My Top 20 albums for 1976 N0 9

Its Chicken Skin Music by Ry Cooder'
Blues Rock
Year: 1976
Tracklist
The Bourgeois Blues 3:22
I Got Mine 4:28
Always Lift Him Up 6:01
He'll Have To Go 5:07
Smack Dab In The Middle 3:18
Stand By Me 3:38
Yellow Roses 6:11
Chloe 3:00
Goodnight Irene 4:32

Musicians

George Bohanon - horn arrangement, baritone horn
Oscar Brashear - cornet
Red Callender - upright bass
Ry Cooder - bajo sexto, mandola, bottleneck guitar, French accordion, electric guitar, slack-key guitar, tiple, Hawaiian guitar, vocals
Chris Ethridge - bass guitar
Terry Evans - Cliff Givens - Laurence Fishburne - Herman E. Johnson - vocals
Hugo Gonzales - bajo sexto
Milt Holland - percussion, drums
Atta Isaacs - slack-key and acoustic guitar
Fred Jackson Jr. - tenor saxophone
Flaco Jiménez - accordion
Jim Keltner - drums
Bobby King - vocals
Henry Ojeda - bass
Gabby Pahinui - steel guitar, vocals
Benny Powell - trombone
Pat Rizzo - alto saxophone
Russ Titelman - bajo sexto, vocals

Technical
Ry Cooder - producer
Judy Maizel, Trudy Portch - production coordination
Lee Herschberg - engineer, mixing Lloyd Cruft - engineer
Bobby Hata, John Neal - assistant engineers Chet Himes, John Ingle - engineering
Kenny Price - album cover, design and painting
Susan Titelman - photography Noel Newbolt - production assistance

"Smack Dab In The Middle"

[Verse 1]
Pick me a town in any clime
People like a rockin' time
Stay awake both day and night
And everybody's feeling good and right
Then throw me
[Chorus] Smack dab in the middle x3
Well, let me rock and roll to satisfy my soul
[Verse 2]
I want ten Cadillacs and a diamond mill
Ten suits of clothes all dressed to kill
Ten room house and a barbecue
And-a fifty chicks not over twenty-two And I'm
[Chorus] Smack dab in the middle (I like to be)
Smack dab in the middle x2 Well, let me rock and roll to satisfy my soul
[Verse 3]
I want a lotta bread and-a gangs of meat
Oodles of butter and-a something sweet
Gallons of coffee to wash it down
And buy carbonated soda by the pound
[Chorus]
Smack dab in the middle x3 Well, let me rock and roll to satisfy my soul
[Verse 4]
I want a big jazz band, a hundred ballet girls
A street that's paved with natural pearl
Bring me a wagon load of bonds and stocks
And then open up the door to Fort Knox
Then throw me
[Chorus] Smack dab in the middle x3 Well, let me rock and roll to satisfy my soul
[Outro] Soul, (smack) soul, (dab) soul (Smack dab) soul x5