I'm the One (Annette Peacock album)

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I'm the One was the second album by Annette Peacock, and was released by RCA in 1972. In 2010 Peacock remastered and reissued it on her label, ironic US, in a collector's edition, signed CD at annettepeacock.com.

I'm the One featured Peacock's multiple vocal and instrumental talents. The album fuses blues, jazz, avant-garde electronic music (including extensive treatment of her own voice through a Moog synthesizer) and free form poetry and rap. It was recorded live and mostly in single takes.

Track listing

All tracks composed and arranged by Annette Peacock; except where indicated.

Side A

1. "I'm the One"
2. "7 Days"
3. "Pony"
4. "Been & Gone"

Side B

1. "Blood"
2. "One Way"
3. "Love Me Tender" (Elvis Presley, Vera Matson)
4. "Gesture Without Plot"
5. "Did You Hear Me Mommy?"

Personnel

• Direction: Annette Peacock
• Tom Cosgrove - guitar
• Stu Woods - bass
• Rick Marotta, Laurence Cook - drums
• Mike Garson - piano & organ on "I'm the One", organ on "One Way"
• Paul Bley - synthesizer & piano on "Blood", "Gesture Without Plot"
• Glen Moore - bass on "Blood"
• Laurence Cook - drums on "Gesture Without Plot"
• Michael Moss - tenor saxophone
• Mark Whitecage - alto saxophone
• Perry Robinson - clarinet
• Barry Altschul - percussion
• Airto Moreira - percussion
• Orestes Vilató - percussion
• Dom Um Romão - percussion
• Apache Bley - piano on "Did You Hear Me Mommy?"
• Annette Peacock - singer, electric vocals, pianos (acoustic & electric), synthesizers, electric vibraphone, liner notes

Technical

• Guy Mossler - recording engineer
• Richard Davis - artwork, photography (materialised)