''New Routes'' is an album by Scottish singer

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recorded between 10 September and 2 October 1969 at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, one of that facility's earliest recordings, for a 16 January 1970 release. ''New Routes'', the début album release by Lulu on

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, was produced by the label's top Atlantic Records production team:

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and Jerry Wexler. Wexler had been interested in Lulu ever since 1964, when his business associate

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had recorded her on "

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". Her 1969 signing to Atlantic's

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label was facilitated by Lulu's becoming engaged to

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of Atco's top musical artists, the Bee Gees. ''New Routes'' was preceded by the October 1969 release of the track "

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", which gradually reached 22 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in February 1970. ''New Routes'' debuted on ''Billboard'' 200 chart in February, peaking at 88. The album produced no further A-sides; in May 1970 the track "Where's Eddie" was utilized to back "Hum a Song (From Your Heart)", the advance single from the ''

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'' album.

Track listing

Side one

Marley Purt Drive "Marley Purt Drive" is a song recorded by the Bee Gees, It was written by Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb and released in March 1969 on the album '' Odessa''. It was released in stereo in the United States in January and its mono version was released ...

" (

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, Robin Gibb,

) - 3:23 #"In the Morning" (Barry Gibb) - 3:30 #"People in Love" (

Eddie Hinton Eddie Hinton (15 June 1944 – 28 July 1995) was an American songwriter and session musician, best known for his work with soul music and R&B singers. He played lead guitar for Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section from 1969 to 1971 and after leaving th ...

, Grady Smith) - 2:47 #"After All (I Live My Life)" (Jim Doris,

Frankie Miller Francis John Miller (born 2 November 1949) is a Scottish rock singer-songwriter and actor. Miller wrote for and performed with many recording artists and is best known for his 1977 album ''Full House'', the singles "Be Good To Yourself", " D ...

) - 3:17 #" Feelin' Alright" (

Dave Mason David Thomas Mason (born 10 May 1946) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist from Worcester, who first found fame with the rock band Traffic. Over the course of his career, Mason has played and recorded with many notable pop and rock mu ...

) - 3:05

Side two

#"Dirty Old Man" ( Delaney Bramlett, Mac Davis) - 2:22 #"

" (Jim Doris) - 2:46 #"Is That You Love" (Jackie Avery, John Farris) - 2:44 #" Mr. Bojangles" (

Jerry Jeff Walker Jerry Jeff Walker (born Ronald Clyde Crosby; March 16, 1942 – October 23, 2020) was an American country music and folk singer-songwriter. He was a leading figure in the progressive country and outlaw country music movement. He was bes ...

) - 3:10 #"Where's Eddie" (

Donnie Fritts Donald Ray Fritts (November 8, 1942 – August 27, 2019) was an American session musician and songwriter. A recording artist in his own right, he was Kris Kristofferson's keyboardist for over forty years. In 2008, he was inducted into the Alab ...

, Eddie Hinton) - 3:08 #"Sweep Around Your Own Back Door" (Fran Robins) - 2:41

Personnel

Duane Allman Howard Duane Allman (November 20, 1946 – October 29, 1971) was an American rock guitarist, session musician, and the founder and original leader of the Allman Brothers Band, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame i ...

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

on side one: 1, 4 and side two: 1,4, 6 *

Barry Beckett Barry Edward Beckett (February 4, 1943 – June 10, 2009) was an American keyboardist, session musician, record producer, and studio founder. He is best known for his work with David Hood, Jimmy Johnson, and Roger Hawkins, his bandmates in ...

- keyboards *

Jim Dickinson James Luther Dickinson (November 15, 1941 – August 15, 2009) was an American record producer, pianist, and singer who fronted, among others, the band Mud Boy and the Neutrons, based in Memphis, Tennessee. Biography Dickinson was born in Li ...

- guitar,

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

- producer *

Cornell Dupree Cornell Luther Dupree (December 19, 1942 – May 8, 2011) was an American jazz and R&B guitarist. He worked at various times with Aretha Franklin, Bill Withers, Donny Hathaway, King Curtis and Steve Gadd, appeared on David Letterman,

, Charlie Freeman,

- guitar *Martin Greene -

engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the limit ...

* David Hood, Tommy McClure -

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

* Roger Hawkins - drums * Jimmy Johnson - engineer, guitar *

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

(There are no backing vocals on this album). *

- producer *

Michael Utley Michael Edward Utley is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer for Jimmy Buffett's Coral Reefer Band. He is the musical director of the band. Born in Blytheville in Mississippi County, Arkansas, he graduated from the Univer ...

- organ * Jerry Wexler - producer *Stephen Paley - photography

References

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