1. Run Run Run
2. Shake That Fat
3. Babylon
4. I Make Love
5. Barstow Blue Eyes
6. 99 Days
7. Academy Award
8. Take It Easy
9. Flying Home
Album Description
Their 1972 debut album is as good as any rock 'n' roll album released that year in our humble opinion. Includes the hit "Run Run Run," "Shake That Fat," "Babylon," "I Make Love," "Barstow Blue Eyes," "99 Days," "Academy Award," "Take It Easy," and "Flying Home." A Collectors' Choice Music exclusive!
Album Description
Their 1972 debut album is as good as any rock 'n' roll album released that year in our humble opinion. Collectors' Choice. 2003.
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Jo Jo Gunne
- Audio CD: 0 pages (2003-07-08)
- Publisher: Collector's Choice
- Label: Collector's Choice
- Format: Original recording reissued
- Studio: Collector's Choice
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 12 reviews
- Sales Rank in Music: #71494
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Summary: Jo Jo Gunne Lives! 2009-08-10
Comment: Jo Jo Gunne. Not many people remember them. My first contact with their music was back in college when I worked at the college radio station and started to play their record - yes record - and loved it. Prior to graduation back in 1980 I taped the record from the radio station's copy so I'd still have the music. This year I found the tape - played it again (after some 20 years) and fell in love with the music all over again. If you like the band - Spirit...you will love Jo Jo Gunne. Thank you Jay Ferguson for the music. Music lovers out there should also check out Jo Jo Gunne - "Bite Down Hard". Also a classic.
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Summary: Same as the LP, superb production 2007-09-24
Comment: My older brother has the original LP and I wanted a CD copy. The material still holds up well and was produced/mixed to near today's standards. Call me crazy but it's nice to hear slamming rock & roll where you can clearly understand AND appreciate the vocals, with each instrument clear in the mix and not a muddy distortonoisewankfest.
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Summary: Great cd 2007-06-21
Comment: This is a great cd & was great on vinyl. If you like to rock n roll then listen to this one. I have all the cds & at one time had all the albums. Another great cd is their latest "Big Chain". It has some of their older music and also some new music. Get it, you will like it if you ever liked the Gunne. Sign me, still a 'Gunner'.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: if not for us eccentric music fans it would be totally forgotten 2006-08-08
Comment: What a shame. Such a good debut album yet no one even knows who they are. Jay Ferguson is one of the luckiest or most talented artists. He achieved success in 3 forms (Spirit, Jo Jo and Thunder Island solo). This is a great, gritty, greasy, soulful southern rock album.
I would like to see a modern band do a cover so as to resurrect this quality band. How about Metalica doing Run, run run?
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Protypical Early '70s Rock 2006-06-01
Comment: After reading Darth Kommissar's clinical Spotlight review of this record, I was sure of two things: 1) he wasn't around when this album was made, and 2) you can't analyze Jo Jo Gunne outside of the context of the time. The eight Customer reviews capture the essence of this record far more clearly.
In short, this record is rock solid. And it is THE place to start if you are looking into Jo Jo Gunne (this assumes that you've done the essential pre-requisite research into Spirit). It wasn't about greatness, it was about kicking out jams on Friday night, just as "RJ'ledog3'" said in his review.
In the early '70s, music had turned a corner. The Beatles were gone and there was no direction home. Altamont, Kent State, and the death of the New Left portended a darker future. The impact of bands like Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath and The Stooges were peeling the layers of 60s idealism and basic, no-frills rock and roll bands rushed into the vacuum. Jo Jo Gunne was one of those bands. Still, Jay Ferguson was a convincing singer and songwriter and the tunes on this first album are almost universally strong, if never great. None of their subsequent albums would be so consistent (though the technical quality might be a touch better as der Kommissar suggests) despite the occasional gem. It was all over for Jo Jo Gunne in a couple of years. Jay Ferguson would finally attain radio success in a solo career in the late '70s before spontaneously combusting.
In the end, Jo Jo Gunne is not great rock & roll. But it is worthy. Any serious student of early 70s rock should definitely have this disc in their archive.
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