Disc.

Track listing

1. Maverick Woman Blues (Nix)
2. You And Me (Jennings,Seal)
3. I'll Keep It With Mine (Dylan)
4. Like A Road (Leading Home) (Nix, Penn)
5. We Can Work It Out (Lennon–McCartney)
6. Okay Lay Lady Lay (Grosvenor, Harrison)
7. Easy (Aitkin, Brown, Harrison)
8. Somewhere Over The Rainbow (Arlen, Harburg)
9. Friend (Belcher, Harrison)

Personnel

• Mike Harrison - vocals,harmonica
• Kenneth Buttrey - drums
• Morgan Fisher - keyboards
• Norbert Putnam - bass
• Bob Cohen - guitar
• Kirk Lorange - guitar
• Mick Jones - guitar
• The Memphis Horns - horns
• Corona Stage School - vocals

References