Little Richard -Southern Child

 

01  California (I'm Comin')  

02  If You Pick Her Too Hard (She Comes Out Of Tune) 

03  Burning Up With Love  

04  Ain't No Tellin'

05  Last Year's Race Horse (Can't Run In This Year's Race) 

06  Southern Child  

07  In The Name (Version 3)  

08  Over Yonder  

09  I Git A Little Lonely 

10  Puppy Dog Song  

11  Sneak The Freak

1972

Little Richard – vocals, piano (inaudible except on “The Puppy Dog Song”)

Lee Allen – tenor saxophone

Jim Horn – saxophone

Sneaky Pete Kleinow – pedal steel guitar

Earl Palmer – drums (drums inaudible on all tracks but “The Puppy Dog Song”)

Michael Deasy - slide guitar

Bob Love – unknown instrument according to Reprise Records

Released January 2005

Recorded April – May 1972

Genre Country

Label Reprise

The sleeve notes for the Complete Reprise Recordings had it that: "Cut at more or less the same time and in the same place as the Second Coming material, ten further songs were mixed, sequenced, assembled onto master reels, and delivered to Reprise. Having decided on the title Southern Child, the label even had the album art photographed: 'It was me milking a cow that they brought into the backyard of my home,' recalls Richard. But that was as far as it went. For reasons that remain hazy, Southern Child was never released... until now, more than 32 years after it was recorded".

An eleventh track recorded at the same sessions but not selected for the album (Though released with The Complete Reprise Recordings) was a 4:11m instrumental, "Sneak the Freak".

Many of the tracks were copyrighted before the release of The Second Coming. Richard performed "Burning Up with Love" on The Merv Griffin Show before the release of The Second Coming; he also mentioned his "new" album, "The Southern Child", on the show.(wiki)