Track Listing
1. Story, A
2. Loneliness
3. Will You Touch Me
4. Dogtown
5. Tomorrow May Never Come
6. Yes, I'm a Witch
7. She Gets Down on Her Knees
8. It Happened
9. Winter Friend
10. Heartburn Stew
11. Hard Times Are Over
12. Anatano Te / Your Hands - (previously unreleased)
13. Extension 33 - (previously unreleased)
14. Now or Never - (previously unreleased)
| Details | | Playing Time: | 43 min. | | Contributing Artists: | Alan Rubin, David Spinozza, George Young, Gordon Edwards, Kenneth Ascher, Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker | | Producer: | David Spinozza, Yoko Ono | | Distributor: | Ryko Distribution | | Recording Type: | Mixed | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: Yoko Ono (vocals, piano); Hugh McCracken, David Spinozza (guitar); Joseph DeChristopher, Peter Eggers, Edward Fox, R. Kenneth Price, Michael Robison, David Thoreau Rose (strings); George Young (flute, clarinet); Michael Brecker (tenor saxophone); Lewis Del Gatto (baritone saxophone, bass clarinet); Randy Brecker, Alan Rubin (trumpet); Kenneth Ascher, Leon Pendarvis (keyboards); Gordon Edwards (bass); Rick Marrotta (drums); Arthur Jenkins (percussion); Erin Dickens, Gail Kantor, Louise Messina, Ann E. Sutton, Something Different (background vocals).
Principally recorded at Record Plant, New York, New York in 1974 and live in Budapest, Hungary in 1986.
Digitally remastered by George Marino and Rob Stevens, Sterling Sound, New York, New York.
A continuation of the 1992 compilation WALKING ON THIN ICE, with which it shares no tracks, A STORY is a fine precis of the '80s and '90s work of possibly the most misunderstood artist in the history of popular music. The album lacks the sonic aggression and playful anarchy of her '60s performance art and early collaborations with John Lennon, as well as the seething anger of her '70s free-jazz-influenced rock & roll albums. Considering that it came after new wave and post-punk artists who were audibly influenced by her trailblazing efforts, Ono's late work simply doesn't sound terribly weird! The songs on A STORY are Ono's rapprochement with the pop mainstream, and while they're typically direct and unflinchingly honest, her plainspoken, often aggressive lyrics are here set in attractive, pleasant synth-oriented pop music. Highlights include the wistful "Hard Times Are Over" and the defiant "She Gets Down on Her Knees."
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