Joe Walsh - Ordinary Average Guy (1991)

Joe Walsh - Ordinary Average Guy (1991)

Tracklist front / back album covers

1. "Two Sides to Every Story"   3:24

2. "Ordinary Average Guy"   4:12

3. "The Gamma Goochee"   2:49

4. "All of a Sudden"   4:56

5. "Alphabetical Order"   4:58

6. "Look at Us Now"   4:55

7. "I'm Actin' Different"   4:31

8. "Up All Night"   3:54

9. "You Might Need Somebody"   4:30

10. "Where I Grew up (Prelude to School Days)"   2:37

11. "School Days"   5:18

Joe Walsh Band Members / Musicians

Joe Walsh – vocals, keyboards, guitars

Joe Vitale – keyboards, drums, percussion, vocals, lead vocals (11)

Waddy Wachtel – guitars (5)

Rick Rosas – bass (1-4, 6-11), vocals

George "Chocolate" Perry – bass (5)

Chad Cromwell – drums, percussion

Otis Lawrence – saxophones

Kelly Hurt – backing vocals

Lavestia Miller – backing vocals

Al Paris – backing vocals

Jeffrey Rogers – backing vocals

Joe Walsh – producer

Joe Vitale – producer

Scott MacLellan – executive producer

Dave Reynolds – recording, mixing

Jim Nipar – recording (5)

Bill Szymczyk – recording (5)

Tim Ray – recording assistant, mix assistant

Jim Stabile – recording assistant

John Walls – recording assistant, mix assistant

Vlado Meller – mastering

David Coleman – art direction

Alan Messer – photography

Patrick Cullie – barn photography

Willie Gibson – barn photography

Studios

Recorded at Pyramid Recording Studio (Lookout Mountain, Tennessee) and Kiva Recording Studio (Memphis, Tennessee).

Mixed at Kiva Recording Studio

Mastered at Sony Music Studios (New York City, New York).

Ordinary Average Guy is the 9th solo studio album, and its title-track single (second on the playlist), by American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Joe Walsh. The album was released in mid 1991. It was Walsh's first album of entirely new music since Got Any Gum? in 1987, and his first solo album to be issued internationally by Epic following a four-year alliance with Warner Bros. Records in the United States and Canada. The album features Ringo Starr, Survivor's lead vocalist Jimi Jamison, and the drummer Joe Vitale from Walsh's former band Barnstorm. Vitale also sings the lead vocals on the final track of the album, "School Days".