Les Dudek is American

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 guitarist

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 Les Dudek

Les Dudek

Les Dudek is an American guitarist.-Early years:Les Dudek's father, Harold, was born in Campbell, Nebraska, and was a World War II veteran in the United States Navy. His mother, Alma, born in Brooklyn, was a former Radio City Music Hall Rockette. Les has one older sister, Sandy, who was born in...

's 1976 self-titled solo debut album

Album

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Track listing

All songs by Les Dudek unless noted otherwise.

1. "City Magic" – 5:34
2. "Sad Clown" – 5:29
3. "Don't Stop Now" – 3:54
4. "Each Morning" – 7:22
5. "It Can Do" – 6:31
6. "Take The Time" – 4:09
7. "Cruisin' Groove" – 4:08
8. "What a Sacrifice" (James Curly Cooke, Les Dudek) – 05:53

Influence

Steve Miller covered "What a Sacrifice" on his album Book of Dreams

Book of Dreams

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as "Sacrifice", which included Dudek and James Curly Cooke in the recording.
His early releases strongly influenced by the southern rock style of the Allman Brothers Band- Slide guitar and dual drummers on a few tracks. Les was one of the replacement considerations after the death of Duane Allman. He is said to have had uncredited contributions to "Ramblin Man" and "Jessica" and was part of the recording. Influence from his work with Boz Scaggs adds a flare of funky Jazz.

Personnel and Production

• Les Dudek
  Les Dudek
  Les Dudek is an American guitarist.-Early years:Les Dudek's father, Harold, was born in Campbell, Nebraska, and was a World War II veteran in the United States Navy. His mother, Alma, born in Brooklyn, was a former Radio City Music Hall Rockette. Les has one older sister, Sandy, who was born in...
  
   : vocals and guitars, backing vocals (05)
• Jeff Porcaro
  Jeff Porcaro
  Jeffrey Thomas "Jeff" Porcaro was an American session drummer and a founding member of the Grammy Award winning band Toto. Porcaro was one of the most recorded drummers in history, working on hundreds of albums and thousands of sessions...
  
   : drums (01,02,03,04,05,06,07,08)
• Gerald Johnson : bass (01,06,07)
• David Paich
  David Paich
  David Frank Paich is a session musician, keyboard player, recording producer, arranger, vocalist and main composer of the Los Angeles-based rock/pop band Toto. David is the son of the late jazz composer, musician, and arranger Marty Paich...
  
   : piano (01,04,07), organ (01,02,03,05,07), Moog (04), Rhodes piano (08)
• Chuck Rainey
  Chuck Rainey
  Chuck Rainey, is an American bass guitar session musician, known for playing with many well-known American musicians and acts, including Donald Byrd, Steely Dan, Quincy Jones, and Aretha Franklin.-Biography:Rainey's youthful pursuits included violin, piano and trumpet...
  
   : bass (05,08)
• Jim Hughart : bass (02)
• David Hungate
  David Hungate
  David Hungate is a bass player noted as a member of Los Angeles pop-rock band Toto from 1977-1982. Boz Scaggs's Silk Degrees album of 1976 included Hungate and several other future members of Toto...
  
   : bass (03,04)
• Tom Scott
  Tom Scott (musician)
  Tom Scott is an American saxophonist, composer, arranger, conductor and bandleader of the west coast jazz/jazz fusion ensemble The L.A. Express.-Biography:Scott was born in Los Angeles, California...
  
   : lyracon (03)
• David Foster
  David Foster
  David Walter Foster, OC, OBC , is a Canadian musician, record producer, composer, singer, songwriter, and arranger, noted for discovering singers such as Michael Bublé, Josh Groban, and Charice Pempengco; and for producing some of the most successful artists in the world, such as Céline Dion, Toni...
  
   : Rhodes piano (08)
• Mailto Correa : congas (08)
• Glen Cronchite : percussion (08)
• Boz Scaggs
  Boz Scaggs
  William Royce "Boz" Scaggs is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. He gained fame in the 1970s with several Top 20 hit singles in the United States, along with the #2 album, Silk Degrees. Scaggs continues to write, record music and tour.-Early life and career:Scaggs was born in Canton,...
  
  : backing vocals (05)
• Maxine Green (01,06), Pepper Swenson (01,06), Jeri Stevens (01,06), Carolyn Willis (04,08), Myrna Matthews (04,08), Rebecca Louis (04,08) : background vocals

• Produced by Boz Scaggs
• Recorded at Davlen Sound Studios, N. Hollywood, CA
• Engineered by Leonard Kovner
• Mixed by Tom Knox

• Additional Recording at Columbia Recording Studios, San Francisco, CA
• Engineered by Roy Segal, Glen Kolotkin and staff
• Mixed by Doug Sax

• Remastered in 2007 at Sound Performance by Andrew Thompson