Badger (UK) : White Lady

IT'S SO HARD 

TO SAY NO,

IT'S SO HARD 

TO SAY NO..

IT'S SO HARD

TO SAY NO 

TO THE WHITE LADY

 Badger

 were a British

 rock band 

from the early 1970s.

 The band was founded by

 keyboardist

 Tony Kaye

 after he left Yes, 

along with bassist 

and vocalist 

David Foster.

Background

David Foster

 had been in

 the Warriors

 with

 Jon Anderson

 before Anderson

 co-founded Yes.

 Foster later worked with

 the band 

on their second album 

Time and a Word 

(1970).

 Kaye had worked on

 a solo project 

by Foster 

that was

 never released.

The pair found drummer 

Roy Dyke, 

formerly of

 Ashton, Gardner and Dyke, 

and Dyke 

suggested guitarist 

and vocalist 

Brian Parrish

 formerly of

 Parrish & Gurvitz

 which later became

 Frampton's Camel

 (after Parrish left P&G)

on guitar.

 The new band 

began rehearsing in 

September 1972 

and signed to

 Atlantic Records.

One Live Badger 

(1973)

Badger's first release 

was the

 live album, 

One Live Badger, 

produced by 

Jon Anderson 

and 

Geoffrey Haslam,

 and was taken from 

a show opening for

 Yes 

at London's

 Rainbow Theatre.

White Lady (1974)

By 1974,

 the band had

 been reduced to

 Kaye and Dyke. 

They recruited bassist

 Kim Gardner, 

who had worked with

 Dyke in

 Ashton, Gardner and Dyke.

 Paul Pilnick, 

formerly of 

Stealers Wheel, 

joined on guitar, 

as did singer 

Jackie Lomax.

Lomax proceeded to

 turn them into the type of

 R&B/soul band

 he had used on

 his solo albums. 

The band became a

 vehicle for

 Lomax's songs

 and singing.

 During this period, 

they released one album, 

White Lady, 

on Epic Records, 

produced by 

Allen Toussaint. 

All ten songs 

were written or 

co-written 

by Lomax.

 Guests on the album

 included Jeff Beck

 contributing a 

guitar solo

 to the title track

However, 

before the album's release,

 the band had split into

 two factions, 

with Lomax and Gardner

 leading a 

short-lived band

 called

 White Lady,

 before Lomax 

returned to a

 solo career.

"White Lady" 

b/w

 "Don't Pull the Trigger" 

was released as

 a single in

 May 1974. 

The album was

 issued in June.

White Lady

• Tony Kaye : keyboards, minimoog, mellotron
• Jackie Lomax : vocals, rhythm guitar
• Paul Pilnick : lead guitar
• Kim Gardner : bass guitar
• Roy Dyke : drums

Additional musicians

• Jeff Beck lead guitar on "White Lady"
• Barry Bailey slide guitar on "Don't pull the trigger", "White Lady", "Be with you" and "Lord Who Give Me Life"
• Allen Toussaint horns, congas, piano, organ, background vocals
• Carl Blouin baritone saxophone, flute
• Alvin Thomas tenor saxophone
• Lester Caliste trumpet
• John Lango trombone
• Joan Harmon, Mercedes Davis, Teresipa Henry : background vocals
• Jessie Smith and Bobby Montgomery : background vocals on "Everybody Nobody" and "One More Dream To Hold"

TRACKLIST

• A Dream of you 
• Everybody Nobody 
• Listen to me 
• Don't pull the trigger 
• Just the way it goes 
• White Lady 
• Be with you 
• Lord Who Give Me Life 
• One More Dream To Hold 
• The Hole Thing 

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