Artist:  David Bromberg

Title:  You Should See the Rest of the Band

Date:  1980

Label:  Fantasy Records  

Art By:  Gahan Wilson

Cover Concept:  David Bromberg

Photography By:  Sarah Shoaf

Notes:  This fantastic album features David playing live with his "large band".  It seems that everyone is a multi-instrumentalist with chops to spare.  Recorded live at various venues during 1979 this collection of tunes smokes the grooves.  A few tunes feature Garth Hudson of The Band. Bromberg seems to cycle between touring, writing and then disappearing for years at a time to create fine wooden instruments.  If it has string he can play it.  Well saying "play it" isn't really giving him his due; the man can make the instrument sing, talk, squawk and purr.  If you ever have the chance to see him, in any musical configuration, don't pass it up.

Track Listing

Side 1

Key to the Highway
Helpless Blues
Sharon

Side 2

As the Years Go Passing By
Solid Gone
Yankee's Revenge (Medley)
(a) Leather Britches 
(b) The Red-Haired Boy
(c) Teetotaler's Reel 
(d) The Wind That Shakes the Barley
(e) Drowsy Maggie

David Bromberg: lead vocals, lead electric and acoustic guitars, fiddle
Peter Ecklund: cornet, trumpet, flugelhorn, trumpet solo on "Solid Gone"
Curtis Linberg: trombone
John Firmin: soprano, tenor and baritone saxophones, flute, penny whistle, clarinet
 

Garth Hudson: accordion on "Solid Gone", organ on "As the Years Go Passing By"
Dick Pegy: guitar, mandolin on "Solid Gone", first electric guitar solos on "Key to the Highway" and "As the Years Go Passing By"
George Kindler: mandolin on "Solid Gone", electric violin on "As the Years Go Passing By", fiddle
Hugh McDonald: bass, vocals
Lance Dickerson: drums, vocals