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First Taste of Sin is the third album by the Oakland, California band Cold Blood , and their first for Reprise Records .[ 2] This album is noted for being produced by soul singer/musician Donny Hathaway .[ 3] It also includes the original version of Hathaway's "Valdez in the Country", which Hathaway himself would record the next year for his 1973 album Extension of a Man .[ 4]
Side A Title Writer(s) 1. "Visions" Donny Baldwin, Boroquez 3:19 2. "Lo and Behold" James Taylor 4:12 3. "Down to the Bone" Danny Hull, Cecil Stoltie 5:19 4. "You Had to Know" Donny Hathaway 5:47
Side B Title Writer(s) 5. "My Lady Woman" Hull, Stoltie 4:01 6. "No Way Home" Hull, Raul Matule 3:23 7. "Inside Your Soul" Max Haskett 3:26 8. "All My Honey" Hull, Stoltie 3:27 9. "Valdez in the Country" Hathaway 3:44 Total length: 36:38[ 5]
Lydia Pense - lead vocals
Sandy McKee - drums, vocals
Raul Matute - organ, piano
Rod Ellicott - bass
Michael Sasaki - guitar
Paul Beaver - Moog synthesizer
Mel Martin - flute, tenor and baritone saxophone
Danny Hull, Pete Christlieb - tenor saxophone
Bill Baker - alto and baritone saxophone
Gordon Messick, Pat O'Hara - trombone
Max Haskett - trumpet, vocals
Bill Atwood - trumpet
Ernest Diridoni - tuba
Donny Hathaway - piano, organ
Pete Escovedo - congas
Coke Escovedo - timbales, percussion
Technical
Richard Moore - engineer
Wally Heider - recording
Marty Evans - cover photography
^ Collins, Paul. Cold Blood: First Taste of Sin Review at AllMusic . Retrieved 19 August 2011.
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