Where the Beat Meets the Street | ||||
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Released | August 1984 | |||
Genre | Rock, country | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Producer | Jeff Baxter | |||
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Where the Beat Meets the Street is the second studio album by Grateful Dead rhythm guitarist Bob Weir and his side-project, Bobby and the Midnites. The album reached number 166 on the Billboard 200.[2]
Track listing
[edit]- "(I Want to Live in) America" (Bobby Cochran, Bob Weir, John Perry Barlow, Gerrit Graham)
- "Where the Beat Meets the Street" (Nicky Chinn, Steve Glen)
- "She's Gonna Win Your Heart" (Mentor Williams, Billy Burnette)
- "Ain't That Peculiar" (Smokey Robinson, Warren Moore, Marvin Tarplin, Bobby Rogers)
- "Lifeguard" (Dennis Lambert, Peter Beckett)
- "Rock in the 80's" (Cochran)
- "Lifeline" (Roddy, Medica, Frederiksen, Haselden)
- "Falling" (Jeff Baxter, Weir, Barlow, Kenny Gradney)
- "Thunder & Lightning" (Weir, Cochran)
- "Gloria Monday" (Weir, Barlow, Baxter)
Personnel
[edit]Bobby and the Midnites
- Bob Weir – guitar, lead and background vocals
- Bobby Cochran – guitar, lead and background vocals
- Dave Garland – keyboards, synthesizers, tenor and alto saxophone, background vocals
- Kenny Gradney – bass, background vocals
- Billy Cobham – drums
Additional musicians
- Jeff Baxter – guitar, synthesizers
- Paulette Brown – vocals
- Steve Cropper – guitar
- Paulinho Da Costa – percussion
- Chuck Domenico – bass
- Jim Ehinger – keyboards
- Alphonso Johnson – bass
- Sherlie Matthews – vocals
- Brian Setzer – guitar
Production
- Producer – Jeff Baxter
- Production coordinators – Marylata Elton and David Richman
- Engineer – Larold Rebhun
- Assistant engineers – John Bogosian, David Ferguson and Mark Wilczak
- Mastering – Elliot Federman
- Design & redesign – David Richman
- Photography – Glenn Wexler
- Art direction – Joel Zimmerman
- Coordination – Doug Wygal and Jamie Reamer
References
[edit]- ^ Ruhlman, William. "Where the Beat Meets the Street". AllMusic. Retrieved October 21, 2018.
- ^ Where the Beat Meets the Street chart info at AllMusic