Delaney & Bonnie - "Groupie"

D&B Together is a 1972 album by Delaney & Bonnie and Friends. It was their last album of new material, as Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett would divorce soon after its release.

Although released by Columbia/CBS (catalog no. KC 31377), D&B Together was actually recorded for the Atco/Atlantic label, under the working title Country Life. According to his autobiography Rhythm and the Blues, Atlantic executive Jerry Wexler was dissatisfied with the album's quality upon its delivery to the label, and, upon investigating the situation and discovering Delaney and Bonnie were splitting up, sold their contract - including this album's master tapes - to CBS.[2] CBS reordered the running sequence of the album as shown below. On reflecting on the matter in 2003, Delaney Bramlett was quoted as saying "I thought [D&B Together] was a fine piece of work, so did Bonnie. Unfortunately, Jerry Wexler didn't agree."[3]

Guest musicians on the album include Eric Clapton, Leon Russell, Duane Allman, Dave Mason, John Hartford, Billy Preston, Tina Turner, and Steve Cropper. The standout tracks (all issued prior to the album's release as singles on Atco/Atlantic) are "Move 'Em Out," "Only You Know and I Know," "Comin' Home," and "Groupie (Superstar)." (The inclusion of the last three tracks on this album is somewhat incongruous, as they date back to Delaney and Bonnie's first recording sessions for Atco/Atlantic in September 1969. Delaney and Bonnie were still under contract with Elektra Records when these recordings were made; these songs' master tapes were subsequently purchased by Atco/Atlantic, and transferred to Atlantic by Elektra on 10 November 1969.)