Let It Flow (album)
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Let It Flow is the third solo album by Southern rock
Southern rock
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/Blues-rock
Blues-rock
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/Country rock
Country rock
Country rock is sub-genre of popular music, formed from the fusion of rock with country. The term is generally used to refer to the wave of rock musicians who began to record country-flavored records in the late 1960s and early 1970s, beginning with Bob Dylan and The Byrds; reaching its greatest...

 musician Elvin Bishop
Elvin Bishop
Elvin Bishop is an American blues and rock and roll musician and guitarist.-Career:Bishop was born in Glendale, California, and grew up on a farm near Elliott, Iowa. His family moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, when he was ten years old...

. The album was recorded in 1974 at Capricorn Studios
Capricorn Records
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 in Macon, Georgia
Macon, Georgia
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, several years after he left The Butterfield Blues Band
Paul Butterfield
Paul Butterfield was an American blues vocalist and harmonica player, who founded the Paul Butterfield Blues Band in the early 1960s and performed at the original Woodstock Festival...

. Guest musicians include Charlie Daniels
Charlie Daniels
Charles Edward "Charlie" Daniels is an American musician known for his contributions to country and southern rock music. He is known primarily for his number one country hit "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", and multiple other songs he has performed and written. Daniels has been active as a singer...

, Dickey Betts
Dickey Betts
Forrest Richard "Dickey" Betts is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, and composer best known as a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band. He was inducted with the band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 and also won with the band a best rock performance Grammy Award for his...

, Toy Caldwell
Toy Caldwell
Toy Talmadge Caldwell Jr. was the lead guitar player and a founding member of the 1970s Southern Rock group The Marshall Tucker Band. He was a member of the band from 1973 to 1983.-Early life:...

, Vassar Clements
Vassar Clements
Vassar Clements was a Grammy Award- winning American jazz, swing, and bluegrass fiddler. Clements has been dubbed the Father of Hillbilly Jazz, an improvisational style that blends and borrows from swing, hot jazz, and bluegrass along with roots also in country and other musical...

, and Sly Stone
Sly Stone
Sly Stone is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer, most famous for his role as frontman for Sly & the Family Stone, a band which played a critical role in the development of soul, funk and psychedelia in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1993, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of...

.

Track listing

All songs written by Elvin Bishop except where noted.
  1. "Sunshine Special"
  2. "Ground Hog"
  3. "Honey Babe"
  4. "Stealin' Watermelons"
  5. "Travelin' Shoes"
  6. "Let It Flow"
  7. "Hey Good Lookin'
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    " (Hank Williams)
  8. "Fishin'"
  9. "Can't Go Back"
  10. "I Can't Hold Myself in Line"
  11. "Bourbon Street"

Personnel

  • Elvin Bishop
    Elvin Bishop
    Elvin Bishop is an American blues and rock and roll musician and guitarist.-Career:Bishop was born in Glendale, California, and grew up on a farm near Elliott, Iowa. His family moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, when he was ten years old...

     - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, slide guitar, lead vocals
  • Johnny Sandlin - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, percussion, tambourine
  • John Vernazza - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, slide guitar, background vocals
  • Charlie Daniels
    Charlie Daniels
    Charles Edward "Charlie" Daniels is an American musician known for his contributions to country and southern rock music. He is known primarily for his number one country hit "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", and multiple other songs he has performed and written. Daniels has been active as a singer...

     - fiddle, acoustic guitar, washboard, background vocals
  • Philip Aaberg
    Philip Aaberg
    Philip Aaberg is an American pianist, keyboardist, and composer. He gained international recognition through a series of successful piano recordings released on Windham Hill Records. Although classically trained, Aaberg incorporates classical, jazz, bluegrass, rock, and new music elements into his...

     - piano, keyboards, clavinet
  • Donny Baldwin
    Donny Baldwin
    Donny Baldwin is an American drummer best known as a member of Jefferson Starship and its continuation Starship.Donny began his career as a drummer for Elvin Bishop during the 1970s where he worked with future Jefferson Starship bandmate Mickey Thomas...

     - drums, background vocals
  • Dickey Betts
    Dickey Betts
    Forrest Richard "Dickey" Betts is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, and composer best known as a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band. He was inducted with the band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 and also won with the band a best rock performance Grammy Award for his...

     - electric guitar
  • Toy Caldwell
    Toy Caldwell
    Toy Talmadge Caldwell Jr. was the lead guitar player and a founding member of the 1970s Southern Rock group The Marshall Tucker Band. He was a member of the band from 1973 to 1983.-Early life:...

     - steel guitar
  • Michael Brooks
    Michael Brooks
    Michael Brooks is an American historian and investigative journalist. Brooks has a Ph.D. from the University of Toledo.-Journalism:...

     - bass guitar
  • Paul Hornsby - organ, keyboards
  • Sly Stone
    Sly Stone
    Sly Stone is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer, most famous for his role as frontman for Sly & the Family Stone, a band which played a critical role in the development of soul, funk and psychedelia in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1993, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of...

     - organ, keyboards
  • Vassar Clements
    Vassar Clements
    Vassar Clements was a Grammy Award- winning American jazz, swing, and bluegrass fiddler. Clements has been dubbed the Father of Hillbilly Jazz, an improvisational style that blends and borrows from swing, hot jazz, and bluegrass along with roots also in country and other musical...

     - strings
  • Stephen Miller - piano
  • Randall Bramblett
    Randall Bramblett
    Randall Bramblett is an American musician and singer-songwriter, whose career as a solo artist, session player, and touring musician, has spanned more than three decades. He has worked with such notable performers as Gregg Allman, Bonnie Raitt, Robbie Robertson, Elvin Bishop, Steve Winwood,...

    - saxophone
  • Dave Brown - saxophone
  • Harold Williams - saxophone
  • Bill Meeker - drums
  • Jo Baker - percussion, background vocals
  • Debbie Cathey - background vocals
  • Gideon Daniels - background vocals
  • Jerome Joseph - conga, conductor
  • Annie Sampson - background vocals
  • Mickey Thompson - background vocals
  • David Walshaw - percussion, tambourine

Production

  • Producer: Johnny Sandlin
  • Recording Engineer: Sam Whiteside
  • Liner Notes: unknown
  • Art Direction: unknown
  • Photography: unknown
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