Cristo Redentor

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Mandel's debut remains his best early work, introducing an accomplished blues-rock guitarist capable of producing smooth, fluid lines and a variety of tasteful distortion and buzzing via an assortment of tone pedals and customized amplifiers. He augmented his flash with an adventurous appetite for orchestrated, quasi-classical strings (especially in the eerie symphonic title cut), jazz-blues-rock fusion in the mold of The Electric Flag (as on "Before Six"), and even a bit of country in the presence of top steel guitarist Pete Drake. Available in its entirety on the reissue compilation The Mercury Years. -- Richie Unterberger (AMG) -- Track listing 01 – Christo Redentor 02 – Before Six 03 – The Lark 04 – Snake 05 – Long Wait 06 – Wade in the Water 07 – Lights Out 08 – Bradley’s Barn 09 – You Can’t Tell Me 10 – Nashville 1 A.M. ________________________________ Credits James W. Alexander -- Composer Jacqueline May Allen -- Vocals Graham Bond -- Keyboards Kenny Buttrey -- Drums Carter Collins -- Conductor Sam Cooke -- Composer Nick DeCaro -- Keyboards Pete Drake -- Guitar (Steel) Larry Easter -- Saxophone Larry Frazier -- Composer Barry Goldberg -- Composer, Keyboards Catherine Gotthoffer -- Harp Fast Eddie Hoh -- Drums Bob Jones -- Guitar Abe "Voco" Kesh -- Composer Harvey Mandel -- Composer, Guitar Chip Martin -- Guitar Stephen Miller -- Keyboards Bob Moore -- Bass Charlie Musselwhite -- Harmonica Duke Pearson -- Composer Armando Peraza -- Conductor Hargus "Pig" Robbins --

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