COWBOY:
5'll Getcha Ten

Original release:
LP: Capricorn SD-864 (1971)

Other releases:
LP: Capricorn / Atlantic ATL 40312 (SD 864) (1971) (Germany)


CD: Real Gone Music RGM-0320 (2014)

Duane Allman plays on tracks 6 & 11.

The recording sessions took place at Capricorn Sound Studios, Macon, GA and Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, Sheffield, AL.

From Scott Schinder's liner notes of the 2014 CD release:

Frequent Capricorn session keyboardist Chuck Leavell, who would end up joining the Allman Brothers Band following Duane Allman’s death a few months later, plays on six of the album’s twelve tracks, adding stately piano work alongside fellow guest Duane’s electric vibrato guitar on Boyer’s moody “Lookin’ For You.”

and:

Cowboy's version of "Please Be With Me" features Duane Allman on dobro, although he was credited on the original album as "Fini Crodo," for reasons that have grown hazy in the years since. Two takes of the song were recorded; the second, slower version is on "5'll Getcha Ten." The first take ended up on 1972's "Duane Allman: An Anthology," released in the wake of Duane's fatal motorcycle crash in October 1971.

On December 27, 2014 Tommy Talton of "Cowboy" contacted us by email, and confirmed that Duane Allman plays dobro on "Please Be With Me" and the 'vibrato' guitar on "Lookin' For You."
All the other guitars on the album are played by Pete Kowalke, Tommy Talton and Scott Boyer [and Bill Pillmore on 2 tracks]:

LOOKIN' FOR YOU: (writer: C.S. Boyer)
Scott Boyer - Lead Vocal, Acoustic Guitar
Tommy Talton - Harmony Vocal, Electric Volume Pedal Guitar, Percussion
Duane Allman - Vibrato Guitar
Pete Kowalke - Electric Guitar Solo
Chuck Leavell - Piano
George Clark - Bass
Tom Wynn - Drums

PLEASE BE WITH ME: (writer: C.S. Boyer)
Scott Boyer - Lead Vocal, Acoustic Guitar
Tommy Talton - Acoustic Guitar, Harmony Vocal
Duane Allman - Dobro
George Clark - Acoustic Bass, Harmony Vocal

Before playing "Please Be With Me" at the March 17, 2009 Allman Brothers Band concert at the Beacon Theatre in New York, Scott Boyer of "Cowboy" told in his announcement that this song was recorded in Muscle Shoals, AL.

The booklet of the 7-CD box set 'Skydog: The Duane Allman Retrospective' (Rounder Records 11661-9137-2, 2013) shows that "Please Be With Me" was recorded in August 1971 at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Sheffield, AL [Muscle Shoals].

And on January 1, 2015 Tommy Talton confirmed us by email that "Lookin' For You" was recorded at Capricorn Studios in Macon, GA.

In 2009 Michael Buffalo Smith interviewed Pete Kowalke, guitar player of 'Cowboy'.
The interview was published on:
http://swampland.com/articles/view/title:
pete_kowalke_of_cowboy_the_gritz_interview
and in Michael Buffalo Smith's book "Capricorn Rising" (Mercer University Press, Macon, GA, 2016, page 175):

What are your memories of recording the second album?
On the second album, 5’ll Getcha Ten, I had a bit more influence. The songs were a bit more advanced. Still, just great fun.At times I was probably a pain in the butt, because sometimes I would think I wanted to do harder rock. But in the end, I really enjoyed and benefitted from the country rock sound we had.

I thought the album was just great, still do. Certainly magical things happened. Like Tommy’s lead guitar on my song “What I Want is You.” Like the ending of “Looking for You,” where very subtly me, Duane and Chuck Leavell did some stuff that just blended into one thing - really, really special stuff. And Pete Carr gave me the idea to use a volume pedal and fade notes in and out during the end of “Looking for You.” And there were a host of other great spots.

Although Duane Allman and Chuck Leavell both play on "Lookin' For You", they didn't record together at the same time.
In his book "Between Rock And A Home Place" (Evergreen Arts, 2004) Chuck Leavell writes on pages 87 & 88:
"The only time I met Duane was sort of a prophetic moment. Some of the Capricorn crowd was up in Muscle Shoals working on an album by the group Cowboy, which was led by Tommy Talton and Scott Boyer. . . . . . .
. . . . . When their first album was being recorded [in fact it was their second album] and produced by Johnny Sandlin, whom I'd befriended, I was asked to come in to play on some of the sessions. Johnny also convinced Duane to participate and add some Dobro on the track Please Be With Me.
He had finished his session and I was just arriving to do my part. When I came into the studio, I went down a hallway that let to the control room, out of which popped Duane. I had never met him and was reluctant to just stop him and get into a whole conversation, so when we passed each other I just smiled and nodded to him saying, "Hey, man."
He smiled back with a nod as well, and that was it. Still there was something special about it, at least for me. It's the only time Duane and I were alone. . . . . ."