Who Are Those Guys?


Who Are Those Guys? is the eighth studio album and tenth album overall by the country rock band the New Riders of the Purple Sage. It was recorded at the Record Plant in Sausalito, California, in October and November 1976. It was produced by Bob Johnston, and released by MCA Records in 1977.
Who Are Those Guys? was the first New Riders album to feature Stephen Love on bass guitar. The band's previous bass player, Skip Battin, had left to join the Flying Burrito Brothers. Love, a former member of Rick Nelson's Stone Canyon Band, wrote three of the songs on the album, and sings lead on six of the album's ten tracks. A fourth original song, "Home Grown", was written by drummer Spencer Dryden. The NRPS lineup for Who Are Those Guys? also included John "Marmaduke" Dawson, David Nelson, and Buddy Cage. Until Where I Come From was released in 2009, this was the only New Riders album that did not have any songs written by Dawson.

Track listing

  1. "I Can Heal You" – 3:20
  2. "High Rollers" – 2:46
  3. "Peggy Sue" – 2:37
  4. " Another Night in Reno" – 2:57
  5. "It Never Hurts to Be Nice to Somebody" – 3:02
  6. "Love Has Strange Ways" – 2:47
  7. "Hold On It's Coming" – 4:15
  8. "By and By when I Need You" – 2:08
  9. "Home Grown" – 2:35
  10. "Red Hot Women and Ice Cold Beer" – 2:40

Personnel

New Riders of the Purple Sage

Additional musicians

  • John Hug – guitar
  • Bill Stewart – drums

Production