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.

As Harrison's other solo works, this album has been re-released on Compact Disc on Repertoire.

Track listing

1. Maverick Woman Blues (Don Nix) - 3:42
2. You And Me (Will Jennings, Seal) - 2:40
3. I'll Keep It With Mine (Bob Dylan) - 4:19
4. Like A Road (Leading Home) (Nix, Dan Penn) - 4:40
5. We Can Work It Out (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) - 3:24
6. Okay Lay Lady Lay (Luther Grosvenor, Harrison) - 6:40
7. Easy (Aitkin, Brown, Harrison) - 4:30
8. Somewhere Over The Rainbow (Harold Arlen, E.Y. Harburg) - 2:36
9. Friend (Belcher, Harrison) - 4:40

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