Thanks to Audio Al for this week's choice: (And sorry - Wednesday is the new Tuesday!)
Fire and Water is the third studio album released by English rock group Free. The album became the band's breakthrough hit, reaching No2 in the UK charts and No17 in the US, making it the most successful Free album.
Release date: April 1990
Artist: Free
Songs
1 Fire and Water 4:03
2 Oh I Wept 4:29
3 Remember 4:29
4 Heavy Load 5:22
5 Mr Big (BBC Live in Concert) 6:37
6 Don't Say You Love Me 5:55
7 All Right Now 4:14
The album contained the hit single "All Right Now" which they later played to a crowd of over 600,000 people at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival, generating great popularity. To date, it is the only Free album to have seen a CD reissue in America.
All tracks written by Andy Fraser and Paul Rodgers unless otherwise stated.
Side one
"Fire and Water" – 4:02 (UK album) 3:41 (US album)
"Oh I Wept" (Rodgers, Kossoff) – 4:26
"Remember" – 4:20 (A reworking of an unused song "Woman by the Sea" from the Tons of Sobs recording sessions in 1968)
"Heavy Load" – 5:19
Side two
"Mr. Big" (Fraser, Rodgers, Kirke, Kossoff) – 5:55 (Performed by Free on a televised session that can be seen on the Let It Rock – Vol. 2 DVD, released in the UK in 2003.)
"Don't Say You Love Me" – 6:01
"All Right Now" – 5:32 (The version on the album is longer than the single release: the second verse is repeated and the guitar solo is longer.)
Personnel
Paul Rodgers – vocals
Paul Kossoff – guitars
Andy Fraser – bass guitar, piano
Simon Kirke – drums
I love the harsh down to earth sound of these early Albums , The artists are left to get on and play without being over edited