Stealers Wheel (album)
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{{Infobox album
| name = Stealers Wheel
| type = studio
| artist = Stealers Wheel
| cover = Stealersalbum.jpg
| alt =
| released = 17 November 1972
| recorded = Apple Studio, London
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = {{hlist|Rock|folk rock}}{{citation needed|date=January 2022}}
| length = 34:12
| label = A&M
| producer = Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title = Ferguslie Park
| next_year = 1973
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Stealers Wheel
| type = studio
| single1 = Late Again
| single1date = 1972
| single2 = You Put Something Better Inside Me
| single2date = 1972
| single3 = Stuck in the Middle with You
| single3date = April 27, 1973
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/stealers-wheel-mw0000338591|title=Stealers Wheel - Stealers Wheel | Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic}}
|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: S|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=S&bk=70|accessdate=March 13, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}
| rev3 = Encyclopedia of Popular Music
| rev3Score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}
}}
Stealers Wheel is the debut studio album by Scottish folk rock band Stealers Wheel.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/05/arts/music/05rafferty.html|title=Gerry Rafferty, Songwriter, Dies at 63|first=Douglas|last=Martin|date=January 4, 2011|via=NYTimes.com}} It was released on 17 November 1972 by A&M Records. The album was a critical and commercial success, reaching No. 50 in the US Billboard 200 album chart, with their hit single "Stuck in the Middle with You" coming from the album.
The cover painting is by John Patrick Byrne. The words "Stealers Wheel" are embedded ten times in the design, in addition to the large lettering in the bottom left-hand corner (eleven in total). The album has each member of the band's heads on different animals (clockwise from top left: Rod Coombes as a zebra, Paul Pilnick as a bird, Tony Williams as a rabbit, Joe Egan as a lion, and Gerry Rafferty as a tiger).
Track listing
{{tracklist
| title1 = Late Again
| length1 = 3:16
| writer1 = Joe Egan, Gerry Rafferty
| title2 = Stuck in the Middle with You
| length2 = 3:25
| writer2 = Egan, Rafferty
| title3 = Another Meaning
| length3 = 3:01
| writer3 = Egan
| title4 = I Get By
| length4 = 3:16
| writer4 = Egan
| title5 = Outside Looking In
| length5 = 3:54
| writer5 = Rafferty
| title6 = Johnny's Song
| length6 = 3:45
| writer6 = Rafferty
| title7 = Next to Me
| length7 = 3:37
| writer7 = Egan, Rafferty
| title8 = José
| length8 = 3:23
| writer8 = Egan
| title9 = Gets So Lonely
| length9 = 2:57
| writer9 = Egan
| title10 = You Put Something Better Inside Me
| length10 = 3:50
| writer10 = Egan, Rafferty
}}
Personnel
=Stealers Wheel=
- Gerry Rafferty - guitar, lead vocals
- Joe Egan - keyboards, guitar, lead vocals
- Paul Pilnick - lead guitar, rhythm guitar (on "I Get By")
- Tony Williams - bass
- Rod Coombes - drums
with:
- Iain Campbell - bass
- Luther Grosvenor - lap steel guitar (on "Stuck In The Middle With You"), lead guitar (on "I Get By"), acoustic guitar, harmony and backing vocals (on "Late Again")
- (uncredited - saxophone)
= Production =
- Geoff Emerick, John Mills - engineering. The album went on to receive the European Edison Award for recording excellence.
Charts
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| Chart (1973)
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| Australia (Kent Music Report){{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=292}}
| style="text-align:center;"|44 |
References
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Category:Stealers Wheel albums
Category:Albums produced by Jerry Leiber
Category:Albums produced by Mike Stoller
Category:Albums recorded at Apple Studios
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