Airborne

Description

Airborne is the sophomore solo album by the American singer and songwriter Ron Moore, independently released on Airborn Records in 1973, a custom label co-founded by Moore and Ed Kilbourne. The album was recorded through the media laboratory of Spirit Company with Ron Moore producing. All songs written by Moore except track A5 written by Pat Terry (and recorded on both his self-titled debut album as well as the debut album by The Pat Terry Group).

Airborne is an equally good album, sticking more or less in the same format as Wilmore despite a personnel switch which now includes Ron’s wife Kerry (electric piano), Ed Kilbourne (harmony vocal), and Mark Heard (guitar). On most of the tracks though it’s just Ron by himself, playing such instruments as guitars, fender bass, piano, electric piano, tambourine, mandolin and harmonica. He also plays an ice cream carton on three songs! A number of references to nature within titles like «Hello California», «Good Morning Sunshine», «Frankfort Song» and «Old Mother Winter». Shifts into acoustic blues for «Blow Up», a song about some hippies who take away a singer’s guitar and burn it in the street. Pat Terry’s «I Can’t Wait (To See Jesus)» is the album’s only cover song. Both Wilmore and Airborne were re-issued in 1979 on Hartsong, but only the Airborn originals have the large fold-out lyric inserts. [Ken Scott, The Archivist, 4th edition]

LP tracklist:

Side One
A1. “Airborne” – 1:20
A2. “Hello California” – 5:02
A3. “Deep and Down” – 3:29
A4. “Good Mornin’ Sunshine” – 3:00
A5. “I Can’t Wait to See Jesus” – 2:25

Side Two
B1. “Frankfort Song” – 2:16
B2. “Blow Up” – 1:59
B3. “Kerrys Song (Flight)” – 2:05
B4. “Old Mother Winter” – 3:30
B5. “Changes” – 1:50
B6. “People and the Power of the Lord” – 4:52

Note: Available at Bandcamp: https://ronmooremusic.bandcamp.com/album/airborne