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01. BILL QUICK - Take Me Away
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02. BILL QUICK - With You, Lord
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03. BILL QUICK - Get Me A Pony
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04. BILL QUICK - Only The Weather
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05. BILL QUICK - Somebody
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06. BILL QUICK - I Don't Think You're Listening
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07. BILL QUICK - Beautiful People
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08. BILL QUICK - Heaven Knows
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09. BILL QUICK - Winter's Gonna Come
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10. BILL QUICK - I Sing This Song
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11. BILL QUICK - When The Night's Fallin'
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ARTIST
QUICK, BILL
TITLE
Maravillosa Gente
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
GUERSSEN RECORDS
CATALOG #
GUESS 015CD
GUESS 015CD
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
2/11/2008
The mysterious
Bill Quick
: this guy was the son of a North American dad and Venezuelan mum, and landed in Madrid in the early '70s, spending most of his time playing music and manufacturing leather belts and other stuff that he later sold at the popular Rastro flea market in Madrid, a meeting point for all hippies of the time. He somehow got in touch with famous producer
Alain Milhaud
, who was really impressed by his work and quickly offered him a deal to record a long-play to be released in Milhaud's own Explosion label. Then Bill recruited some top studio musicians and foreign friends who were also living in Madrid at the time; the list of people who play on the recording is impressive: up to eleven musicians joined Bill in the recording studio including
Salvador Dominguez
and
Chema Pellicó
(ex-
Cerebrum
),
Rafa Gálvez
(later on
Vainica Doble
's backing band),
Frank Rojas
(
Sangre
) and
Jess Lam
(
Jess & James
). As a result,
Maravillosa Gente
("Beautiful People") was recorded. Ranging from beautiful, introspective, acoustic solo tracks like "Beautiful People," "Only the Weather" or the acid-folk of "Winter's Gonna Come," to full backing-band hard-edged ones like "Take Me Away," "Somebody" and the folk-rock sounding "With You, Lord" or "I Sing This Song." The album is a real treat from start to finish with an awesome sound and amazing production (it was recorded at one of the most advanced Spanish recording studios at the time), along with top musicianship and Bill's amazing songwriting. This album is a real big ticket that was absolutely ignored in Spain at the time of its release, and even today remains unknown to most folk-rock collectors and fans. Curiously enough, the album was released in Brazil as well (with poor sales again), with different cover art. With carefully remastered sound, this is now reissued for the first time. Includes a booklet with pictures and detailed liner notes telling the wonderful and strange story of this mysterious musician.
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