Ever Changing Minstrel

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Album Info

Release Date: 2012

Label: Tompkins Square

Originally released as Columbia KC 33535, 1973

With a 8 pages booklet.
From the booklet: ...One day in February 1973, Bob Johnston heard a knock at his kitchen door
"I'm Bill Wilson, and I want to make a record."
"Well, you came to the wrong house. You can't just show up and make a fucking record"
"Well, will you listen to one song I got?"
"I'll listen to one song..."
"So I listened to twelve," Johnston remembers. "Called the musicians and made that record that night."
Johnston hastily summoned his crew, some of the best Nashville session players of the era. Several had played on "Blonde on Blonde": Mac Gayden on slide, Charlie Daniels on guitar, Bob Wilson on piano, Charlie McCoy on harmonica/various instruments, Kenny Buttrey on drums, Jerry Reed on guitar, Pete Drake on steel guitar. Cissy Houston and two other singers sang backing vocals. We think. There's no personnel listed on the LP sleeve, in Columbia's archives, nor at the AFM office in Nashville. McCoy and Gayden don't recall the session. So we have to rely on Johnston's memory. Bob Johnston never spoke to or saw Bill Wilson again after the session...