Cardiff Rose

Infobox Album
Name = Cardiff Rose
Type = studio
Artist = Roger McGuinn


Released = Start date|1976
Recorded = The Record Plant, Los Angeles
Genre = Rock
Length = 36:06
Label = Columbia
Producer = Mick Ronson
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:j9fqxqq5ldde link]
*Review-Christgau|B-|artist=3315
*"Rolling Stone" (favorable) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/rogermcguinn/albums/album/191696/review/5943299/cardiff_rose link]
Last album = "Roger McGuinn & Band"
(1975)
This album = "Cardiff Rose"
(1976)
Next album = "Thunderbyrd"
(1977)

"Cardiff Rose" is a solo studio album by American singer/songwriter and ex-The Byrds frontman Roger McGuinn, released in 1976. The album, produced by Mick Ronson, was recorded on the heels of Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue 1975 tour in which McGuinn had participated. The album includes a pirate tale "Jolly Roger", a song about King Arthur's "Round Table", and a classic version of Joni Mitchell's "Dreamland".

Track listing

All titles are written by Roger McGuinn and Jacques Levy except where otherwise noted.

ide one

# "Take Me Away" – 3:00
# "Jolly Roger" – 4:56
# "Rock and Roll Time" (McGuinn, Kris Kristofferson, Bobby Neuwirth) – 2:46
# "Friend" (McGuinn) – 2:07
# "Partners in Crime" – 4:52

ide two

# "Up to Me" (Bob Dylan) – 5:36
# "Round Table" – 4:05
# "Pretty Polly" (Trad., arranged and adapted by McGuinn) – 3:17
# "Dreamland" (Joni Mitchell) – 5:20

Bonus tracks on CD reissue

# "Soul Love" (demo recording)
# "Dreamland" (live)

Personnel

*Roger McGuinn – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals
*Mick Ronson – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, recorder, accordion, piano, organ, autoharp, percussion, vocals
*David Mansfield – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, steel guitar, mandolin, violin, banjo, organ, percussion
*Rob Stoner – bass, percussion, vocals
*Howie Wyeth – drums, percussion
*Timmy Schmit – vocals
*Kim Hitchcroft – saxophone