By Russell Schmidt
PRIVATE PRESS
1980
STEREO
Booking information, additional albums, tapes or published music, availavle through:
RS MUSIC
P.O. Box 80126
St. Paul, Minnesota 55108
CREDITS:
Producer
STEVE GAMBLE
Edify Productions, Inc.
Arranger
DAN PERRY
Engineer
PAUL MARTINSON
Recorded & Mastered at
SOUND 80 STUDIOS
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Mastering Engineer
BOB BERGLUND
Vocal
RUSSELL SCHMIDT
Acoustic Guitars
RUSSELL SCHMIDT & DAN PERRY
Bass
BILLY PETERSON
Keyboards
BILL BARBER
Percussion
GLEN SWANSON
Recorder, Flute & Sax
DAVE KARR
Violins
BRUCE ALLARD
ROBERT ZELNICK
HANLEY DAWS
ROMUALD ZECO
Church Bass
SUSAN ALLARD
Trumpet
BRUCE ALLARD
Fiddle
PAUL REISSNER
Banjo
JOE WOLNEY
Synthesizer
STEVE GILBERTSON
Electric Guitar
DONNY WOODHULL
Background Vocals
RUSSELL SCHMIDT
DAN PERRY
STEVE GAMBLE
MICHAEL MONROE
CAROL ZIMMERMAN
Copyright 1980 RS Music
All rights reserved.
Printed in the U.S.A.
SIDE A:
LAY YOUR CARDS DOWN (Russell Schmidt)
FOLLOW THE WIND (Russell Schmidt)
DREAM LAND (Russell Schmidt)
DESPERADO(Don Henley & Glenn Frey)
FLYING CLOUD (Russell Schmidt)
SIMPLE SONG (Russell Schmidt)
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SIDE B:
A SONG FOR LISA (Russell Schmidt)
BLUE WINTER (Russell Schmidt)
ONE MORE TIME (Russell Schmidt)
FATHER (Words Lisa Barnard/Music L. Barnard & R. Schmidt)
I AM WHO I AM (Russell Schmidt)
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Editor's note: I'm sure some dealer would call this rural folk on eBay and try to charge $29.99 but I don't think I'm buying into it. It sounds more like easy listening lite rock. Kind of an agnostic spiritual about one's own soul which is another way of saying "God doesn't care so if I don't nobody else will." OK, I'm making this stuff up as I go along.
4 comments:
I was a musician who played banjo on the "Blue Winter" cut on Russell Schmidt's Simple Song Record. Paul Martinson (with his cowboy hat) and Scott Rivard had just finished Steve Green's "FunkyTown" and Russ' was a project that Paul had some fun with.
Some of us came from working with Russ, jamming with him during Catholic youth group retreats, and later helped him play some college gigs with him. He also hired some of Herb's studio musicians like Billy Peterson and Bill Barber.
We had fun at Herb Philhofer's "Sound 80" studios, was my first experience in major studio recording, and it brought me back to my old post high school days. Russ didn't have a major label, so he did recorded his own record and handled his own promotions and touring. He is still playing clubs, doing John Denver covers (which he sounds so much like) and his own music, mainly around the Twin Cities area. He is married and has kids in and out of college.
This record brings back some great memories. Thank you for posting it.
JW.
Thanks for checking in Joe. I updated the cover/record pictures and they are much easier to read and look at now!
Does anyone know where I could find a digitized copy of the Russell and Patty Jacob's Well Album.
You can email Russ, himself at russell@russellsmusic.com.
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