{"id":1695,"date":"2008-09-20T11:45:58","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T15:45:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-09-20T11:45:58","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T11:45:58","slug":"albums-sold-solely-for-the-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/albums-sold-solely-for-the-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Albums That Have Sold Almost Solely Based on the Backing Musicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8EOxy3TF3OY?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p><strong>Townsman cdm<\/strong>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/09\/19\/last-man-standing-bands-named-after-a-gu\">Last Man Standing thread on bands named after band members who are not the front man<\/a> got me thinking about an album by a solo artist that I bought solely on the strength of the backing musicians. I was going to suggest <strong>Jackie Lomax<\/strong> was a solo artist who was not the front man of his own band, but I&#8217;d already had enough creative suggestions shot down. I&#8217;m not bitter. Instead, in this offshoot thread, I&#8217;d like your thoughts on albums that have sold almost solely based on the backing musicians. There&#8217;s no way to quantify this, but I would suspect that 99% of the people who bought that first Jackie Lomax album did so because of the backing musicians, including his &#8220;sponsor,&#8221; <strong>George Harrison<\/strong>, other Beatles, Eric Clapton, and a host of other late-period Beatles associates. I&#8217;m too lazy to pull out the record right now and list all the credits, but trust me. Similarly, I&#8217;d bet about 85% of those who bought the Delaney and Bonnie album that includes Harrison and Clapton bought it almost solely based on their being on the record.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no shame in any of this. It must be great for an unknown artists to see a few more than 500 albums thanks to the input of well-known backing musicians. I&#8217;d like to know a couple of things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Which albums do you suspect sell to any degree based almost solely on the allure of the backing musicians? (Since you have no way of calculating this, your personal experience with said albums should be a prime factor in your answer!)<\/li>\n<li>Who&#8217;s your favorite previously unknown artist that you were turned onto thanks to some better-known supporting musicians?<\/li>\n<li>Which artist, for you, failed to capitalize on this opportunity?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>I look forward to your thoughts.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Townsman cdm&#8216;s Last Man Standing thread on bands named after band members who are not the front man got me thinking about an album by a solo artist that I bought solely on the strength of the backing musicians. I was going to suggest Jackie Lomax was a solo artist who was not the front <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/albums-sold-solely-for-the-back\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}