LYNNE HUGHES

10611/10737
artist: LYNNE HUGHES
label: FONTANA SRF 67611
title: FREEWAY GYPSY
release: 1969, USA, LP
A-side:
  1. Bad Dream (2:22)
    (L. J. Baron - D. Randell)
  2. Rose Of Woe (3:46)
    (K. Doyle - R. Olsen)
  3. Night Life (3:11)
    (Nelson - Buskirk - Breland)
  4. Never Stop A Dream (2:47)
    (D. Bennett)
  5. Gypsy Good Time (4:07)
    (N. Gravenitis)
B-side:
  1. Freeway Gypsy (3:32)
    (T. Deeps - D. Randell)
  2. Rags & Old Iron (3:50)
    (O. Brown, Jr. - N. Curtis)
  3. My Man Is Gone (3:22)
    (T. Deeps - D. Randell)
  4. And When I Die (4:56)
    (L. Nyro)
  5. It Didn't Even Bring Me Down (3:35)
    (D. Sahm - F. Morin - M. Ferreo)
credits:

Denny Randell - producer
Mike Melvoin - arranger, keyboard
Lynne Hughes - vocals
Mike Dacy - guitar, sitar, dobro
Louie Shelton - 6 & 12 string guitar
Therutius Deeps - guitar
Jerry Scheff - bass
Joe Osbourn - bass
Hall Blaine - drums
Gary Coleman - percussion
Buddy Childers - trumpet, flugelhorn
Tony Terran - trumpet, flugelhorn
Ollie Mitchell - trumpet, flugelhorn
Joe Burnett - trumpet, flugelhorn
Chuck Finley - flugelhorn
Bob Brookmeyer - trombone
Bob Enevoldsen - trombone
Dick Leaf - trombone
Don Menza - saxophone
Jim Horn - saxophone
Plas Johnson - saxophone
Bob Hardaway - saxophone
Kim Richmond - saxophone

vocal background on A4:
Don Bennett, Joe Reed, Billy Woodruff, Therutius Deeps

Recorded at Amigo Studios, North Hollywood
Hank Cicalo - recording & mixing engineer
Chan Laughlin - management

Baron Wolman - cover photo
liner notes: When it was in coffee houses, Lynne Hughes was around Seattle and Berkley with a Martin guitar and a voice that people remembered. When it was in ballroom rock, Lynne was in San Francisco singing with the Charlatans and later with her own group, TONGUE & GROOVE.  Now it's on the road with America's new music nomads, in festivals and mountain camps, and Lynne has made a record in Hollywood while the truck refits for Spring.
Denny Randell (incredible shinking production) and Michael Melvoin (arranger - keyboard) built this album for Lynne out of the live creation that fine musicians find together on good dates. West Coast rock underlies the cool school brass progressions to build a totally new song setting for Lynne's sound.
It was a beautiful groove to make this record. It is a great record to listen to, again, and maybe much later, at night, when the truck is parked...................
comment #1: In April 1969 Lynne Hughes has toured with the SIR DOUGLAS QUINTET. At that moment she was the singer in TONGUE & GROOVE. Both groups were a part of the "Flying Bear Medicine Show".
See for more details:
1969-04-17 USA - Irvine, CA - University of California
1969-04-18 USA - Pomona, CA - California State Polytechnic University
1969-04-27 USA - San Fernando, CA - San Fernando Valley State College
comment #2: It is likely that Lynne heard Doug's original version of "And It Didn't Even Bring Me Down" during this tour before she covered the song on this album.