Amigo (Arlo Guthrie album)

Amigo is a 1976 album by Arlo Guthrie. It is his seventh studio album. The album peaked #133 [5] in the US Billboard 200 charts.

Amigo
Studio album by Arlo Guthrie
Released	August 1976[1]
Studio	Warner Bros. Recording Studios, North Hollywood
Genre	Folk
Label	Reprise
Producer	John Pilla
Arlo Guthrie chronology
Together in Concert (1975) Amigo (1976) The Best of Arlo Guthrie (1977)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
Christgau's Record Guide	A–[3]
The Rolling Stone Record Guide	[4]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Arlo Guthrie; except where indicated

Side one

1. "Guabi Guabi" – 2:27
2. "Darkest Hour" – 4:04
3. "Massachusetts" – 3:10
4. "Victor Jara" (lyrics by Adrian Mitchell) – 4:17
5. "Patriots' Dream" – 2:51

Side two

1. "Grocery Blues" – 2:09
2. "Walking Song" (Leah Kunkel) – 3:08
3. "My Love" – 2:43
4. "Manzanillo Bay" (Rob "Rabbit" Mackay) – 4:24
5. "Ocean Crossing" – 3:22
6. "Connection" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) – 2:40

Personnel

• Bob Glaub – bass
• Nick DeCaro – strings, accordion
• Bill Green – guitar
• Arlo Guthrie – guitar, vocals
• Milt Holland – percussion
• Dr. Rick Jaeger – drums
• Leah Kunkel – keyboards, electric piano, vocals
• Russ Kunkel – percussion, drums
• Gayle LeVant – harp, harmonica
• Linda Ronstadt – vocals
• Dan Velika – bass
• Waddy Wachtel – guitar
• Jai Winding – keyboards

Additional personnel

• Lloyd Cliff – engineer
• Donn Landee – engineer
• John Pilla – producer
• Lenny Waronker – producer

References

1. (...released last week by Warner/Reprise...) issue published August 25 according to masthead on page 3 (September 23, 1976). "Dateline Burbank (Advertisement)". Rolling Stone. Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc. (222): 5.
2. "allmusic ((( Amigo > Overview )))". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2010-01-05.
3. Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: G". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 24, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
4. Marsh, Dave; Swenson, John (Editors). The Rolling Stone Record Guide, 1st edition, Random House/Rolling Stone Press, 1979, p. 157, 598.
5. "allmusic ((( Amigo > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums )))". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2010-01-05.

External links

• "Arlo Guthrie - Amigo (LP) at Discogs". www.discogs.com. Retrieved 2010-01-05.