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Matt Kelly ‎–A Wing And A Prayer cd

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Rare 1993 cd on Castle Communications

The A Wing And A Prayer album actually began in 1973 as Kelly’s solo album with friends playing with him. Friends like Garcia, Mydland, Kreutzmann, Weir and Godchaux from Grateful Dead, a couple of people from New Riders of the Purple Sage (NRPS), Mike Bloomfield from Butterfield’s band, Jerry Miller from Moby Grape, John Cippollina from Quicksilver, Sam Clayton, Nicky Hopkins, and a few other vocalists and players. And from that batch of friends/musicians, the band Kingfish was born. Kelly’s solo album was put on hold. The so-called album disappeared for several years until it got released it in 1985 after Kelly and friends finished recording the remaining songs. First off, this isn’t some long lost, acid infused jam that was still fairly popular during this time-the 1970’s and from the Bay Area. It’s a batch of songs-some by Kelly and some covers, all of them with that vibe from the period, and cooperation from various Bay Area friends/musicians who wanted to play on the album. If you like the first Kingfish album you’ll like this too. Kelly’s songs have that feel of the era, and along with some good covers (“Mona”, “I Got To Be Me”, “It Ain’t Easy”, “Next Time You See Me”) the band’s sound-a combination of The Grateful Dead and NRPS mostly-is worth hearing for fans of the bands mentioned and of that period in general. The music has the feel of whomever is playing on that particular tune-and with the calibre of musicians involved-that’s not a bad thing. Aside from the synthesizer and drum track on the first song, this has the feel of a laid back batch of songs from San Francisco. The vocals are handled by Kelly, Dave Torbert (NRPS), Bob Weir or Brent Mydland (The Grateful Dead), and Patti Cathcart on a couple of tunes. Throughout the album you’ll hear Garcia’s beautiful guitar playing, Jerry Miller’s solid rhythm guitar, Bloomfield’s sweet bluesy sound, and Kelly-who’s no slouch on the guitar or harmonica. Cathcart gets in some good gospel tinged vocals on a couple of songs. Is this some long lost Bay Area treasure? Well, kind of. But only if you’re a deep fan of the above bands and that whole period of music. If you’re not, you won’t be impressed. The album takes a couple of hearings before it shows it’s true colours.

Track list:
1. Eyes Of The Night
2. Mona
3. Dangerous Relations
4. Over And Over
5. Shining Dawn
6. I Got To Be Me
7. It Ain’t Easy
8. Ridin High
9. Next Time You See Me
10. Mess Around
11. Harpoon Magic
12. If That’s The Way

Additional information

Label

Castle Communications ‎Records

Catalogue Number

CCRCD 103

Release Year

1993