The Welsh Connection is the eleventh album by the Welsh progressive rock band Man

Man (band)

Man are a rock band from South Wales whose style is a mixture of West Coast psychedelia, progressive rock, blues and country-rock. Formed in 1968 as a reincarnation of Welsh rock harmony group ‘’The Bystanders’’, Man are renowned for the extended jams in their live performances, and having had...

 and was released on the MCA Records

MCA Records

MCA Records was an American-based record company owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group , of which MCA Records was still part. MCA Records was absorbed by Geffen Records in 2003...

 label 1976. It was their first MCA release, and the first after a change of line-up that saw John McKenzie take over on bass from Martin Ace, and Phil Ryan

Phil Ryan (musician)

Phil Ryan is a Welsh keyboardist and composer, best known for his work with Man and Pete Brown-Early career:...

  rejoin. Ryan had worked with Pete Brown

Pete Brown

Peter Ronald Brown is an English performance poet and lyricist.Best known for his collaborations with Jack Bruce, Brown also worked with The Battered Ornaments, formed his own group Pete Brown & Piblokto!, and worked with Graham Bond and Phil Ryan. Brown also writes film scores and formed a film...

 in the interim, and arranged for Brown to play on two tracks.

Side one

1. "The Ride and the View" (Deke Leonard) – 5:01
2. "Out Of Your Head" (Leonard) – 4:04
3. "Love Can Find A Way" (John McKenzie) – 5:13
4. "The Welsh Connection" (Phil Ryan, Micky Jones) – 7:18

Side two

1. "Something Is Happening" (Ryan) – 6:21
2. "Car Toon" (Leonard, Ryan) – 6:01
3. "Born With A Future" (Jones, Leonard, Ryan) – 7:07

Personnel

• Terry Williams
  Terry Williams (drummer)
  Terrence "Terry" Williams is a Welsh rock drummer, whose resume includes work for Dire Straits, B. B. King, and Bob Dylan....
  
   – Vocals & Drums
• Phil Ryan
  Phil Ryan (musician)
  Phil Ryan is a Welsh keyboardist and composer, best known for his work with Man and Pete Brown-Early career:...
  
   – Vocals & Keyboards
• John McKenzie – Vocals & Bass
• Deke Leonard
  Deke Leonard
  Roger "Deke" Leonard is a rock musician, "serving a life sentence in the music business." Best known as a member of the progressive rock band Man, which he joined and left several times, and for fronting his own rock and roll band Iceberg, which he formed and disbanded several times, he is also...
  
   – Vocals & Guitar
• Micky Jones – Vocals & Guitar

Credits

• Doug Bennett - Engineer
• Nigel Brooke-Heart - Tape operation and Vocal on "Car Toon"
• Caromay Dixon – Vocal on "Something is Happening"
• Jeffrey Hooper – Vocal on "Out of Your Head"
• Anton Matthews – Vocal on "Out of Your Head"
• Pete Brown
  Pete Brown
  Peter Ronald Brown is an English performance poet and lyricist.Best known for his collaborations with Jack Bruce, Brown also worked with The Battered Ornaments, formed his own group Pete Brown & Piblokto!, and worked with Graham Bond and Phil Ryan. Brown also writes film scores and formed a film...
  
   – African Talking Drums on "The Welsh Connection" and "Something is Happening"
• Andrew Lauder
  Andrew Lauder (music executive)
  Andrew Lauder is a record company executive and former A&R manager. Initially noted for his adventurous signings of bands as diverse as Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Can, Hawkwind and Brinsley Schwarz to Liberty Records and United Artists Records in the 1960s and 70s, he went on to form numerous...
  
   - Mixing
• Joe Petagno
  Joe Petagno
  Joe Petagno is an artist known principally for creating images used on rock album covers, for bands such as Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Nazareth, Motörhead, Roy Harper, Marduk, Nightshade, and Illdisposed....
  
  - Cover design