Blue Cheer (album)

Blue Cheer
Studio album by Blue Cheer
Released	December 1969 (1969-12)
Recorded	1969
Studio	Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco, California
Genre	Hard rock blues rock
Length	36:15
Label	Philips
Producer	Michael Sunday
Blue Cheer chronology
New! Improved! (1969)New! Improved!1969 Blue Cheer (1969) The Original Human Being (1970)The Original Human Being1970

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Robert Christgau	B

Blue Cheer is the fourth album by Blue Cheer, released in 1969 on Philips Records. Gary Lee Yoder contributed songwriting for the opening and closing tracks and would later join the group as guitarist on their next album The Original Human Being (1970).

The album is the first Blue Cheer release as a four piece band, as they had always been a power trio prior.

Track listing

Side one

1. "Fool" (Gary R. Grelecki, Gary Lee Yoder) – 3:26
2. "You're Gonna Need Someone" (Mayell, Stephens) – 3:31
3. "Hello LA, Bye Bye Birmingham" (Delaney Bramlett, Mac Davis) – 3:29
4. "Saturday Freedom" (Stephens) – 5:47
5. "Ain't That the Way (Love's Supposed to Be)" (Kellogg, Peterson) – 3:11

Side two

1. "Rock and Roll Queens" (Kellogg, Peterson) – 2:44
2. "Better When We Try" (Kellogg) – 2:48
3. "Natural Man" (Kellogg, Peterson) – 3:36
4. "Lovin' You's Easy" (Stephens) – 3:50
5. "The Same Old Story" (Grelecki, Yoder) – 3:53

Personnel

• Bruce Stephens – guitar, backing and lead (2, 4, 7, 9) vocals
• Dickie Peterson – bass, lead vocals (1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10)
• Ralph Burns Kellogg – keyboards
• Norman Mayell – drums

Production

• Eric Albronda – producer, backing vocals