I Stand Alone (Al Kooper album)

Infobox Album |
Name = I Stand Alone
Type = Studio album
Artist = Al Kooper


Released = 1968
Recorded = 1968
Genre = Rock
Length = 41:24
Label = Columbia
Producer = Al Kooper
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:6kqog4fttv8z link]
Last album =
This album = "I Stand Alone"
(1968)
Next album = "You Never Know Who Your Friends Are"
(1969)

"I Stand Alone" is the title of New York City based singer-songwriter Al Kooper's 1968 début album, issued on Columbia Records, recorded after his monumentally successful collaboration with Michael Bloomfield and Stephen Stills, "Super Session".

An eclectic mix of country, soul, blues and rock with a dose of psychedelics mixed throughout, it is a continuation of "Super Session" in its mix of disparate covers from the likes of Bill Monroe, Harry Nilsson and Traffic and originals running the gamut of feelings.

Unlike that album, however, with the spotlight on Kooper alone and Kooper's alternate utilization of orchestras and professional Nashville studio musicians, the tracks are more focused, all within two and five minutes.

Tracks

All tracks composed by Al Kooper; except where indicated
# "Overture" – 4:39
# "I Stand Alone" – 3:37
# "Camille" (Kooper, Tony Powers) – 2:54
# "One" (Harry Nilsson) – 2:53
# "Coloured Rain" (Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood) – 3:01
# "Soft Landing on the Moon" – 3:58
# "I Can Love A Woman" – 3:28
# "Blue Moon of Kentucky" (Bill Monroe) – 2:14
# "Toe Hold" (Isaac Hayes, David Porter) – 3:53
# "Right Now For You" – 2:33
# "Hey, Western Union Man" (Jerry Butler, Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff – 3:43
# "Song and Dance for the Unborn, Frightened Child" – 4:31

Personnel

*Al Kooper: piano, organ, ondioline, guitars, vocals, orchestrations
*Wayne Moss, Jerry Kennedy and "Big" Charlie Daniels: guitar
*Charlie McCoy: electric bass, orchestrations
*Ken Buttrey: drums
*The Blossoms: backing vocal
*Don Ellis and Charlie Calello: orchestrations