Description
Reasons is an album by the American folk/pop group The Simple Truth, released on Tempo Records in 1974. The album was recorded by Ron Ubel at Sound Recorders in Kansas City, Missouri; and at Sound Recorders in Omaha, Nebraska; with Jesse Peterson producing. The album was mixed by Frank Kejmar at Whitney Studios in Glendale, California. Arrangements by Tom Keene and Chad Watson.
Simple Truth features Paul Land on vocals and guitar, Chad Watson on vocals, guitar, and piano, Rick Passer in bass and vocals, and Stan Adell on percussion.
The buying public of today has shown very definitely that they can be pleased with an amazingly wide spectrum of subject matter in the songs they listen to. It goes all the way from living “in the ghetto” to Rocky Mountain high – from “spiders and snakes” to “Billy don’t be a hero” – from “I honestly love you” to “you’re in vain”. Are the writers and performers of today really trying to tell us something, or have they merely found that great masses of people can very easily be ripped off? I’m sure that the spectrum is just as wide concerning the reasons those songs are written. Contained in this album are our reasons; not only for what we do, but for what we are. Listen closely – maybe these thoughts will shed some light on your reasons. [Note printed on the back of the LP sleeve]
Improved follow-up still has a degree of mellow studio polish, especially side one’s string-softened ballads and mellow country light rock. But side two seems to shed that image in favor of a good hands-off hippie country twangin’ approach akin to that Hallelujah Joy Band album. They can rock along up-tempo as on the whimsical «Pharisee» (which borrows part of Ricky Nelson’s «Garden Party»), or slow to a lazy stroll like «Bubba’s Song». Includes a cover of Verne Bullock’s country ditty «Walkin’ And Talkin». Closes with a fine six-and-a-half minute moody rural track in three parts called «Mountain Testimony». [Ken Scott, The Archivist]
LP tracklist:
Side One
A1. “Reasons” – 3:00
A2. “Walkin’ And Talkin'” – 2:28
A3. “Leave It There” – 2:36
A4. “Jesus Is For You” – 2:23
A5. “Letter To A Friend” – 4:30
Side Two
B1. “Pharisee” – 2:09
B2. “Bubba’s Song” – 3:16
B3. “Sister’s Song” – 0:52
B4. “Joey’s Tune” – 1:04
B5. “Help Me, Lord” – 1:49
B6. “Mountain Testimony” (There’s A Mountain / Mountain Music / Testimony) – 6:33
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