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Terry Callier – What Color is Love
Terry Callier
What Color is Love
Style: Soul
Label: Cadet Records
Catalog Number: CA 50019
Released: 1972
Chicago-born singer-songwriter Terry Callier followed up his first album with Chess Records legend Charles Stepney, Occasional Rain, with What Color is Love. The album was meant to be his magnum opus, but as he was turning it in, Chess Records was sold to the more mainstream-oriented GRP. The new label heads forced Terry to shelve most of the record; only seven tracks survived the cutting room floor. However, those seven proved to be a kaleidoscope of orchestral and psychedelic beauty. Evocative and epic, the album summons the spirits of Nina Simone, Callier’s childhood friend Curtis Mayfield and, weirdly, the surrealist cowboy production of Lee Hazlewood. The whole of it is one monumental highlight but forced to pick one, we highly recommend you listen to the gorgeous title track where Stepney’s subtle orchestral arrangement brings out the complete and utter beauty of Callier’s songwriting.
Recommended – Full Listen, A1 Dancing Girl, A2 What Color Is Love
Tags: Cult Classic / Funk / Singer-Songwriter
Tracklist:
A1 Dancing Girl
A2 What Color Is Love
A3 You Goin’ Miss Your Candyman
B1 Just As Long As We’re In Love
B2 Ho Tsing Mee (A Song Of The Sun)
B3 I’d Rather Be With You
B4 You Don’t Care
Credits:
Alto Saxophone, Flute – Donald Myrick*
Backing Vocals [Background Voices] – Kitty Haywood (tracks: B1, B4), Shirley Wahls (tracks: B1, B4), Vivian Harrell (tracks: B1, B4)
Bass – Louis A Satterfield*
Cello – Karl B. Fruth*, Leonard Chausow
Congas, Bongos – Alfred Nalls
Congas, Percussion – Fred Walker
Drums – Donny Simmons*, Morris Jennings
Engineer – Roger Anfinsen
Engineer [Remix] – Brian Christian
Engineer [Supervising] – Gary Starr
French Horn [Fr. Horns] – Ethel Merker, Paul Tervelt
Guitar – Phil Upchurch, Terry Callier
Harmonica – Cyril Touff*
Harp – Edward Druzinsky
Lacquer Cut By – GS*
Percussion – Bobby Christian
Producer, Arranged By, Conductor, Electric Piano, Piano – Charles Stepney
Supervised By, Coordinator – Evelyn Greco
Trumpet – Arthur Hoyle, John Howell
Viola – Arthur Ahlman*, Bruce Hayden, Harold Klatz*, Harold Kupper, Roger Moulton
Violin – Elliot M. Golub*, W. Zlatoff-Mirsky*, Irving Kaplan, Jerry Sabransky, Joseph Golan, Ruth Goodman, Theodore Silavin, William Faldner
