Oh, What a Mighty Time

John Dawson - Guitar, Vocals, Autoharp, Mouth Harp, Baby Guitar, Percussion, Acme Siren
David Nelson - Guitars, Vocals, Percussion, Regular Tuning-Heineken's Bottle
Skip Battin - Bass, Vocals, Percussion
Buddy Cage - Pedal Steel, Vocal
Spencer Dryden - Drums, Percussion, Vocal

Guest Artists:
Sly Stone - Vocals, Organ, Piano on Mighty Time (courtesy of Epic Records)
Jerry Garcia - Guitar on Mighty Time, Layin' My Old Lady, Take A Letter, Maria (courtesy of Round Records)
Jeff Narell - Steel Drum on Over & Over
Pepper Watkins, Bootche Anderson, Marilyn Scott - Vocals on Layin' My Old Lady, Strangers On A Train, Up Against The Wall, Redneck & Take A Letter, Maria
Ray Park - Fiddle on Going Round The Horn
St Beulah's Church Choir - Vocals on Mighty Time
Portion of Glide Memorial Church Choir - Vocals on Mighty Time
Pattie Santos Cockrell, Pena Blanca, Lucha Cardenas - Vocals on Over & Over, La Bamba
The Senator - Vocals on Over & Over
Andrea Ahlgren - Vocals on Over & Over

Produced by Bob Johnston

October 1975 / Columbia PC 33688-LP/US, December 1975 / CBS S 69182-LP/UK

Side One:

1.MIGHTY TIME, Don Nix (5.09), Island Music Limited
2.I HEARD YOU'VE BEEN LAYIN' MY OLD LADY, R.Weir (3.22), Prophecy Publishing, Inc. (MCPS)
3.STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, Skip Battin / Kim Fowley (2.43), Sonet Productions Limited
4.UP AGAINST THE WALL, REDNECK, R.Wylie Hubbard (3.12), Tennessee Swamp Fox Music Co. Inc.
5.TAKE A LETTER, MARIA, Ronald Bertram Greaves (4.05), E. H. Morris & Co. Limited

Side Two:

1.LITTLE OLD LADY, Richard Wilbur (2.48), Warner Brothers Music Ltd.
2.ON TOP OF OLD SMOKEY, Trad.-arr. & adapted by Frank Wakefield (2.58), Warner Brothers Music Ltd.
3.OVER & OVER, John Dawson (3.08), Warner Brothers Music Ltd.
4.LA BAMBA, Trad.-arr. & adapted by NRPS (3.42), Warner Brothers Music Ltd.
5.GOING ROUND THE HORN, John Dawson / Frank Wakefield (3.32), Warner Brothers Music Ltd.
6.FARWELL ANGELINA, Bob Dylan (2.38), Warner Brothers Music Ltd.

Engineer: Ben Tallent
Assistance Engineers: Tom Anderson & Deni Kulg
Recorded at Record Plant, Sausalito, Ca. July-Aug. 1975

Manager: Joe Kerr
Road Manager: Dale Franklin
Crew: Robbie Cook, Bruce Hendricks
Secretary: Maruska Greene
The Bank: Christeen Kelly
Agency: Magna Artists, Ron Rainey
Front Cover Illustration: Joe Garnett
Back Cover Illustration: Ron Kriss
Cover Photography: Herb Greene
Back Cover Photography: Tyler Thornton
Color Prints: Bob DeSantos
Design: Ron Coro

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Special Thanks.
A special thanks to Michelle Zarin for daring. To Gary Kilgren and Chris Stone for building the ship.
To Jerry Garcia, thanks for coming by just when you did. Didn't you?
Thanks to Sly Stone, the Silver Dollar King. And to Dale Franklin, who got it together and held it together. Bob Johnston

LP: CBS S 69182 (PC 33688), c & p 1975 CBS Inc., CBS is a Trademark of CBS Inc., USA
Made in England