It'll Shine When It Shines

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It'll Shine When It Shines
Studio album by The Ozark Mountain Daredevils
Released	October 1974
Recorded	1974
Genre	Country rock[1]
Length	44:03
Label	A&M
Producer	Glyn Johns David Anderle
The Ozark Mountain Daredevils chronology
The Ozark Mountain Daredevils (1973) It'll Shine When It Shines (1974) The Car Over the Lake Album (1975)

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It'll Shine When It Shines is the second album by the American country rock band The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, released in 1974.

Their debut album had been successful enough to give the band the clout to record their follow-up effort on the musicians' home turf. For the session, they cut their tracks in the pre-Civil War farmhouse that served as their rehearsal space, with producers Glyn Johns and David Anderle working from a mobile recording truck parked outside. The homey makeshift setup yielded a loose, organic vibe that invigorated material like Steve Cash's tongue-in-cheek swamp-rocker "E.E. Lawson".

This album contains the band's biggest single, "Jackie Blue", which reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1975. The song was brought in by Larry Lee late in the session and recorded at the insistence of Johns, who cajoled Lee into altering his original lyrics about a drug-dealing friend into a fond ode to a free-spirited female loner.