Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy Elton John

• 1 Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy 05:46
• 2 Tower Of Babel 04:29
• 3 Bitter Fingers 04:34
• 4 Tell Me When The Whistle Blows 04:21
• 5 Someone Saved My Life Tonight 06:46
• 6 (Gotta Get A) Meal Ticket 04:02
• 7 Better Off Dead 02:38
• 8 Writing 03:41
• 9 We All Fall In Love Sometimes 04:17
• 10 Curtains 06:23
• 11 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds 06:18
• 12 One Day At A Time 03:50
• 13 Philadelphia Freedom 05:26
• Total Runtime 01:02:31

Info for Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy

Another ambitious concept album, another John/Taupin masterpiece, another #1. Along with the smash Someone Saved My Life Tonight and the rest of the 1975 LP, this CD adds three bonus cuts including the #1s Philadelphia Freedom and Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds !

'Sitting atop the charts in 1975, Elton John and Bernie Taupin recalled their rise to power in Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, their first explicitly conceptual effort since Tumbleweed Connection. It's no coincidence that it's their best album since then, showcasing each at the peak of his power, as John crafts supple, elastic, versatile pop and Taupin's inscrutable wordplay is evocative, even moving. What's best about the record is that it works best of a piece -- although it entered the charts at number one, this only had one huge hit in 'Someone Saved My Life Tonight,' which sounds even better here, since it tidily fits into the musical and lyrical themes. And although the musical skill on display here is dazzling, as it bounces between country and hard rock within the same song, this is certainly a grower. The album needs time to reveal its treasures, but once it does, it rivals Tumbleweed in terms of sheer consistency and eclipses it in scope, capturing John and Taupin at a pinnacle. They collapsed in hubris and excess not long afterward -- Rock of the Westies, which followed just months later is as scattered as this is focused -- but this remains a testament to the strengths of their creative partnership.' (Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AMG)

Elton John, acoustic and electric pianos, clavinet, mellotron, synthesizer, harpsichord
Davey Johnstone, acoustic, electric and Leslie guitars; mandolin, piano on 'Writing', backing vocals
Dee Murray, bass, backing vocals
Nigel Olsson, drums, backing vocals
Ray Cooper, percussion
Additional musicians:
David Hentschel, ARP synthesizer on tracks 9 and 10
Gene Page, orchestral arrangement on track 4

Recorded June–July 1974, Caribou Ranch, Nederland, Colorado
Engineered by Jeff Guercio
Produced by Gus Dudgeon

Digitally remastered

Ranked #158 in Rolling Stone's '500 Greatest Albums Of All Time'

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