Tom Jans ‎- Loving Arms: Best of 1971-1982 (2013)

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Artist: Tom Jans
Title: Loving Arms: Best of 1971-1982
Year Of Release: 2013
Label: Raven Records
Genre: Folk Rock
Quality: Mp3 320 / Flac (tracks, .cue, log)
Total Time: 01:16:49
Total Size: 234/513 Mb (scans)
WebSite: Album Preview

Tom Jans ‎- Loving Arms: Best of 1971-1982 (2013)

Tracklist:

1. Carolina - 4:14
2. Letter To Jesus - 3:23
3. Loving Arms - 2:56
4. Old Time Feeling (Will Jennings) - 3:21
5. Margarita - 4:20
6. Free And Easy - 3:01
7. Gotta Move - 4:20
8. Once Before I Die - 3:20
9. Struggle In Darkness - 5:44
10. Out Of Hand (Jeff Barry, Thomas Jans) - 3:21
11. The Eyes Of An Only Child - 3:43
12. Inside Of You - 3:11
13. Why Don't You Love Me (Scott Shelley, Thomas Jans) - 5:07
14. Distant Cannon Fire - 5:43
15. Back On My Feet Again - 4:05
16. Mothers Eyes - 4:39
17. When The Rebel Comes Home - 3:12
18. Working Hot - 4:16
19. Lost In Your Eyes (Scott Shelley, Thomas Jans) - 4:19

Line-up:
Tom Jans - Vocals, Guitar, Piano
Mini Farina - Vocals, Guitar (Tracks 1-2)
Craig Doerge - Piano (Tracks 1-2)
Jim Keltner - Drums (Tracks 1-2, 7)
Leland Sklar - Bass (Tracks 1-2, 17-18)
Reggie Young - Guitar (Track 3-6)
Mike Leech - Bass (Track 3-6)
Lonnie Mack - Acoustic Guitar (Track 3-6)
Troy Seals - Acoustic Guitar (Track 3-6)
Kenny Malone - Drums (Tracks 3-6)
David Briggs - Piano (Tracks 3-6)
Herb Pedersen - Vocals (Track 8)
Jeff Porcaro - Drums (Track 9)
Mike Utley - Organ (Track 7)
David Lindley - Lead Guitar (Track 7)
Lowell George - Guitar (Track 9)
Bill Payne - Synthesizer (Tracks 7,9, 13-15)
Kerry Hatch - Bass, Vocals (Tracks 13-15)
Kelly Shanahan - Drums (Tracks 13-15)
Fred Tackett - Guitar (Tracks 13-15, 17-19)
Jerry Swallow - Guitar (Tracks 13-15)
Scott Shelly - Guitar (Tracks 13-15)
Valerie Carter - Vocals (Tracks 13-15)
Ernie Watts - Saxophone (Track 13)
Michael Utley - Piano, Organ (Track 13)
Jeff Osborne, Kate Markowitz, Richard Kerr - Backing Vocals (Tracks 16-19)
Don Grusin - Keyboards (Tracks 16-19)
Jerry Vinci - Concertmaster (Track 16)
Carlos Vega - Drums (Tracks 17-19)
Ken Wild - Bass (Track 19)
Steve Forman - Percussion (Track 17)
Lee Ritenour - Guitar (Tracks 16-18)

Tom Jans began his career as a partner of Mimi Fariña's in the late '60s, spent a fair chunk of the '70s gunning for a soft rock crossover hit, then died under mysterious circumstances in 1984, two years after recording what wound up as his final album. In the process, he built up a strong body of work, highlighted by "Loving Arms," a song turned into a hit by Dobie Gray and covered frequently by country and R&B singers including Elvis Presley, Glen Campbell, Etta James, and Kenny Rogers. Despite this not-insignificant accomplishment, Jans was largely lost to obscurity, a situation not helped by the lack of his music on CD. Raven rectifies this situation with the 2013 compilation Loving Arms 1971-1982, a sharply selected cross-section of his four albums which also contains highlights from the Japan-only 1982 LP Champion. As this collection progresses, Jans slowly moves away from simple, folky songs into lusher settings, helped somewhat by the executive production of Lowell George on 1975's The Eyes of an Only Child, but from that point on, Jans favored production that could conceivably bring him within shooting distance of the Top 40. That sentiment applies to the buried Champion, which actually may be his most blatant attempt at a hit despite its lack of release in the U.S., but through the remove of history, Jans winds up seeming like a hybrid of Jackson Browne and Boz Scaggs, a serious songwriter given considerable commercial gloss. His music never quite satisfied either extreme, which explains why it didn't get much attention at the time, but from the distance of several decades, it sounds like thoroughly appealing, '70s Californian singer/songwriter soft rock, and an album that should have been given credit much earlier than 2013.

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