Back Up Against the Wall

Back Up Against The Wall
Studio album by Atlanta Rhythm Section
Released	February 1973
Recorded	Studio One, Doraville, Georgia
Genre	Southern rock
Length	36:31
Label	Decca Records
Producer	Buddy Buie
Atlanta Rhythm Section chronology
Atlanta Rhythm Section (1972) Back Up Against The Wall (1973) Third Annual Pipe Dream (1974)

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Allmusic	link
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[1]
Robert Christgau	C+[2]

Back Up Against the Wall is the second album - the first with Ronnie Hammond on lead vocals — by the southern rock band Atlanta Rhythm Section, released in 1973. (See 1973 in music.)^{[3][4][5][6][7]}

Track listing

1. "Wrong" (Buddy Buie, J.R. Cobb) – 2:44
2. "Cold Turkey, Tenn." (Robert Nix) – 3:18
3. "Will I Live On?" (Dean Daughtry, Robert Nix) – 2:52
4. "A Livin' Lovin' Wreck" (Otis Blackwell) – 3:08
5. "Superman" (Randall Bramblett) – 3:26
6. "What You Gonna Do About It?" (Buie, Hammond) – 3:00
7. "Conversation" (Buddy Buie, J.R. Cobb) – 3:29
8. "Redneck" (Joe South) – 3:50
9. "Make Me Believe It" (Buddy Buie, Ronnie Hammond, Robert Nix) – 3:14
10. "Back up Against the Wall" (Buddy Buie, J.R. Cobb) – 3:23
11. "It Must Be Love" (J.R. Cobb, Dean Daughtry, Robert Nix) – 4:07

Personnel

• Barry Bailey - guitar, electric guitar
• Randall Bramblett - piano
• J.R. Cobb - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, steel guitar, vocals, slide guitar
• Dean Daughtry - organ, piano, electric piano
• Paul Goddard - bass guitar
• Ronnie Hammond - piano, vocals
• Al Kooper - synthesizer, ARP
• Robert Nix - drums, vocals
• Billy Lee Riley - harmonica

Production

• Producer: Buddy Buie
• Engineers: Bobby Langford, Rodney Mills
• Mixing: Rodney Mills
• Arranger: Buddy Buie
• Cover design: Mike McCarty
• Illustrations: Mike McCarty

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