Mercury Records Collection: Smash SRS-67029: Feel Real

SRS-67029: Feel Real / Eddie Baccus

Label Type :	red Smash
Matrix Number :	SIDE-A	SRS67029-A S1 I FF
	SIDE-B	SRS67029-B S1 AI FF

Comments

a drilled hole near the top-left corner of the cover.

Inside The Groove

North Carolina's soulful organ player Eddie Baccus' only album, accompanied with Roland Kirk as a guest player.

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

According to the liner-notes on the back cover, the pianist Eddie Baccus was discovered by Roland Kirk, started organ lessons, then after graduation he rejoined Kirk. Anyway, it was Roland Kirk who recommended the Smash label's producer to record Eddie Baccus' organ.

His style is something typical - an organ player who mainly played piano. Thus his organ sounds rather fragmentary, like many pianists tend to. However, it's again Roland Kirk who made this album so special - his flute can be heard on B-1, which itself is awesome and supreme.

Strictly Personal Rating (to what extent I could enjoy this album)

7 out of 10

Track Listing

SIDE-A
A-1	PB9171 (26675)	Feel Real (Roland Kirk)	3:35
A-2	PB9175 (26679)	Out Of Nowhere (Johnny Green & Edward Heyman)	3:14
A-3	PB9169 (26673)	Stranger On The Shore (Acker Bilk & Robert Mellin)	4:48
A-4	PB9172 (26676)	Blues At Dawn (Roland Kirk)	8:00
SIDE-B
B-1	PB9176 (26680)	A Breath In The Wind (Roland Kirk)	5:06
B-2	PB9174 (26678)	Flight 464 (Eddie Baccus)	5:26
B-3	PB9170 (26674)	Phoebe (Eddie Baccus)	3:56
B-4	PB9173 (26677)	In A Minor Groove (Eddie Baccus)	6:02

Personnel

Personnel/recorded date/master numbers confirmed with the Ruppli's discography.
(“The Mercury Labels - A Discography” by Ruppli and Novitsky, Greenwood Press, 1993)

Roland Kirk is credited as “Theoshis Tannis” on the back cover.

Eddie Baccus (org), Mose Fowler (g), George Cook (ds) or Charles Crosby (ds).
Roland Kirk (fl) on B-1.
Recorded at Universal Recording Studios, Chicago, IL in October 1962.