The House That Blackwood Built-The Blackwood Apology-MMHC Legends Series

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''1969 was the year that Dale Menten (music) and Frederick Gaines (script) wrote and produced the rock musical “House of Leather.”
The show was set in a house of prostitution before, during, and after the Civil War. I was shocked to find a program among my mother’s souvenirs!
THE ALBUM
The House of Leather LP by Blackwood Apology was written by Dale Menten and recorded at Kay Bank Studios. The album was recorded under the Castaways’ Mercury/Fontana Records contract, with studio musicians Ron Beckman on bass, Tom “Foot” Husting on guitars with Menten, Denny Craswell on drums with Elliott Fine on the 6/8 time signature Civil War cut, Gregory Dee Maland on the Hammond organ parts, and Dennis Libby on grand and electric piano. Maland’s hospitalization for lung failure caused them to use Bob Schultz, engineer and choir director, to fill in on a few harmony parts in Maland’s absence.
They were dubbed Blackwood Apology.
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Beautiful song.

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Thanks so much Tammy. Glad you enjoyed it