Edwin Milam - synth cello
Monkey Bidness Music
A Noose
J.F. Nichols - 1982 Thurnic Music Co.
Ray Crabtree - drums, percussion; Bill Davidson - bass, castanets, backing vocal;
Jere Ellis - acoustic and electric guitars
John Nichols - electric piano, organ, lead and backing vocals
Check out the Dirty Quarters recording of an old song by John ... John has, a couple of times, also done the socio-political thing ... This his anti-capital punishment anthem ... Written while walking down what used to be the railbed of the old Tennessee Central Railroad, the area is now Interstate 440 in Nashville, it was another piece written in his head, to be charted when John got home ...
The song was intended to be an acoustic, country song, but when Ray and Bill heard it, they suggested a rock treatment, and this arrangement was born ...