Rough Mix
Rough Mix is an album by guitarist Pete Townshend and bassist Ronnie Lane, released in September 1977 as Polydor 2442 in the UK and MCA 2295 in the US.[1] It peaked at #44 on the UK album chart,[2] and at #45 on the Billboard 200.
Content
On October 21, 1976, The Who closed a brief North American tour in Toronto at the Maple Leaf Gardens, a show that would be the last with Keith Moon before a paying audience.[3] The band members then took a hiatus to pursue various individual interests. Townshend had been initially contacted by Lane to produce his next album, the project instead turning into a full-blown collaboration between the pair.[4]
The album featured songs written by both principals in a vein less like that of The Who or The Faces but instead close to the folk-rock vogue of the early 1970s among various English bands. A number of famous colleagues appeared on the recording, among them Eric Clapton, John Entwistle, Ian Stewart, and Charlie Watts. Orchestral arrangements for the track "Street in the City" were provided by Townshend's father-in-law, noted British film and television theme composer Edwin Astley.
Rough Mix was remastered in 2006 and released by Hip-O Records, the reissue label for the Universal Music Group, in both 5.1 surround sound format on Dualdisc and standard stereo compact disc. The reissue featured three outtakes as bonus tracks.
Track listing
Side one
| Writer(s) |
| 1. |
"My Baby Gives It Away" |
Pete Townshend |
4:02 |
| 2. |
"Nowhere to Run" |
Ronnie Lane |
3:17 |
| 3. |
"Rough Mix" |
Lane, Townshend |
3:12 |
| 4. |
"Annie" |
Eric Clapton, Kate Lambert, Lane |
2:56 |
| 5. |
"Keep Me Turning" |
Townshend |
3:46 |
| 6. |
"Catmelody" |
Lane, Lambert |
3:12 |
Side two
| Writer(s) |
| 1. |
"Misunderstood" |
Townshend |
3:01 |
| 2. |
"April Fool" |
Lane |
3:34 |
| 3. |
"Street in the City" |
Townshend |
6:07 |
| 4. |
"Heart to Hang Onto" |
Townshend |
4:29 |
| 5. |
"Till the Rivers All Run Dry" |
Wayland Holyfield, Don Williams |
3:54 |
2006 reissue bonus tracks
| Writer(s) |
| 1. |
"Only You" |
Lane |
4:29 |
| 2. |
"Good Question" |
Townshend |
3:34 |
| 3. |
"Silly Little Man" |
Lane |
3:44 |
Personnel
- Ronnie Lane and Pete Townshend — vocals, guitars, electric guitars, mandolins, bass guitars, banjos, ukuleles
- Edwin Astley — orchestrations on "Street in the City"
- John "Rabbit" Bundrick — organ, Fender Rhodes on "Nowhere to Run," "Rough Mix," "Keep Me Turning," "Heart to Hang Onto"
- Boz Burrell — bass guitar on "Heart to Hang Onto" and "Till the Rivers All Run Dry"
- Mel Collins — saxophones on "Catmelody"
- Eric Clapton — guitars, dobro on "Rough Mix," "Annie," "April Fool," "Till the Rivers All Run Dry"
- Julian Diggle — percussion on "Misunderstood"
- John Entwistle — horns, vocals on "Heart to Hang Onto" and "Till the Rivers All Run Dry"
- Peter Hope Evans — harmonica on "Nowhere to Run," "Misunderstood"
- Benny Gallagher — accordion on "Annie"
- Tony Gilbert — orchestral leader on "Street in the City"
- Chris Green — principal cello on "Street in the City"
- Charlie Hart — violin on "Annie"
- Chris Laurence — principal bass on "Street in the City"
- Graham Lyle — twelve-string guitar on "Annie"
- David Marquee — double bass on "Annie" and "April Fool"
- Billy Nicholls — vocal on "Till the Rivers All Run Dry"
- Steve Shingles — principal viola on "Street in the City"
- Henry Spinetti — drums on "Nowhere to Run," "Rough Mix," "Keep Me Turning," "Heart to Hang Onto," "Till the Rivers All Run Dry"
- Ian Stewart — piano on "Catmelody"
- Charles Vorsanger — principal second violin on "Street in the City"
- Charlie Watts — drums on "My Baby Gives It Away" and "Catmelody"
References
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