Mad Dogs & Okies

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All Music Guide - Mark Deming
Veteran session drummer Jamie Oldaker was born and raised in Tulsa, OK, and has a pronounced soft spot for the country, blues, and roots rock sounds of his home state. With that in mind, Oldaker assembled the album Mad Dogs & Okies as a tribute to Oklahoma's musical heritage with an accompanying movie in the works, and thankfully he had the good sense to bring in some of his good friends and jamming buddies from over 30 years in the music business to help take the leads rather than doing it himself. Mad Dogs & Okies would be a cause for celebration if only for the fact it features an actual new song written and performed by the brilliant but reclusive Texas singer ...
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All Music Guide - Mark Deming
Veteran session drummer Jamie Oldaker was born and raised in Tulsa, OK, and has a pronounced soft spot for the country, blues, and roots rock sounds of his home state. With that in mind, Oldaker assembled the album Mad Dogs & Okies as a tribute to Oklahoma's musical heritage with an accompanying movie in the works, and thankfully he had the good sense to bring in some of his good friends and jamming buddies from over 30 years in the music business to help take the leads rather than doing it himself. Mad Dogs & Okies would be a cause for celebration if only for the fact it features an actual new song written and performed by the brilliant but reclusive Texas singer and songwriter Willis Alan Ramsey, and "Sympathy for a Train" is a slice of late-night blues that sounds like it could have been an outtake from Ramsey's superb 1972 album. But that's not all this album has going for it -- Taj Mahal shines on his two cuts including a rollicking version of "Stagger Lee", Vince Gill and Eric Clapton are in laid-back but emphatic form on numbers that outclass their most recent albums, J.J. Cale and Tony Joe White serve their legends well, and Ray Benson and Bonnie Bramlett sound like they're having a whole lot of fun on their selections. Mad Dogs & Okies sounds like an album that was made for the enjoyment of the musicians involved more than anything else and Oldaker is essentially just a sideman on his own record, but the fun is infectious, and the cast lets loose with some fine sounds along the way -- it's a good guess that these sessions were a pretty great party, and Oldaker's musical snapshots of the proceedings are the next best thing to being there.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 8/30/2005
  • Label: Concord Records
  • UPC: 013431226727
  • Catalog Number: 2267
  • Sales rank: 53,527

Tracks

Disc 1
  1. 1 Wait Til Your Daddy Gets Home (4:20)
  2. 2 Positively (3:26)
  3. 3 Don't Let Your Feet Git Cold (3:33)
  4. 4 Sympathy for a Train (6:27)
  5. 5 Promises - Zadig & Marcella (3:03)
  6. 6 Magnolia (3:55)
  7. 7 Make Your Move (3:32)
  8. 8 Shotgun Shack - Wiley Hunt (3:28)
  9. 9 Sending Me Angels (6:41)
  10. 10 Time to Boogie (3:38)
  11. 11 Can't Find My Way Home (4:18)
  12. 12 Stagger Lee (4:02)
  13. 13 Daylight (3:45)
  14. 14 Song for You - Joe & Ellen (3:36)
  15. 15 Motormouth (3:18)
  16. 16 Make Your Move (Revisited) (1:54)
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Album Credits

Performance Credits
Jamie Oldaker Primary Artist, Percussion, Drums
Taj Mahal Electric Guitar, Vocals
Willie Nelson Vocals
J.J. Cale Electric Guitar, Vocals
Peter Frampton Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Vocals
The Steve Pryor Band Electric Guitar, Vocals
Willis Alan Ramsey Acoustic Guitar, Slide Guitar
Bonnie Bramlett Vocals
Tony Joe White Harmonica, Vocals, spanish guitar
Ray Benson Electric Guitar, Vocals
Chuck Blackwell Drums
Joe Bonamassa Slide Guitar
Bekka Bramlett Background Vocals
John Catchings Cello
Eric Clapton Electric Guitar, Vocals
Richard Feldman Acoustic Guitar, Vocals
Ron Getman Electric Guitar, Steel Guitar
Vince Gill Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Vocals
Gary Gilmore Bass
Jim Karstein Percussion, Drums, Tambourine
Viktor Krauss Acoustic Bass
Christine Lakeland Acoustic Guitar
Jimmy Markham Harmonica
Bob Mayo Organ, Synthesizer, Piano
Bill Raffenspeger Bass
John Regan Bass
Walt Richmond Organ, Piano, Clavinet
Dick Sims Organ, fender rhodes
Martin Crutchfield Acoustic Guitar, Dobro, Electric Guitar
Casey Van Beek Bass Guitar
Fats Kaplin Fiddle, Accordion
Shelby Eicher Fiddle, Mandolin
Jim Byfield Electric Guitar
Rocky Frisco Organ
Wiley Hunt Guitar, Vocals
John R. Ferguson Electric Guitar
Brandon Colvin Background Vocals
Ellen Feltsky Vocals
Joe Feltsky Acoustic Guitar
Jenny Gill Background Vocals
Joslyn Keel Background Vocals
Jeremy Kelsey Background Vocals
Jimmy Lee Keltner Drums
Latimer Street Quartet Background Vocals
Dante Pope Background Vocals
Royce Rice Organ
David Spricher Acoustic Bass
Don White Electric Guitar
Technical Credits
Taj Mahal Composer
Willie Nelson Composer
J.J. Cale Composer
Peter Frampton Composer
Lloyd Price Composer
The Steve Pryor Band Composer
Willis Alan Ramsey Composer
Leon Russell Composer
Steve Winwood Composer
Bonnie Bramlett Composer
Tony Joe White Composer
Ray Benson Composer
David Chapman Engineer
Eric Clapton Composer
Bob DiPiero Composer
Richard Feldman Producer, Engineer
Vince Gill Composer
Chad Hailey Engineer
Chet Himes Engineer
Roger Linn Composer
Jamie Oldaker Producer, Liner Notes, Art Direction
Walt Richmond Composer, Producer, Engineer
David Teegarden Producer, Engineer
Tom Weir Engineer
Casey Van Beek Composer
Lisa Sutton Art Direction
Harold Logan Composer
Jim Byfield Composer
Paul T. Kwami Direction
Wiley Hunt Composer
Brando Marius Engineer
Marcella and George Composer
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