Bread Retrospective

Product Description:

RETROSPECTIVE includes classic Bread songs as well as tracks from solo projects of former Bread members.

Bread: David Gates (vocals, guitar, violin, keyboards, bass); James Griffin (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Larry Knechtel (guitar, harmonica, keyboards, bass); Robb Royer (guitar, keyboards, bass); Mike Botts (drums, percussion).

Additional personnel: Jim Gordon (drums).

James Griffin personnel: James Griffin (electric guitar); David Gates (12-string guitar, bass); Robb Royer, David Cohen (guitar); Larry Knechtel (keyboards).

David Gates personnel: David Gates (guitar, keyboards, bass); Dan Dugmore (steel guitar); Hadley Hockensmith (guitar, bass); Larry Carlton, Louie Shelton, Dean Parks, Robin Williamson (guitar); David Lindley (fiddle); Jimmy Getzoff (strings); Jim Horn, Tom Scott (alto saxophone); Dick Hyde (bass trumpet); Chuck Findley (flugelhorn); Larry Knechtel (keyboards, bass); David Miner (bass); Mike Botts, Paul Leim (drums, percussion); Jim Gordon, John Guerin, Russ Kunkel (drums); Craig Gates (percussion).

Producers: Bread, David Gates, James Griffin, Robb Royer, James Griffin.

Compilation producers: Bread, David McLees, Bill Inglot.

Engineers include: Bruce Botnick, Armin Steiner, Ed Barton.

Recorded at Elektra Sound Recorders and DG Studios, Los Angeles, California; Sound Recorders, Id Sound Studios and Wally Heider Studios, Hollywood, California. Includes liner notes by Barry Alfonso.

It may have been the late rock critic Lester Bangs who first applied the tag "wimp rock" to the session men-turned-AM radio stars of Bread. They were an easy target, and the appellation stuck. Even at the band's most impassioned, rocking out wasn't the point; instead, Bread made some of the finest, most enduring soft rock singles ever.

Delicate, acoustic-based love songs such as "Make it With You" and "If" sound like they could have been recorded at any point in the last few decades. This handsomely-packaged two-disc set collects all of Bread's singles, both charting and otherwise, along with significant album tracks, rarities, and a handful of solo recordings made after Bread's late-'70s breakup, including David Gates' hit movie theme "The Goodbye Girl," in excellently remastered sound.