Label: Warner Bros. Records (Japan), WPCR 13840
Style: Rock, R&B
Country: London, England
Time: 44:46
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 310 Mb
Long Player is the second album by the British rock group Faces, released in February 1971. Among the highlights are a live cover version of Paul McCartney's "Maybe I'm Amazed", the ballads "Richmond" and "Sweet Lady Mary", the party tune "Had Me a Real Good Time", and uptempo saloon bar rocker "Bad 'n' Ruin". Two tracks, "Maybe I'm Amazed" and "I Feel So Good", were recorded live at the Fillmore East, New York on 10 November 1970. The doomed romance bittersweetly detailed in "Sweet Lady Mary", meanwhile, seems very much like a thematic precursor to Stewart and Wood's better known "Maggie May", which was released only a few months later and which arguably kick-started Stewart toward eventual solo superstardom.
Also recorded during this period was the band's blistering take on Motown classic "(I Know) I'm Losing You" which later appeared on lead singer Rod Stewart's solo album Every Picture Tells a Story rather than on Long Player or as a Faces single release. This practice led to increased murmurings of discontent in some quarters that Stewart's management was keeping the best Faces studio performances for Stewart's solo projects, to the detriment of the band as a unit. While the sessions for both albums did unquestionably overlap, Stewart's dual recording contracts with different labels, as both a solo artist and as a member of the Faces, complicated matters greatly. This led to the odd situation where his Faces colleagues could only be credited individually and not explicitly as 'Faces' for their efforts on his solo albums at the time. As it was, their performance on the track was heavily implied, with a 'thank-you' from Stewart in the LP's liner notes. To further confuse matters, however, the track was then released as a single credited to 'Rod Stewart and the Faces', but only in the USA. Despite being widely regarded as one of the band's finest studio performances, this original version has never been compiled as part of any collection that deals purely with Faces material as it falls outside of their Warner Brothers contract. It has however since appeared - and usually with full credit to the band - on many Stewart solo compilations.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Player_(album))
01. Bad 'N' Ruin (05:22)
02. Tell Everyone (04:17)
03. Sweet Lady Mary (05:45)
04. Richmond (03:04)
05. Maybe I'm Amazed (05:31)
06. Had Me A Real Good Time (05:49)
07. On The Beach (04:14)
08. I Feel So Good (08:46)
09. Jerusalem (01:53)
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