Blue Cheer (album)

Blue Cheer
Studio album by Blue Cheer
Released	December 1969
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) Blue Cheer (1969) The Original Human Being (1970)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Robert Christgau	B[2]

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).^[3]

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

The 2007 Japanese mini-LP sleeve reissue of Blue Cheer contains the mono non-LP single "All Night Long" (Kellogg) b/w "Fortunes" (Peterson) along with the single versions of "Fool" and "Ain't That The Way" as Bonus Tracks.

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

References

1. Allmusic review
2. Christgau, Robert (1970). "Consumer Guide (11)". The Village Voice (June 18). New York. Retrieved January 5, 2015.
3. All Music