Black on Black
Black on Black is an album by Waylon Jennings, released on RCA Victor in 1982.
Background
By 1981, Jennings excessive lifestyle had caught up to him financially. Despite a string of #1 albums and sellout concerts, the overhead of keeping his show on the road combined with his cocaine habit had drained nearly all of his resources. In the audio version of his autobiography Waylon, he admitted to spending up to $1,500 a day on the drug and also confessed to being out of touch with the personnel on his tours:
In the spring of 1981, Jennings, drummer Richie Albright, and financial advisor Bill Robinson went over the singer's business affairs at a hotel in Los Angeles and found that he owed more than two million dollars and was over $800,000 overdrawn to the bank. Jennings slowly crawled out of debt by trimming down his organization and touring heavily, including a lucrative engagement in Las Vegas. Unfortunately, Jennings' money woes came at a time when his health and creativity were flagging primarily due to his continued reliance on cocaine.
Black on Black!
Black on Black! is the third album by jazz organist Sonny Phillips, which was recorded in 1970 and released on the Prestige label.
Reception
Stewart Mason of Allmusic stated, "Sonny Phillips' third and final album for Prestige, coming just over a year after his first, shows the soul-jazz organist moving in a somewhat funkier direction than his first two efforts. The roiling title track actually has an edge of menace to it, an idea his other albums never even entertained".
Track listing
All compositions by Sonny Phillips except as indicated
Personnel
References
Podcasts:
Black on Black
ALBUMS
- Kiss My WAMI 2000 released: 2000
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by Dalbello
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by Andre Andersen
Black On Black
by: Dalbelloa pretty little altar boy
daddy's little pride and joy
change the water into wine
touch yourself and you'll go blind
a warning signal from above
a place where sinners fall in love
they say that opposites attract
so very strange:
Black On Black
a virginal trembling hand
a frightened sacrificial lamb
from a blinding light a shadow falls
a code of silence quakes the halls
a whisper to a peircing scream
a love they say is frightening
they say that opposites attract
so very strange:
Black on Black
change the water into wine
touch yourself and you'll go blind
they say that opposites attract
so very strange:
Black On Black
I heard him say...I don't want to make you feel guilty
Are you a little short of breath?
some things are so sacred...
like a leading question
the power of suggestion
like the face of danger
like the kindness of a stranger
like a Judas Kiss
like pleasure and a little pain
like a sinner or a holy man
a virginal trembling hand
immaculate seduction
absolute corruption
like a blasphemous contract
no turning back
like Black On Black
Black On Black