Good to Be Alive (Long John Baldry album)

Good to Be Alive
Studio album by Long John Baldry
Released	1973
Recorded	Spring 1973
Genre	Blues, folk, rock
Length	42:32
Label	GM, Casablanca
Producer	Jimmy Horowitz
Long John Baldry chronology
Everything Stops for Tea (1972)Everything Stops for Tea1972 Good to Be Alive (1973) Welcome to Club Casablanca (1976)Welcome to Club Casablanca1976

Good to Be Alive is an album by Long John Baldry released in 1973. "Maggie Bell" was an acoustic tribute to the singer of Stone the Crows.

Track listing

1. "Gasoline Alley" (Rod Stewart, Ron Wood)
2. "High and Low" (Jeff Thomas)
3. "Song for Martin Luther King" (Baldry)
4. "Good to Be Alive" (Colin Allen, Zoot Money)
5. "Rake and Ramblin' Boy" (arranged by Baldry)
6. "Let Me Pass" (Bo Diddley)
7. "I Wish I Was a Rock" (Derroll Adams)
8. "Brand New Day" (Al Kooper)
9. "Up in the Trees" (Neil Shepherd)
10. "Let's Go" (Chas Jankel)
11. "Maggie Bell" (Baldry)
12. "She" (Chris Ethridge, Gram Parsons) - duet with Lisa Strike

Personnel

• Long John Baldry - 12-string guitar, vocals
• Dave Ball - guitar
• Denny Ball - bass
• Terry Cox, Tony Newman - drums
• Mike Driscoll - drums on "Good to Be Alive"
• John Mealing - organ on "Good to Be Alive"
• Bob Cohen - guitar on "Good to Be Alive"
• Andy Bown - acoustic guitar on "Song for Martin Luther King"
• Jimmy Horowitz - keyboards
• Pete Stanley - banjo
• John Field, Mike French - fiddle
• Sam Mitchell - steel guitar
• Chris Hughes - tenor saxophone
• Lesley Duncan, Lisa Strike, Susie Glover, Kay Garner - background vocals

Technical

• Steve Campbell - photography