Oil Well Bootlegs - RSC CD: Paul McCartney & Wings – Junior's Farm Oil Well

Paul McCartney & Wings – Junior's Farm
Oil Well - RSC CD 023

1 Maybe I'm Amazed 5:21
2 Little Woman Love / C Moon 5:24
3 Hi Hi Hi 3:12
4 My Love 4:20
5 Live And Let Die 3:26
6 Jet 4:07
7 Bluebird 3:38
8 Let Me Roll It 4:49
9 1985 6:26
10 Junior's Farm 4:29
11 Soily (Take I) 4:09
12 Soily (Take II) 4:14
13 Go Now 4:00
14 Sally G. 3:42
15 Bridge On The River Kwai Suite 3:10

Note:
All songs by Paul McCartney
~~Live in Chattanooga - August 27 1972~~

Tracks 1-13 recorded at Abbey Road Studios, August 1974
Tracks 14,15 recorded at Sound Shop Studios, Nashville, Tennessee, 1 July 1974

Lineup:
Paul McCartney – vocals, bass, guitar, piano
Linda McCartney – vocals, keyboards
Geoff Britton – drums, percussion
Denny Laine – vocals, guitar, bass, piano, acoustic guitar on track 14,
Jimmy McCulloch – vocals, guitar, bass, acoustic guitar on tracks 14 and 15.

Johnny Gimbell:Fiddle on track 14
Bobby Thompson: Pedal Steel on track 14
Chet Atkins: Guitar on track 15
Floyd Cramer: Piano on track 15

This album is a partial clone of "Working Holiday" - Zee Records – 304908
This is a collection of rehearsal sessions for the Wings Over The World Tour was recorded in London at Abbey Road Studios in August of 1974. Reason why the date shown on the back cover is absolutely wrong. Please note this bootleg is a partial clone of: Paul McCartney, Wings – Little Woman Love Oil Well – RSC 093 with some tracks from Nashville sessions. Both bootlegs are very rare, it is difficult to find them online.This Oil Well version has a fine cover, fine quality. Limited to 200 copies only. Fold-out insert shows details of other CDs in the series.
Due to its rarity and good quality, this disc is recommended.
Recommended songs: Maybe I'm Amazed, Jet, Go now.

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© Official released material:
Tracks 1 to 13 from One Hand Clapping - Soundtrack
Track 14 released as the B-side to the single "Junior's Farm"
Track 15 from Walking In The Park With Eloise
Track 14,15 have been released also on Wings at the Speed of Sound - Deluxe Edition

Part of "One Hand Clapping" tracks has been released officially on: "Band On The Run - Deluxe Edition", "McCartney - Deluxe Edition", "Venus and Mars - Deluxe Edition".
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One Hand Clapping
A rarely seen "rockumentary" made by Paul McCartney and his then band, Wings, at Abbey Road studios in London, in August 1974. The film features the band playing live and also voice overs
with each member talking about their musical experiences up to that point. Songs featured include Maybe I'm Amazed, Jet and Live and Let Die. Paul McCartney was in good musical shape by mid 1974. He'd had a run of excellent and successful hit singles since late 1972 and more recently his Band on the Run album had seen him return to the top of the charts with his best set of songs going back to his Beatles years.

Only problem was he didn't have a full band, two members of his band Wings having quit in late 1973. By the next summer though he had recruited two new members, mercurial lead guitarist Jimmy McCulloch and fitness freak drummer Geoff Britton. Preparing to record a new album and also for nationwide tours of the UK in 1975 and the US in 1976, this MPL produced film from that period shows McCartney rehearsing the band on camera.
A mixture of run-throughs of some of his best new and recent songs, some fly-on-the-wall, though hardly revealing observation and individual interviews with the band members, it's rather poorly filmed, especially the musical numbers where lingering close up shots completely miss the dynamic of a potentially exciting group cohering in its early life.

The rockers are terrific especially the unreleased at the time "Soily", "Live And Let Die" complete with in-house orchestra and a revealing lead vocal overdub by Macca alone on Band On The Run highlight "1985". There's a nice solo piano medley of again unreleased songs where McCartney freely admits to his fondness for pre rock and roll easy listening material, something he's been criticised for and which he over-indulged in his TV special of the previous year.

Paul in Nashville
We had great fun using pedal guitars, fiddles and banjo's. The musicians out of Nashville are a great pleasure to work with because they are so sharp and professional. In an informal press conference held on the front porch of the ranch Paul said:
I came here because Nashville is the music center. I hope to return sometime in the near future and do an American Tour. If it does develop, there are definite plans for a Nashville concert. We just couldn't skip Nashville, we have too many friends here. The trouble is that since I've been here, I've promised a lot of people that I would write songs for them. It's amazing the people that want songs, like Johnny Cash and Charlie Rich.

You'd think they would have plenty of material but they all tell us, they don't have enough good songs. Eloise" written by Paul's father 20 years earlier. Also recorded was a "country flavored" song called "Sally G", written by Paul after visiting Printers Alley. He was impressed not only with Nashville, but the musicians and the Sound Shop studio where he worked,
usually from 6pm to midnight. Opryland USA Theme Park.They attended a fiddle contest, saw Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner perform together
(the last time, for over a decade), they see Gordon Stoker (singer with Elvis Presley's backing group The Jordanaires).

Also they frequented there favorite local restaurant, the Loveless Motel, and a few drive-in movies. One evening Jerry Reed, Chet Atkins and Roy Orbison came over for a supper, cooked by Linda. We went to Rivergate Mall, and in the evening we had a barbeque down on a lake, but the next day, we were back to rehearsing for possible future tours and recordings. Most of the time we rehearsed in a
garage, next to the house. Among the thirty pieces \of luggage loaded when leaving, was a Honda motorcycle. Paul's immediate plans were to do a follow up album to "Band On The Run" in the near future. "Beyond that, I don't know. I could for all I know, write a great rock and roll epic. And then I could do nothing" Paul McCartney flew his Wings to Nashville, heart of the country music scene in the USA, and the world The idea: to have fun, to rehearse,to record, meet old friends and make new ones, to enjoy, last but not least,a jolly holiday. The mission was accomplished and all were achieved.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfzKhLwYa-0