Common Sense

Tracklist

• 1
  Middleman
  2:33
• 2
  Common Sense
  3:12
  5.0 ★
• 3
  Come Back to Us Barbara Lewis Hare Krishna Beauregard
  3:20
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Wedding Day in Funeralville
  2:31
  3.0 ★
• 5
  Way Down
  2:24
• 6
  My Own Best Friend
  3:16
• 7
  Forbidden Jimmy
  2:55
• 8
  Saddle in the Rain
  3:34
  4.0 ★
• 9
  That Close to You
  2:47
• 10
  He Was in Heaven Before He Died
  2:15
• 11
  You Never Can Tell
  3:16

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Release credits

• Al Bunetta
  background vocals [11]
• Alan Hand
  background vocals [11], piano [7-8]
• Andrew Love
  horn [1, 8]
• Bonnie Raitt
  vocal [3]
• Brooks Hunnicutt
  background vocals [7-9]
• Carl Marsh
  strings [2, 5]
• Chuck Findley
  horn [9, 11]
• Danny Cronin
  background vocals [11]
• Donald “Duck” Dunn
  bass [7-8]
• Glenn Frey
  background vocals [2, 4], electric guitar [6]
• Greg Jackson
  background vocals [11]
• Gwen Edwards
  background vocals [7-9]
• Herb Pedersen
  background vocals [4]
• J.D. Souther
  background vocals [2, 4]
• Jack Hale
  horn [1, 7-8]
• Jackie Kelso
  horn [9, 11]
• Jackson Browne
  background vocals [2]
• James Brown
  organ [2-9], piano [1, 5], reed organ [10]
• James Mitchell
  horn [1, 8]
• Jim Horn
  horn [9, 11]
• John Prine
  acoustic guitar [3, 8], background vocals [11], vocal [3, 8]
• Larry Muhoberac
  piano [2-4, 6, 9, 11]
• Leo LeBlanc
  steel guitar [2-3, 5, 9-10]
• Lewis Collins
  horn [1, 8]
• Mayuto Correa
  congas [7-8], percussion [7]
• Pat Coulter
  background vocals [7-9]
• Paul Cannon
  electric guitar [1-6, 9, 11]
• Peter Bunetta
  background vocals [11], membranophone [1-9, 11], percussion [7]
• Rick Vito
  electric guitar [1-2, 4-6, 9, 11], slide guitar [3, 5-6], solo [5]
• Steve Cropper
  electric guitar [8], producer
• Steve Goodman
  acoustic guitar [1-2, 10], background vocals [10], electric guitar [3, 7-8]
• Steve Spear
  bass [10]
• Tommy Cathey
  bass [1-6, 9, 11]
• Wayne Jackson
  horn [1, 7-8]
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Issues

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  Common Sense

  12" Vinyl
  1975
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  Common Sense

  CD (medium: made in U.S.A. by WEA Manufacturing Inc.)
  7 July 1991
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  Common Sense

  CD (back: distributed by Warner Music Canada)
  28 April 1992
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  Common Sense

  Digital Media
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  Common Sense

  CD (back: distributed by Warner Music Canada, medium: made in U.S.A. by WEA Manufacturing Inc., matrix: made in Canada)