Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance
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{{Infobox album
| name = Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance
| type = album
| artist = Ronnie Lane
| cover = Ronnie_Lane_Slim_Chance.jpg
| alt =
| released = February 1975
| recorded = 1974
| venue =
| studio = Ronnie Lane's Mobile Studio
| genre = Folk rock
| length = 44:59
| label = Island
| producer = Ronnie Lane
| prev_title = Anymore for Anymore
| prev_year = 1974
| next_title = One for the Road
| next_year = 1976
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r42800|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]
|rev2 = Christgau's Record Guide
|rev2Score = B+{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: L|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=L&bk=70|accessdate=March 1, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com|title-link=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies}}
| rev3 = Mojo
| rev3Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite magazine|title=Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance|magazine=Mojo|date=February 2004|page=109}}
|rev4 = MusicHound
| rev5 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide
| rev5Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/newrollingstoner00mars/page/288|editor=Marsh, Dave|editor2=Swenson, John|title=The new Rolling stone record guide|publisher=Random House/Rolling Stone Press|location=New York, NY|date=1983|isbn=0-394-72107-1|page=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstoner00mars/page/288 288]}}
| noprose = yes
}}
Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance is the second solo album recorded by Ronnie Lane, one of the founders of Small Faces and Faces, after he left Faces to live on a farm in Wales. In homage to his perceived chances of commercial success, he named his band Slim Chance. Six of the thirteen songs on this album were originals written by Lane, the rest of Slim Chance, and Lane's wife, Kate Lambert; the remainder were covers, including a new version of the Faces track "Stone".
Track listing
- "Little Piece of Nothing" (Ronnie Lane) – 2:23
- "Stone" (Lane) – 4:06
- "Bottle of Brandy" (Joe Isaacs) – 2:46
- "Street Gang" (Lane, Ruan O'Lochlainn, Steve Simpson) – 4:04
- "Anniversary" (Lane) – 2:57
- "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down (and Write Myself a Letter)" (music: Fred Ahlert; lyrics: Joe Young) – 2:53
- "I'm Just a Country Boy" (Fred Brooks, Marshall Barer) – 2:42
- "Ain't No Lady" (Lane, Ruan O'Lochlainn, Kate Lambert) – 4:22
- "Blue Monday" (Fats Domino, Dave Bartholomew) – 4:07
- "Give Me a Penny" (Lane) – 2:57
- "You Never Can Tell" (Chuck Berry) – 4:31
- "Tin and Tambourine" (Lane, Kate Lambert) – 4:09
- "Single Saddle" (Arthur Altman, Hal David) – 3:02
Personnel
- Ronnie Lane – vocals, electric and acoustic guitars
Slim Chance
- Steve Simpson – electric and acoustic guitars, mandolin, violin, harmonica
- Ruan O'Lochlainn – piano, organ, soprano, alto and tenor saxophones
- Charlie Hart – piano, organ, accordion, violin
- Brian Belshaw – bass
- Glen LeFleur – drums, percussion (tracks 1-4, 6-9, 11, 13)
Session drummer
- Jim Frank – drums (tracks 5, 10, 12)
Production
- Producer: Ronnie Lane
- Recording engineer: John Burns, Ron Fawcus
- Artistic design: Ruan O'Lochlainn
- Photography: Ruan O'Lochlainn
- Liner notes: Sid Griffin