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Captain Buckles

1971 studio album by David "Fathead" Newman

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Captain Buckles is an album by American saxophonist David "Fathead" Newman featuring performances recorded in 1970 and released on the Cotillion label.

01Reception

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AllMusic

AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars with its review by Scott Yanow calling it a "soulful but relatively straight-ahead effort" and "An improvement over David Newman's preceding projects".

02Track listing

All compositions by David Newman except as indicated

  1. "Captain Buckles" - 4:36
  2. "Joel's Domain" - 4:15
  3. "Something" (George Harrison) - 3:40
  4. "Blue Caper" (Blue Mitchell) - 4:22
  5. "The Clincher" - 6:17
  6. "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 5:04
  7. "Negus" - 5:15

03Personnel

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