Down Here on the Ground

Down Here on the Ground
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 1968[1]
RecordedDecember 20, 1967 – January 26, 1968
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
GenreJazz
Length31:11
LabelA&M
ProducerCreed Taylor
Wes Montgomery chronology
A Day in the Life
(1967)
Down Here on the Ground
(1968)
Road Song
(1968)

Down Here on the Ground is an album by the jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery, released in 1968. It reached number one on the Billboard Jazz album chart and number 4 on the R&B chart. It also reached number 38 on the Billboard 200.

The song "Down Here on the Ground" is Montgomery's version of the theme song from the movie Cool Hand Luke, by Lalo Schifrin.[2]

  1. ^ "Billboard". April 27, 1968.
  2. ^ Woodard, Josef (July–August 2005). "Wes Montgomery: The Softer Side of Genius'". JazzTimes.