First Taste (Potliquor album)

First Taste is the debut album by American band Potliquor released in November 1970.

First Taste
Studio album by
Potliquor
ReleasedNovember 1970
StudioDeep South Recording Studio
Genre
  • Southern rock
  • blues rock
Length39:18
LabelJanus Records
ProducerJim Brown
Potliquor chronology
First Taste
(1970)		 Levee Blues
(1971)

While First Taste never quite broke onto the Billboard album chart, the magazine did report in mid October/early November 1970 that "Riverboat", a single from the album was being played at the University of Wisconsin radio station[1] and at Queens College in Queens, New York[2] and again in early November that the album was receiving airplay by radio stations run by Southern Methodist University and the University of Minnesota.[3] They also posted a notice later in the month that the GRT Corporation, the corporate owner of Janus Records, was generating "much excitement behind its debut album by Potliquor, First Taste" in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[4]

Track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Down the River Boogie"George Ratzlaff2:49
2."Ol' Man River"Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein, Jr.4:37
3."Riverboat"David Craig3:08
4."Toballby"George Ratzlaff, Les Wallace, Guy Schaeffer, Jerry Amoroso7:21
5."The Raven"George Ratzlaff, Edgar Allan Poe5:05
6."You're No Good"Clint Ballard, Jr.4:55
7."Price 20 Cents a Copy"George Ratzlaff3:08
8."Driftin'"Giuseppe Efronetée8:15

Personnel
  • Jerry Amoroso – drums, percussion, vocals
  • George Ratzlaff – keyboards, rhythm guitar, harp, percussion, vocals
  • Guy Schaeffer – bass guitar, vocals
  • Les Wallace – guitars, vocals

Additional

  • Jim Brown – producer
  • Cy Frost – engineer
  • Sam Forbes – photography
  • The Graffiteria – album cover design
  • Dorothy Schwartz – album coordinator
  • Ron Scerbo – production coordinator
  • Artistic Promotional Enterprises – management
  • Great South Artists – direction

References
  1. "Campus News". Billboard. October 17, 1970.
  2. Glassenberg, Bob (November 7, 1970). "Campus News". Billboard.
  3. Glassenberg, Bob (November 7, 1970). "Campus News". Billboard: 30.
  4. "From the Music Capitals of the World". Billboard: 86. November 21, 1970.
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