Later the same year Felicity wanted to augment their line-up by adding another guitarist.When they attended a concert by a group called Foxx they found the musician they were looking for: The guitarist of Foxx was a guy who also played a pedal steel guitar. This was exactly the person they were looking for, so they asked that musician, he was a certain Al Perkins, whether he was interested in joining Felicity. Perkins came over to jam a little bit with the group and he really liked the group's approach to music. So he decided to join.
Now Felicity changed their name to Shiloh.
Shiloh had been formed at a time, when the members were still at college. When they were out of college they were in the lucky situation that the popularity of their group already was big enough to earn a living out of music. They were able to concentrate on writing and performing. In 1969 they met Kenny Rogers, who encouraged them to go to Los Angeles.
There they recorded an album, which was produced by Kenny Rogers. Out of the recording sessions they released two singles. The first single, presenting two tracks that were not included on the later album, was a regional hit but the album and the second single were unnoticed by the record buying public.
Shiloh changes the squishy Little rock of ' Simple Down
Home Rock & Roll Love Song For Rosie "and" Swamp River Country '
with the purest imaginable country rock of ' Same Old Story ' and ' I'm Gone '.
In either case, excels All Perkins on slide guitar, pedal steel, respectively. The
highlight of this only album of Shiloh is the
heartbreaking beautiful valve ' God Is Where You Find Him '. But it is said to
have fallen on deaf ears; Once in L.A.
The drummer, singer and song writer
leaves for the band by Linda Ronstadt, Longbranch Pennywhistle meets there the
half of the countryrockduo and a band with him on: The Eagles. The record
spawned one regional hit single, but went otherwise unnoticed, and that,
together with a bad management deal, caused the band to break up.
In April 1971 Shiloh disbanded. Don Henley explained the reasons for the break up: We had no work, we had a bad management and the record company didn't do anything for us.
Al Perkins replaced Sneaky Pete Kleinow in the Flying Burrito Brothers and Jim Ed Norman became a producer. Soon after the Shiloh break up, Richard Bowden, his cousin Mike Bowden and Don Henley together with Glenn Frey from the Longbranch Pennywhistle formed the Linda Ronstadt Band.
Track listing
01. "Simple Little Down Home Rock & Roll Love Song For Rosie" (Michael McGinnis) - 3:30
02. "I'm Gone" (Don Henley) - 4:55 03. "Left My Gal In The Mountains" - 3:08
04. "It's About Time" (Richard Bowden) - 2:06
05. "Swamp River Country" (Jim Norman) - 5:13
06. "Railroad Song" (Traditional) (Don Henley) - 4:02
07. "Same Old Story" - 2:41
08. "Du Raison" (Jim Norman, Richard Bowden) - 3:13
09. "Down On The Farm" - 2:25
10. "God Is Where You Find Him" (Don Henley) - 5:55
11. "Jennifer" (Don Henley, Jerry Surratt) - 3:41
12. "Tell Me To Get Out Of Your Life" - 3:01
Credits
Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar – Richard Bowden Bass Guitar – Mike Bowden
Drums – Don Henley
Keyboards – Jerry Surratt
Keyboards, Acoustic Guitar – Jim Norman
Lead Vocals – Don Henley, Richard Bowden
Steel Guitar, Electric Guitar – Al Perkins
Strings – Linden Philharmonic Orchestra Adapted By, Arranged By – Shiloh
Arranged By – Al Perkins
Producer – Kenny Rogers
Notes
Recorded at Quantum Studios. Originally released as Amos Records AAS7015 in 1970 without tracks 11 and 12. Those tracks had previously been released as a single (Amos AJB140) in 1969. Genre: Country Rock
Length: 40:57
© 1969
Label - Amos Records
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