The Doors, LA Woman
The DoorsL.A. WOMAN.
L.A. Woman moved the Doors out of a conventional studio and into their own rehearsal space, where engineer Bruce Botnick helped capture a looser, blues-heavy final album with Jim Morrison.
Album artwork shown for commentary and historical reference. Image source: Cover Art Archive / MusicBrainz.
SEVEN THINGS
WORTH KNOWING.
Recording stories, personnel, physical details and numbers worth keeping with the record.
L.A. Woman was released on April 19, 1971 and contains 10 tracks.
The Doors produced the album with Bruce Botnick.
Much of the record was made in the band's own rehearsal space, known as the Doors Workshop.
Bassist Jerry Scheff plays on the sessions, adding a dedicated electric-bass role to the recordings.
Marc Benno contributes rhythm guitar on selected tracks.
The album includes "Love Her Madly," "Riders on the Storm" and the title track "L.A. Woman."
L.A. Woman was the final Doors studio album released during Jim Morrison's lifetime.
WHY THIS
ALBUM MATTERS.
L.A. Woman sounds less controlled than several earlier Doors albums because the band returned to a room-based, blues-centered approach that let the rhythm section and Morrison's voice breathe.
THE
NUMBERS.
TRACKS
The album contains ten songs.
RELEASE
L.A. Woman arrived in April 1971.
FINAL MORRISON LP
It was the last Doors studio album released during Morrison's lifetime.
THE
PHYSICAL OBJECT.
The transparent-window style of the original package and the group portrait create a strangely fragile object for an album that would become the final studio statement of the classic lineup.
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