Everything Stops for Tea

Everything Stops for Tea
Studio album by John Baldry
Released	May 1972
Genre	Blues-rock, folk rock
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	Elton John (Side one), Rod Stewart (Side two)
John Baldry chronology
It Ain't Easy (1971) Everything Stops for Tea (1972) Good to Be Alive (1973)

Everything Stops for Tea is an album by John Baldry released in May 1972. It was produced by Elton John and Rod Stewart. Elton provides vocal accompaniment on tracks 1, 3-5. Stewart provides vocal accompaniment and plays banjo on track 8.

Several standout songs include the two Willie Dixon penned cuts, "Seventh Son" and "You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover"; as well as the Dixie Cups song "Iko Iko". This album along with his previous offering It Ain't Easy were the beginning of Baldry's return to the blues after his pop years in the late 60's. Several songs were released as singles by Warner Bros. including "Mother Ain't Dead", "Iko Iko" and "You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover".^[1]

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Track listing

1. "Intro: Come Back Again" (Ross Wilson) - 4:05
2. "Seventh Son" (Willie Dixon) - 3:07
3. "Wild Mountain Thyme" (Traditional; arranged John Baldry, Davey Johnstone) - 3:49
4. "Iko Iko" (Sharon Jones, Jesse Thomas, Joe Jones, Mary Lynn Jones) - 3:10
5. "Jubilee Cloud" (John Kongos, Peter Leroy) - 4:16
6. "Everything Stops for Tea" (Al Goodhart, Al Hoffman, Maurice Sigler) - 3:09 (from the musical Come Into the Kitchen)
7. "You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover" (Willie Dixon) - 4:21
8. "Mother Ain't Dead" (Traditional) - 2:55
9. "Hambone" (Sam Mitchell) - 3:48
10. "Lord Remember Me" (R. Phorne) - 4:08
11. "Armit's Trousers" (Ian Armit) - 1:45

Additionally the following tracks were added as bonus tracks on the re-release of the album in 2005:

1. "Radio Spot #1" - 1:06
2. "Bring My Baby Back to Me" (Live) - 6:26
3. "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" (Featuring Joyce Everson) (Neil Young) - 3:13
4. "I'm Just a Rake and Ramblin' Boy" (Featuring Joyce Everson) - 3:27
5. "Radio Spot #2" - 0:57

Personnel

• John Baldry - vocals, guitar
• Elton John - piano, backing vocals (tracks 1, 3-5)
• Rod Stewart - banjo and backing vocals (track 8)
• Madeline Bell - vocals
• Jimmy Horowitz - keyboards
• Davey Johnstone - guitar
• Sam Mitchell - steel guitar
• Doris Troy - vocals
• Ian Armit - keyboards
• Ray Cooper - percussion
• Stefan Delft - viola
• John Dentith - drums
• James Litherland - guitar
• Nigel Olsson - drums
• John Porter - bass guitar
• Barry St. John - vocals
• Terry Stannard - drums
• Liza Strike - vocals
• Micky Waller - percussion
• Bob Weston - guitar
• Richard Brown - bass guitar
• Bill Smith - bass guitar

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