Tales from the Ozone

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Tales from the Ozone - Wikipedia

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Tales from the Ozone

Studio album by

Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen

Released

1975

Length

35:52

Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen chronology

Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
(1975)

Tales from the Ozone
(1975)

We've Got a Live One Here!
(1976)

Tales from the Ozone is an album by American rock band Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen. Their sixth album, it was produced by the musician Hoyt Axton, and recorded at the Record Plant in Sausalito, California. The last studio album to feature most of the band's original lineup, it was released in 1975.^[1]^[2]^[3] It reached #168 on the Billboard 200.^[4]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[5]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[6]

On AllMusic, Thom Jurek said, "Like their eponymously titled set earlier in 1975, Tales from the Ozone featured a plethora of great songs... Critics have been critical of the production on this set in the past, but Axton knew exactly what he was doing in the studio. The "flat" sound is the dynamic the band had live, with everything up in the mix."^[1]

On Country Standard Time, Eli Messinger wrote, "Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen's Tales from the Ozone draws almost entirely from a list of covers... As a mature band, recording for the then-reigning industry conglomerate, this is more polished than the earlier albums and just as inventive and enjoyable."^[2]

When the album was released, Cash Box magazine wrote, "Commander Cody's music, in its own slightly erratic way, represents the true spirit of America. Through the lines of Tales from the Ozone run images of truck stops and bars in one horse towns."^[7]

Track listing

Side A

"Minnie the Moocher" (Cab Calloway) – 3:50
"It's Gonna Be One of Those Nights" (George Frayne, Bill Kirchen, Billy C. Farlow) – 2:17
"Connie" (Kevin "Blackie" Farrell) – 2:52
"I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train" (Billy Joe Shaver) – 2:47
"Honky Tonk Music" (George Hawke) – 3:39
"Lightnin' Bar Blues" (Hoyt Axton) – 2:35

Side B

"Paid in Advance" (Axton) – 2:50
"Cajun Baby" (Hank Williams Jr., Hank Williams) – 2:41
"Tina Louise" (Farrell) – 3:27
"The Shadow Knows" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) – 2:30
"Roll Your Own" (Mel McDaniel) – 3:22
"Gypsy Fiddle" (Andy Stein) – 3:02

Personnel

Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen

Commander Cody (George Frayne) – piano, vocals
Billy C. Farlow – vocals, harmonica
Bill Kirchen – guitar, vocals
John Tichy – guitar, vocals
Bobby Black – pedal steel guitar, vocals
Andy Stein – fiddle, saxophone
Bruce Barlow – bass guitar, vocals
Lance Dickerson – drums, percussion, marimba, vocals

Additional musicians

Tower of Power Horns with Mic Gillette and Gregg Adams playing trumpet
David Bromberg – dobro
Hoyt Axton – dobro, background vocals
Renee Armand, Ronee Blakley, Nicolette Larson, Mimi Fariña, Deborah Anderson, Kevin "Blackie" Farrell, Marc Edelstein – background vocals

Production

Produced by Hoyt Axton
Mixing, engineering: John Stronach
Additional engineering: Tom Anderson, Chris Morris, Deni King
Mastering: Kent Dunken, John Stronach
Art direction, graphics, photography: Ren Deaton Productions

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Jurek, Thom. "Tales from the Ozone". AllMusic. Retrieved September 6, 2020.
^ ^a ^b Messinger, Eli. "Tales from the Ozone". Country Standard Time. Retrieved September 6, 2020.
^ Lewis, Alan (October 3, 1975). "Lost in the Ozone Again". San Francisco Bay Guardian via the Internet Archive. Retrieved September 6, 2020.
^ "Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen – Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved September 7, 2020.
^ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 2. MUZE. p. 501.
^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 156.
^ "Tales from the Ozone". Cash Box. Internet Archive. September 27, 1975. Retrieved September 7, 2020.

v t e Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
George Frayne Billy C. Farlow Bill Kirchen John Tichy Andy Stein Bruce Barlow Lance Dickerson Steve Davis Bobby Black Norton Buffalo
Studio albums	Lost in the Ozone (1971) Hot Licks, Cold Steel & Truckers Favorites (1972) Country Casanova (1973) Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen (1975) Tales from the Ozone (1975)
Live albums	Live from Deep in the Heart of Texas (1974) We've Got a Live One Here! (1976) Bear's Sonic Journals: Found in the Ozone (2020)

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