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Black Oak Arkansas Discography | | |
  Balls of Fire
MCA 2199 (1976)
Released also as:
MCA 2762 (1976, UK)
REPERTOIRE 455128 (CD)
TIS 4045512 (CD)
SIDE ONE Ramblin' Gamblin' Man (2:43) Fistful of Love (3:16) Make That Scene (2:15) I Can Feel
Forever (3:07) Rock 'n'
Roll (3:36)
SIDE TWO Great Balls of Fire (2:22) Just to Fall in Love (3:52) Leather Angel (2:59) Storm of
Passion (4:06) All My
Troubles (3:57)
All selections written by Black Oak Arkansas except: "Great Balls of Fire" written by J. Hammer
– O. Blackwell and "
Ramblin' Gamblin' Man" written by Bob Seger. Produced by Black Oak Arkansas. Engineered & mixed
by Ron Capone.
Recorded at Ardent Recording Studio, Memphis, Tennessee. Ruby Starr and Marius Penczner (of Grey Ghost)
appear on
"Ramblin' Gamblin' Man", "Fistful of Love" and "Just to Fall in Love"
and Marius Penczner on "Great Balls of Fire" through the
courtesy of Capitol Records. Printed in 1976.
Line-up Tommy Aldridge: drums ~ Pat Daugherty: bass ~ Jimmy Henderson: guitar ~ Stanley Knight: guitar
~ Jim Mangrum:
vocals ~ Rick Reynolds: guitar. Additional musicians Marius Penczner: keyboards ~ Ruby Starr: vocals
One of my personal favorites was always Balls Of Fire. I just kinda liked the way that one turned
out...When we
finished recording the album,we discovered that we were one song short!!! So in 5 minutes, I went into
Tom Dowd's
office, and wrote a song called ROCK AND ROLL, which was one of my personal favorites off of that album-and
which we still play live!!!!...We brought a LIVE Harley into Ardent Recording studios here in Memphis,[where
ZZ TOP
does most of there recording!], and taped that track LEATHER ANGEL!! We then took the bike outside for
the stereo
panning you hear later on in the song! They thought we had TOTALLY LOST OUR MINDS!!!!!!!! If you listen
to that
song, you'll discover that instead of being all in 4 or 8 Time - most of that critter is in 5 Time!!
Makes it kinda hard to
dance to, but alot of fun to play! HAHA!! Soybean and myself wrote that.I also like the wind on the
end that goes into
"STORM OF PASSION" [one of mine]. – Rickie Lee Reynolds
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