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"Volunteers" is a Jefferson Airplane single from 1969 that was released to promote the album Volunteers two months before the album's release. It was written by Marty Balin and Paul Kantner . Balin was woken up by a truck one morning, which happened to be a truck with Volunteers of America painted on the side.
Volunteers was the group's first album recorded entirely in San Francisco, at Wally Heider's newly opened state-of-the-art 16-track studio. [3] The album was among the earliest 16-track recordings, with the back cover displaying a picture of the Ampex MM-1000 professional tape recorder used to record the album.
"Good Shepherd" originated in a very early 19th century hymn written by the Methodist minister Reverend John Adam Granade (1770–1807), "Let Thy Kingdom, Blessed Savior". [1] [2] [3] Granade was a significant figure of the Great Revival in the American West during the 19th century's first decade, as the most important author of camp meeting hymns during that time. [4]
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"We Can Be Together" is a song written by Paul Kantner that was released by [[Jefferson Airplane as the first track or their 1969 album Volunteers and also as the B-side of their "Volunteers" single. [1] Allmusic critic Matthew Greenwald described the lyrics as "a virtual "state of the union" address for the counterculture of the late '60s."
In his book Jefferson Airplane: every album, every song, Richard Butterworth describes the lyrics on Takes Off as "optimistic" and exhibiting a "growing social awareness" of the era's music. [17] Comparatively, Unterberger noted that the band's cover version of Chet Powers ' " Let's Get Together ", later made famous by the Youngbloods , was ...
Barbata was "known for his exceptional talent," Jefferson Airplane wrote in its statement announcing his death. "Back in '72, during a hiatus for CSN&Y, David Crosby introduced John to the ...
Grunt Records was a vanity label founded in 1971 by Jefferson Airplane and distributed by RCA Records.Initially created to sign local Bay Area acts, the label later was used only for Jefferson Starship and Hot Tuna releases.