Call of the Wild (Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes album)
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| Call of the Wild | ||||
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| Released | September 1973 | |||
| Recorded | June–July, 1973 | |||
| Studio | Sleepy Hollow Studios (Ithaca, New York) | |||
| Length | 38:01 | |||
| Label | DiscReet | |||
| Producer | Lew Futterman | |||
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Call of the Wild is the fifth studio album by The Amboy Dukes, credited as "Ted Nugent & The Amboy Dukes", released in 1973.
Composition
[edit]The composition of the Call of the Wild album may have been influenced by AM and FM radio hits of the period in which the album was recorded.[1] To the listener, the album's title track, which opens the album, is "not as blistering as ["Cat Scratch Fever"], but more metallic than the psychedelia/blues of the original Amboy Dukes", calling the song "more Jeff Beck gone rock than the quasi-Ozzie persona Nugent gleefully would embrace" in his subsequent albums under his own name, comparing the composition to the music of Spirit and Jo Jo Gunne.[1] "Sweet Revenge" may have lifted its melody from the Grass Roots' song "Things I Should Have Said".[1] A website called the song "Pony Express" "a strange amalgam of '60s out-of-the-garage/heading-toward-stadiums riff rock", saying that it borrowed it's melody from Deep Purple's "Highway Star", and said that "Ain't It the Truth" was a piano boogie, comparing it to "Jumpin' Jack Flash".[1] The album's second side is sequenced to sound like a single continuous jam session.[1] "Rot Gut" may sound like "Joe Perry emulating Jeff Beck".[1] "Below the Belt" contains keyboard and flute instrumentation played by Gabe Magno.
Reception
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
Metal Hammer included the album cover on their list of "50 most hilariously ugly rock and metal album covers ever".[2]
Track listing
[edit]All tracks are written by Ted Nugent, except where indicated.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Call of the Wild" | 4:51 | |
| 2. | "Sweet Revenge" | 4:06 | |
| 3. | "Pony Express" | 5:21 | |
| 4. | "Ain't It the Truth" |
| 4:57 |
| Total length: | 19:05 | ||
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5. | "Renegade" | Grange | 3:25 |
| 6. | "Rot Gut" |
| 2:45 |
| 7. | "Below the Belt" | 7:03 | |
| 8. | "Cannon Balls" | 5:43 | |
| Total length: | 18:59 | ||
Personnel
[edit]- Andy Jezowski - vocals
- Ted Nugent - guitars, vocals, percussion
- Gabriel Magno - keyboards, flute
- Rob Grange - bass, vocals
- Vic Mastrianni - drums, vocals
- John Childs - engineer
- Lew Futterman - producer
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g Viglione, Joe. "Call of the Wild Review by Joe Viglione". AllMusic. Retrieved May 26, 2023.
- ^ Young, Simon (May 9, 2023). "The 50 most hilariously ugly rock and metal album covers ever". Metal Hammer. Future plc. Retrieved December 9, 2024.
