If - Double Diamond (1973) (2010)

Artist: If
Title Of Album:Double Diamond
Year Of Release: 1973/2010
Label (Catalog#) Relics [RELCD 3011]
Country: UK
Genre: Prog Rock, Jazz Rock
Bitrate: Lossless
Quality: FLAC (*image + .cue,scans)
Total Time: 41:40
Total Size: 242Mb

Double Diamond is the sixth album by British jazz-rock group If and the second to be issued in the U.S. on the Metromedia Records label. With only Dick Morrissey left from the original band, the new line-up featured Fi Trench (keyboards) and Pete Arnesen (keyboards), Steve Rosenthal (guitar/lead vocals), Kurt Palomaki (bass) and Cliff Davies (drums). It was recorded at The Manor recording studios shortly after Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, and released in 1973.

Tracks:
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01. "Play, Play, Play" (D. Morrissey, K. Palomaki) – 3:45
02. "Pebbles on the Beach" (D. Morrissey, B. Morrissey) – 4:34
03. "Pick Me Up (And Put Me Back on the Road)" (Davies) – 5:03
04. "Another Time Around (Is Not for Me)" (Davies) – 6:57
05. "Groupie Blue (Every Day She's Got the Blues)" (D. Morrissey, T. Preston) – 4:09
06. "Fly, Fly, The Route, Shoot" (Palomaki) – 4:27
07. "Feel Thing Part 1" (Arnesen) – 4:18
08. "Feel Thing Part 2" (Arnesen) – 4:54
09. "Feel Thing Part 3" (Arnesen) – 3:18

Personnel:
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Dick Morrissey - tenor and alto saxophones, lead and backing vocals, flute
Steve Rosenthal - guitar, lead and backing vocals
Pete Arnesen - piano, backing vocals, organ, synthesizer
Fi Trench - piano, backing vocals
Kurt Palomaki - bass, backing vocals
Cliff Davies - drums, backing vocals, percussion

All thanks to original releaser