“Whiskey Train” by Procol Harum

"Whiskey Train" rolled out ahead of Home, Procol Harum's fourth album, as the single that paved the way for it in 1970, and it's Robin Trower's tune, with Keith Reid writing the words.

The band had changed shape. Organist Matthew Fisher and bassist David Knights were gone, and Chris Copping came in on bass and organ alongside singer and pianist Gary Brooker, drummer B. J. Wilson and lead guitarist Trower, which made Procol Harum the Paramounts again in all but name; Copping was there to haul back some of that earlier band's R&B sound. Home itself took two tries. The first sessions, at Trident in autumn 1969 with Fisher in charge, got binned, and the band started over at Abbey Road in February 1970 with Chris Thomas producing and Jeff Jarratt engineering.

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