BRYAN FERRY
''ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER PLACE''
JULY 1974
41:58
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1 /The "In" Crowd
Billy Page/4:36
2 /Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Otto Harbach / Jerome Kern/2:53
3 /Walk a Mile in My Shoes
Joe South/4:44
4 /Funny How Time Slips Away
Willie Nelson/3:31
5 /You Are My Sunshine
Jimmie Davis / Charles Mitchell/6:47
6 /(What A) Wonderful World
Lou Adler / Herb Alpert / Sam Cooke/2:55
7 /It Ain't Me Babe
Bob Dylan/3:57
8 /Finger Poppin'
Ike Turner/3:34
9 /Help Me Make It Through the Night
Fred Foster / Kris Kristofferson/4:15
10 /Another Time, Another Place
Bryan Ferry/4:46
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Vicki Brown /Vocals
Tony Carr /Percussion
Helen Chappelle /Choir/Chorus, Vocals
Tony Charles
Don Cirilo /Vocals
Paul Cosh
Geoff Daley
Martin Drover /Horn
Bob Efford
Bryan Ferry /Harmonica, Keyboards, Organ, Piano, Vocals
Martyn Ford /Brass Arrangement
Malcolm Griffiths
Jimmy Hastings /Wind
Henry Lowther /Horn, Trumpet
Chris Mercer /Sax (Tenor)
Davy O'List /Guitar
Ann Odell /String Arrangements
Ruan O'Lochlainn /Sax (Alto)
Morris Pert /Percussion
John Porter /Bass Guitar
John Punter /Drums
Chris Pyne /Trombone
Alf Reece
Peter Robinson /Keyboards
Ronnie Ross
Bruce Rowland /Drums
Bruce Rowlands
Barry St. John /Choir/Chorus, Vocals
Steve Saunders
Alan Skidmore
Winstone Stone
Liza Strike /Choir/Chorus, Vocals
Paul Thompson /Drums
Mark Warner
John Wetton /Bass, Fiddle, Violin
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REVIEW/AMG
Ned Raggett
Another Time, Another Place isn't as immediately thrilling as Ferry's solo debut, but still is a great listen. The same core band that backed Ferry up on the earlier record stays more or less in place here. If, like Roxy over the years, this collection is a touch less frenetic at points in comparison to Ferry's earlier solo stab, the opening blast through "The 'In' Crowd" doesn't show it. Porter's guitar rips along as intensely as Phil Manzanera's can, and the whole thing makes Dobie Gray's original take seem pretty tame. Beyond that, things will be familiar to anyone who's heard These Foolish Things -- same general atmosphere, same overall approach of Ferry taking classic originals and putting his own proto-lounge-lizard stamp on them, mixing energetic versions with far calmer ones. A very intriguing development is his inclusion of efforts from up-and-coming country writers and singers -- thus, a loud and groovy cover of "Funny How Time Slips Away" by Willie Nelson and another of Kris Kristofferson's "Help Me Make It Through the Night." Other country atmospheres slip in here and there via another nod to Elvis ("Walk a Mile in My Shoes," originally by Joe South), while other classics get tapped with versions of "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and Sam Cooke's "(What A) Wonderful World." The album as a whole feels a touch more formal than its predecessor, but Ferry and company, plus various brass and string sections, turn on the showiness enough to make it all fun. A harbringer of solo albums to come appears at end -- the title track, a Ferry original.
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BIOGRAPHY/AMG
Jason Ankeny
While his tenure as the frontman for the legendary Roxy Music remained his towering achievement, singer Bryan Ferry also carved out a successful solo career that continued in the lush, sophisticated manner perfected on the group's final records. Born September 26, 1945, in Washington, England, Ferry, the son of a coal miner, began his musical career as a singer with the rock outfit the Banshees while studying art at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne under pop conceptualist Richard Hamilton. He later joined the Gas Board, a soul group featuring bassist Graham Simpson; in 1970, Ferry and Simpson formed Roxy Music.
Within a few years, Roxy Music had become phenomenally successful, affording Ferry the opportunity to cut his first solo LP in 1973. Far removed from the group's arty glam rock, These Foolish Things established the path that all of Ferry's solo work -- as well as the final Roxy Music records -- would take, focusing on elegant synth pop interpretations of '60s hits like Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall," the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil," and the Beatles' "You Won't See Me," all rendered in the singer's distinct, coolly dramatic manner.
Roxy Music remained Ferry's primary focus, but in 1974 he returned with a second solo effort, Another Time, Another Place, another collection of covers ranging from "You Are My Sunshine" to "It Ain't Me, Babe" to "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes." His third venture, 1976's Let's Stick Together, featured remixed, remade, and remodeled versions of Roxy Music hits as well as the usual assortment of covers. Released in 1977, In Your Mind was Ferry's first collection of completely original material; the following year's The Bride Stripped Bare, a work inspired by his broken romance with model Jerry Hall, split evenly between new songs and covers.
Ferry did not record another solo album until 1985's Boys and Girls, a sleek, seamless effort that was his first "official" solo release following the Roxy breakup. For 1987's Bete Noire, he was joined by former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr on the shimmering "The Right Stuff," and notched his only U.S. Top 40 hit with "Kiss and Tell." Another covers collection, Taxi, followed in 1993; Mamouna, an LP of originals, appeared a year later, and in 1999 Ferry returned with a collection of standards, As Time Goes By. After a brief tour in support of As Time Goes By, there were rumors of a Roxy Music reunion. The next summer, the practically unimaginable came true when Ferry joined Andy Mackay and Phil Manzanera for a tour of Europe and the U.S. It was a celebration of hits, and the band's first jaunt out in more than a decade.
In summer 2002, Ferry returned to his solo career for the electrifying Frantic. Dylanesque, a set of Bob Dylan covers, followed in 2007, featuring assistance from several longtime associates (including Brian Eno, Chris Spedding, Paul Carrack, and Robin Trower). Ferry signed with the Astralwerks imprint for the release of 2010's Olympia. In 2012, he assembled the Bryan Ferry Orchestra and recorded The Jazz Age. This completely instrumental album features his band re-recording some of his biggest hits in a 1920s jazz style.
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WEBSITE
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''ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER PLACE''
JULY 1974
41:58
**********
1 /The "In" Crowd
Billy Page/4:36
2 /Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Otto Harbach / Jerome Kern/2:53
3 /Walk a Mile in My Shoes
Joe South/4:44
4 /Funny How Time Slips Away
Willie Nelson/3:31
5 /You Are My Sunshine
Jimmie Davis / Charles Mitchell/6:47
6 /(What A) Wonderful World
Lou Adler / Herb Alpert / Sam Cooke/2:55
7 /It Ain't Me Babe
Bob Dylan/3:57
8 /Finger Poppin'
Ike Turner/3:34
9 /Help Me Make It Through the Night
Fred Foster / Kris Kristofferson/4:15
10 /Another Time, Another Place
Bryan Ferry/4:46
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Vicki Brown /Vocals
Tony Carr /Percussion
Helen Chappelle /Choir/Chorus, Vocals
Tony Charles
Don Cirilo /Vocals
Paul Cosh
Geoff Daley
Martin Drover /Horn
Bob Efford
Bryan Ferry /Harmonica, Keyboards, Organ, Piano, Vocals
Martyn Ford /Brass Arrangement
Malcolm Griffiths
Jimmy Hastings /Wind
Henry Lowther /Horn, Trumpet
Chris Mercer /Sax (Tenor)
Davy O'List /Guitar
Ann Odell /String Arrangements
Ruan O'Lochlainn /Sax (Alto)
Morris Pert /Percussion
John Porter /Bass Guitar
John Punter /Drums
Chris Pyne /Trombone
Alf Reece
Peter Robinson /Keyboards
Ronnie Ross
Bruce Rowland /Drums
Bruce Rowlands
Barry St. John /Choir/Chorus, Vocals
Steve Saunders
Alan Skidmore
Winstone Stone
Liza Strike /Choir/Chorus, Vocals
Paul Thompson /Drums
Mark Warner
John Wetton /Bass, Fiddle, Violin
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REVIEW/AMG
Ned Raggett
Another Time, Another Place isn't as immediately thrilling as Ferry's solo debut, but still is a great listen. The same core band that backed Ferry up on the earlier record stays more or less in place here. If, like Roxy over the years, this collection is a touch less frenetic at points in comparison to Ferry's earlier solo stab, the opening blast through "The 'In' Crowd" doesn't show it. Porter's guitar rips along as intensely as Phil Manzanera's can, and the whole thing makes Dobie Gray's original take seem pretty tame. Beyond that, things will be familiar to anyone who's heard These Foolish Things -- same general atmosphere, same overall approach of Ferry taking classic originals and putting his own proto-lounge-lizard stamp on them, mixing energetic versions with far calmer ones. A very intriguing development is his inclusion of efforts from up-and-coming country writers and singers -- thus, a loud and groovy cover of "Funny How Time Slips Away" by Willie Nelson and another of Kris Kristofferson's "Help Me Make It Through the Night." Other country atmospheres slip in here and there via another nod to Elvis ("Walk a Mile in My Shoes," originally by Joe South), while other classics get tapped with versions of "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and Sam Cooke's "(What A) Wonderful World." The album as a whole feels a touch more formal than its predecessor, but Ferry and company, plus various brass and string sections, turn on the showiness enough to make it all fun. A harbringer of solo albums to come appears at end -- the title track, a Ferry original.
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BIOGRAPHY/AMG
Jason Ankeny
While his tenure as the frontman for the legendary Roxy Music remained his towering achievement, singer Bryan Ferry also carved out a successful solo career that continued in the lush, sophisticated manner perfected on the group's final records. Born September 26, 1945, in Washington, England, Ferry, the son of a coal miner, began his musical career as a singer with the rock outfit the Banshees while studying art at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne under pop conceptualist Richard Hamilton. He later joined the Gas Board, a soul group featuring bassist Graham Simpson; in 1970, Ferry and Simpson formed Roxy Music.
Within a few years, Roxy Music had become phenomenally successful, affording Ferry the opportunity to cut his first solo LP in 1973. Far removed from the group's arty glam rock, These Foolish Things established the path that all of Ferry's solo work -- as well as the final Roxy Music records -- would take, focusing on elegant synth pop interpretations of '60s hits like Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall," the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil," and the Beatles' "You Won't See Me," all rendered in the singer's distinct, coolly dramatic manner.
Roxy Music remained Ferry's primary focus, but in 1974 he returned with a second solo effort, Another Time, Another Place, another collection of covers ranging from "You Are My Sunshine" to "It Ain't Me, Babe" to "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes." His third venture, 1976's Let's Stick Together, featured remixed, remade, and remodeled versions of Roxy Music hits as well as the usual assortment of covers. Released in 1977, In Your Mind was Ferry's first collection of completely original material; the following year's The Bride Stripped Bare, a work inspired by his broken romance with model Jerry Hall, split evenly between new songs and covers.
Ferry did not record another solo album until 1985's Boys and Girls, a sleek, seamless effort that was his first "official" solo release following the Roxy breakup. For 1987's Bete Noire, he was joined by former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr on the shimmering "The Right Stuff," and notched his only U.S. Top 40 hit with "Kiss and Tell." Another covers collection, Taxi, followed in 1993; Mamouna, an LP of originals, appeared a year later, and in 1999 Ferry returned with a collection of standards, As Time Goes By. After a brief tour in support of As Time Goes By, there were rumors of a Roxy Music reunion. The next summer, the practically unimaginable came true when Ferry joined Andy Mackay and Phil Manzanera for a tour of Europe and the U.S. It was a celebration of hits, and the band's first jaunt out in more than a decade.
In summer 2002, Ferry returned to his solo career for the electrifying Frantic. Dylanesque, a set of Bob Dylan covers, followed in 2007, featuring assistance from several longtime associates (including Brian Eno, Chris Spedding, Paul Carrack, and Robin Trower). Ferry signed with the Astralwerks imprint for the release of 2010's Olympia. In 2012, he assembled the Bryan Ferry Orchestra and recorded The Jazz Age. This completely instrumental album features his band re-recording some of his biggest hits in a 1920s jazz style.
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WEBSITE
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TO THE TOP
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Thanks for all the Roxy Music & Bryan Ferry. Much appreciated!
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