Right Side Up

Right Side Up
Studio album by Ralph McTell
Released	1976
Recorded	London
Genre	Folk
Length	32:44
Label	Warner Bros. Records/WEA
Producer	Ralph McTell, Peter Swettenham
Ralph McTell chronology
Streets... (1975) Right Side Up (1976) Ralph, Albert & Sydney (1977)

Right Side Up is an album by Ralph McTell released in 1976 by Warner Bros. Records/WEA, recorded at Air Studios in London by Pete Henderson and Mike Stavrou, and produced by Ralph McTell and Peter Swettenham (one-time member of band Grapefruit).

Musicians who appear on the album include Danny Thompson, (double bass), John Stevens and Pick Withers - (drums) - Rod Clements (of Lindisfarne), - Dave Pegg (from Fairport Convention), bass players. Backing vocals were provided by Tony Rivers - of The Castaways - Ken Gold and John Perry. John Martyn played guitar on River Rising.^[1]

Track listing

• San Diego Serenade - (McTell - "I've always admired Tom Waits writing for both his melody and his wonderfully evocative lyrics")
• Naomi
• Tequila Sunset
• Weather the Storm - (McTell - "It remains one of my most requested pieces in live work")
• River Rising
• From Clare to Here - (McTell - "A chance remark from a fellow building site labourer remembered from 1963 as " its a long way from Clare to here. "
• Chairman and the Little Man
• Country Boys - (McTell : "Cornwall was in my mind when I wrote this, and Ry Cooder was on everybody's turntable")
• Slow Burning Companion
• Nightmares
• May You Never (McTell - "John Martyn has written so many beautiful songs, but I guess this is still my favourite.")
• Song for Ireland (additional track, learnt by McTell from the version by Dick Gaughan, written by Phil Colclough originally released in 1982, added to re-release of the album)

References

External links

• Allmusic album review