Please have some patience as my time is limited. I anticipate that since I am "copying + pasting" there will be some crap that doesn't translate out well, b/c you are going from one software type to another.
I wrote the articles, but my new associate from NJ, helped me w/ footnoting, citating and categorizing the article. If you want to see the actual article. Go to the main Wikipedia page, type in the name of the song (noth both of them at the same time) and then on the next Net page, pick the one relating to "song".
Here's the article.
The song Glad opens Traffic album, John Barleycorn Must Die, which was released in 1970. The song, composed by Steve Winwood, is an instrumental running 6 minutes, 59 seconds. The song is heavily influenced by jazz especially in its instrumentation and improvisational nature."Glad" has three distinct sections. The first section is one minute, 46 seconds long. The melody is shared by Steve Winwood, on the piano, and Chris Wood on saxophone with Capaldi's drums and Winwood's organ harmonizing the melody. The second section starts at one minute, 47 seconds into the song with Wood's saxophone playing most of the melody through this section. The last section starts at 4 minutes, 18 seconds into the song and has a moody,contemplative melody by Winwood on the piano that is harmonized by his organ, as well as Jim Capaldi, and Wood. Long, sustained notes from Winwood ends the song as it seamlessly flows into the second song of the album, "Freedom Rider".During 2009, the song has been played at Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood's concert tour of fourteen cities. Clapton substitutes his guitar for Chris Wood's saxophone parts in the song and Winwood and Clapton omit the song's last section. The song is also on Clapton and Winwood's Live From Madison Square Garden. Tell the Truth is the eighth song from the album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs by Derek and the Dominos. The song is composed primarily by Bobby Whitlock, and Eric Clapton added the last verse[1]. During the early summer of 1970, Whitlock, living temporarily with Clapton at the time, wrote the song and explains, “'Tell the Truth' I wrote one night after we’d been up for days on one of our marathons. We used to just play and play and play. We would literally play for 3 days without stopping. Anyway, I was up by myself sitting in Eric’s living room when this thing just hit me. I was a young man, gaining experience and getting older; that’s what I was thinking about.” [2] Clapton and Whitlock were both admirers of Sam and Dave; therefore, the song was styled in a “call and response” method with Clapton and Whitlock each singing alternating verses. On June 14, 1970, the song was the first original song by Derek and the Dominos (with Dave Mason in the band as a co-lead guitarist) to be played in concert when the band played at Lyceum Ballroom, then on June 18, 1970, with Dave Mason, Eric Clapton and George Harrison playing guitars, Carl Radle playing bass, Bobby Whitlock on keyboards, and Jim Gordon playing drums, “Tell the Truth” was recorded as a single with “Roll It Over” as the B side at Apple Records. [3]Phil Spector produced the song.
In August, 1970, this song was recorded in the studio in Miami with Tom Dowd as the producer. Dowd and the members of the band struggled with the song until Duane Allman was added to the group after Clapton and members of Derek and the Dominos met Duane Allman in a concert. Immediately after the concert, Duane Allman joined the band in the studio and, soon after, recorded “Tell the Truth”[4]. With Allman’s legendary slide guitar providing a counterpoint to the melody played by Whitlock and Clapton, Dowd and the band were finally satisfied with the song and much preferred the version with Allman rather than the very fast tempo that they played at Apple Records earlier that summer and also preferred to the earlier August, 1970 versions. Soon after, Clapton called Robert Stigwood, record executive of RSO, and told him not to release “Tell the Truth” as a single in October, and the reasoning by the band and Stigwood was that the single would hurt future album sales. [5] The two previous versions of "Tell the Truth" were later released on History of Eric Clapton (1972). Live PerformancesThrough the years, “Tell the Truth” has been a song frequently played at Eric Clapton’s subsequent concerts when he was a solo artist. The concert version of the song has been included on several of Clapton’s albums as well including: the deluxe release of 461 Ocean Boulevard, Crossroads Guitar Festival and Live From Madison Square Garden. With different guitar players accompanying Clapton in concert, the song has been sometimes played with and sometimes without the sliding guitar part that Allman played to augment the song. At the Crossroads Festival of 2007, Derek Trucks plays slide guitar. In the Live from Madison Square Garden concert of 2008, with Steve Winwood, there is no sliding guitar part, but Clapton plays a longer guitar solo than what was originally recorded in the studio. If one were to tally the number of times each song from the Layla and Other Assorted Songs have been played by Clapton in concert, Layla stands out as the song most played from that album. However, “Little Wing” and “Tell the Truth” (along with “Layla”) make up the top three songs played in concert from that album from Derek and the Dominos. References^ Schumacher, Michael, Crossroads: The Life and Music of Eric Clapton, page 143, Hyperion, ISBN 0-7868-6074-X, 1995. ^ Reid, Jan, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs by Derek and the Dominos, page 104,Holtzbrinck Publishers, ISBN 13 978-1-59486-369-1, 2006. ^ Jan Reid, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs by Derek and the Dominos, pp. 103-105. ^ Jan Reid, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs by Derek and the Dominos, p. 123. ^ Jan Reid, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs by Derek and the Dominos, p. 123.
