''Brujo'' is an album by the American

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band

New Riders of the Purple Sage New Riders of the Purple Sage is an American country rock band. The group emerged from the psychedelic rock scene in San Francisco in 1969 and its original lineup included several members of the Grateful Dead. The band is sometimes referred to ...

. It is their fifth studio album, and their sixth album overall. It was recorded in 1974 and released that same year by

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. ''Brujo'' was the first New Riders album to feature ex-

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Skip Battin Clyde "Skip" Battin (February 18, 1934 – July 6, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter, bassist, performer, and recording artist. He was a member of the Byrds, the New Riders of the Purple Sage, and the Flying Burrito Brothers. Εarly life ...

. Battin had replaced

Dave Torbert David Edwin Torbert (June 7, 1948 – December 7, 1982) was a Bay Area musician, best known for his associations with the Grateful Dead and the New Riders of the Purple Sage. He played bass for the latter group, replacing Phil Lesh during the ses ...

as the New Riders'

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player after Torbert left to form Kingfish. One single was released in conjunction with the album—"You Angel You"/"Parson Brown".

Track listing

#"Old Man Noll" ( John Dawson) – 2:44 #"Ashes of Love" (

Jack Anglin Jack Anglin (May 13, 1916 – March 8, 1963) was an American country music singer best known as a member of the Anglin Brothers, and later Johnnie & Jack with Johnnie Wright. Younger Years Anglin was born on a farm in Franklin, Tennessee to ...

Johnnie Wright Johnnie Robert Wright Jr. (May 13, 1914 – September 27, 2011) was an American country music singer-songwriter, who spent much of his career working with Jack Anglin as the popular duo Johnnie & Jack, and was also the husband of country music ...

) – 2:14 #"You Angel You" (

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) – 2:43 #"Instant Armadillo Blues" (Dawson) – 2:52 #"Workingman's Woman" (

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, Don Goodman) – 2:44 #"On the Amazon" (

Kim Fowley Kim Vincent Fowley (July 21, 1939 – January 15, 2015) was an American record producer, songwriter and musician who was behind a string of novelty and cult pop rock singles in the 1960s, and managed the Runaways in the 1970s. He has been ...

) – 3:34 #"Big Wheels" (Battin, Fowley) – 3:00 #"Singing Cowboy" (Battin, Fowley) – 3:57 #"Crooked Judge" ( Robert Hunter, David Nelson) – 2:59 #"Parson Brown" (Dawson) – 3:06 #"Neon Rose" (Battin, Fowley) – 4:24

Personnel

New Riders of the Purple Sage

* John Dawson - guitar, vocals * David Nelson - guitar, mandolin, vocals *

Spencer Dryden Spencer Charles Dryden (April 7, 1938 – January 11, 2005) was an American musician best known as the drummer for Jefferson Airplane and New Riders of the Purple Sage. He also played with Dinosaurs, and the Ashes (later known as the Peanut Butt ...

- drums, vocals *

- bass, vocals *

Buddy Cage Buddy Cage (February 18, 1946 – February 5, 2020) was an American pedal steel guitarist, best known as a longtime member of the New Riders of the Purple Sage.

- steel guitar

Guest musicians

Neil Larsen Neil Larsen (born August 7, 1948) is an American jazz keyboardist, musical arranger and composer. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and grew up in Sarasota, Florida before relocating to New York and then, in 1977, Los Angeles. Early life Larsen was ...

- keyboards *

Mark Naftalin Mark Naftalin (born August 2, 1944) is an American blues keyboardist and record producer. He appears on the first five albums by Paul Butterfield Blues Band in the mid 1960s as a band member, and as such was inducted into the Rock and Roll Ha ...

- keyboards *Ed Freeman - mellotron *Dan Patiris - English horn *

Armando Peraza Armando Peraza (May 30, 1924 – April 14, 2014) was a Cuban Latin jazz percussionist and a member of the rock band Santana. Peraza played congas, bongos, and timbales. Biography Early life Born in Lawton Batista, Havana, Cuba in 1924 (althou ...

- bongos

Production

*Producer: Ed Freeman *Recording Engineer: Bob Edwards/Kurt Kinzel *Art Direction: n/a *Photography: Urve Kuusik *Artwork:

Gage Taylor Gage Taylor (1942 – 2000) was a visionary artist known for his psychedelic-inspired landscapes. Art critic Thomas Albright wrote, "Taylor's landscape fantasies combined profuse detail with heavier, painterly surfaces and achieved a 'naive' and n ...

References

{{Authority control 1974 albums Columbia Records albums New Riders of the Purple Sage albums