Band Wagon | ||||
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Studio album by Shigeru Suzuki | ||||
Released | May 25, 1975 | |||
Recorded | October 28 – Nov 28, 1974 | |||
Studio | Different Fur in San Francisco and Clover Studio in Hollywood | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Label | Panam/Crown | |||
Producer | Shigeru Suzuki | |||
Shigeru Suzuki chronology | ||||
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Band Wagon is the 1975 debut solo album of Japanese musician Shigeru Suzuki recorded with musicians from Los Angeles. Two singles were released from the album "The Smell of August"/"Snow Express" and "100-Watt Lover", both in 1975.
The solo album followed the disbanding of Happy End and formation of Tin Pan Alley with Haruomi Hosono and Masataka Matsutoya. Suzuki's fellow Happy End bandmate Takashi Matsumoto wrote the lyrics to the songs.
The album features American musicians from notable acts such as Little Feat, Santana and Sly and the Family Stone. Suzuki had previously worked with Lowell George, Bill Payne, Dick Hyde and Kirby Johnson on Happy End's final album.
The track "Woman in the Dunes" was named after the novel and 1964 film of the same name.
All tracks written by Takashi Matsumoto and Shigeru Suzuki, except tracks 4 and 7, written solely by Suzuki.
According to 2008 re-release CD booklet: