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Tom Cat

The band's second Ode album and the last with Scott as leader.
Tom Scott and the L.A. Express, 1975

Scott produced, with Hank Cicalo engineering and Chuck Tremmel and Milt Calice assisting. Bennett played bass, Guerin drums and percussion, Ford guitar, Nash electric piano, organ and synthesizer, and Scott synthesizer, lyricon, saxophone, woodwinds and percussion; Joni Mitchell sings on "Love Poem" only. Writers were Bennett (four tracks), Ford, Scott, Guerin and Nash, with "Mondo" shared by Bennett and Scott. Robert Christgau gave it a C-minus in his Record Guide, writing that it is not jazz but background music without the foreground. The studio and exact recording dates are not given in any source we found, and the catalog number is contested.

Track listing

  1. Rock Island Rocket5:08
  2. Tom Cat3:39
  3. Day Way4:16
  4. Keep On Doin' It3:04
  5. Love Poem4:15
  6. Good Evening Mr. & Mrs. America & All The Ships At Sea4:44
  7. Backfence Cattin'4:04
  8. Mondo8:30
  9. Refried4:10

Sources

  1. Tom Cat, Session Days
  2. L.A. Express, Wikipedia
  3. Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies, Robert Christgau (1981)