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, led by Peter Green. Released in 2001, this was their sixth album. Green was the founder of

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and a member of that group from 1967–70, before a sporadic solo career during the late 1970s and early 1980s. ''Time Traders'' marked a departure from the group's prior recordings of

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songs, and the tracks on this album were all original compositions by the band members, including two by Green that had been originally recorded three decades previously. "Underway" was an instrumental track from Fleetwood Mac's 1969 album, ''

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'', and "Uganda Woman" was the b-side of a single that Green and his Splinter Group colleague

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had released in January 1972. "Underway" features

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on guitar; White had previously performed on Green's ''

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'' album in 1979.Sleeve notes for ''

'', PVK Records, 1979

Track listing

#"Until the Well Runs Dry" ( Roger Cotton) – 5:19 #"Real World" (Cotton) – 6:16 #"Running After You" (Peter Stroud) – 4:46 #"Shadow on My Door" (

) – 5:35 #"Lies" (Cotton) – 4:43 #"Down the Road of Temptation" (Stroud) – 4:16 #"Downsize Blues (Repossess My Body)" (Watson) – 3:47 #"Feeling Good" (Cotton) – 4:17 #"Time Keeps Slipping Away" (Stroud) – 4:44 #"Wild Dogs" (Watson) – 5:09 #"Home" (Stroud) – 5:17 #"Underway" ( Peter Green) – 4:48 #"Uganda Woman" (Watson) – 5:30

Personnel

Peter Green Splinter Group

* Peter Green –

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 string ...

harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica in ...

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 witho ...

– guitar, vocals * Roger Cotton – 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 musica ...

Hammond C-3 organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs generate ...

* Pete Stroud –

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 s ...

* Larry Tolfree –

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair of matching drumsticks ...

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

Additional musicians

– guitar (track 12) * Tim Riggins –

trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrat ...

, horn arrangements * Martin Harmon –

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of Single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed (mouthpi ...

* Derek Nash – saxophone * Sid Gauld –

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standar ...

flugelhorn The flugelhorn (), also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet but has a wider, more conical bore. Like trumpets and cornets, most flugelhorns are pitched in B, though some ...

* Joanne Ramsey, Louise Kenny, Owen Parker –

backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are u ...

(track 13)

Technical

* Peter Green Splinter Group –

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* Matthew Ollivier –

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 l ...

* Stuart Green – design * Monty Strikes –

photography Photography is the visual art, art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It i ...

References

{{Authority control 2001 albums Peter Green Splinter Group albums