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It Makes Me Glad is the third and final contemporary studio album by the American power rock trio Glass Harp featuring guitarist Phil Keaggy, released on Decca Records in 1972, a division of MCA. The album was recorded at Electric Lady Studios in New York’s Greenwich Village with Lewis Merenstein producing.
It Makes Me Glad – Glass Harp – Decca DL7-5358.
Glass Harp are a rock trio using guitar, bass and drums. Although this definition immediately brings to mind images of Cream and Mountain-type groups, this Cleveland trio has a totally different approach to three-piece music than anything else around. Guitarist Phil Keaggy is capable of all the standard rock-blues fare, but is also adept at flashing off virtuoso classical runs as well. Drummer John Sferra and bassist-flautist Dan Pecchio provided a highly orchestrated rhythm section on this new set of tunes that feature «Song In The Air», «Do Lord», «Sea and You», «I’m Going Home» and an agile instrumental, «David & Goliath». [Cash Box Album Reviews/Pop Best Bets, CashBox, Vol. XXXIV – No. 12 / September 9, 1972]
It Makes Me Glad once again effectively balances the graceful acoustic and heavier rocking sides of Glass Harp. A touch of late-period Beatles can be detected on the opening «See Saw» as well as «La De Da». «Colt» is melodic, upbeat and bright-eyed, while «Sea And You» provides another one of Sferra’s moody shimmering dreamscapes. Keaggy wrote or co-wrote all the songs on side two, including the instrumental «David & Goliath», «I’m Going Home», a hard-rocking arrangement of «Do Lord» (set to new music), the sprightly acoustic «Song In The Air» and the climactic rocker «Let’s Live Together». All instruments, arrangements and vocals by Glass Harp. The back cover is one big photo montage with tons of cut-out pics of the guys. All three of the group’s Decca albums were re-issued on individual CDs by the German Line label in 1993. [Ken Scott, The Archivist, 4th Edition]
LP tracklist:
Side One
A1. “See Saw” – 2:12
A2. “Sailing On A River” – 3:38
A3. “La De Da” – 5:45
A4. “Colt” – 3:23
A5. “Sea And You” – 4:15
Side Two
B1. “David & Goliath” (Instrumental) – 2:50
B2. “I’m Going Home” – 2:40
B3. “Do Lord” – 4:22
B4. “Song In The Air” – 2:35
B5. “Let’s Live Together” – 3:50
Note: Simultaneously released on 8-track tape, cassette, and 12-inch vinyl LP by Decca Records. Re-issued on CD by Lineca in 1993, a sub-label of the German label Line Music GmbH. Remastered in 2005 and released on CD by Music Mill Entertainment. Available at Bandcamp: https://glassharp.bandcamp.com/album/it-makes-me-glad
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