Stealers Wheel (album)

Stealers Wheel is the debut studio album by Scottish folk rock band Stealers Wheel. It was released on 17 November 1972 by A&M Records. The album was a critical and commercial success, reaching No. 50 in the US Billboard 200 album chart, with their hit single "Stuck in the Middle with You" coming from the album.

The cover painting is by John Patrick Byrne. The words "Stealers Wheel" are embedded ten times in the design, in addition to the large lettering in the bottom left-hand corner (eleven in total). The album has each member of the band's heads on different animals (clockwise from top left: Rod Coombes as a zebra, Paul Pilnick as a bird, Tony Williams as a rabbit, Joe Egan as a lion, and Gerry Rafferty as a tiger).

Personnel
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Stealers Wheel
with:
 * Gerry Rafferty - guitar, lead vocals
 * Joe Egan - keyboards, guitar, lead vocals
 * Paul Pilnick - lead guitar, rhythm guitar (on "I Get By")
 * Tony Williams - bass
 * Rod Coombes - drums
 * Iain Campbell - bass
 * Luther Grosvenor - lap steel guitar (on "Stuck In The Middle With You"), lead guitar (on "I Get By"), acoustic guitar, harmony and backing vocals (on "Late Again")
 * (uncredited - saxophone)

Production

 * Geoff Emerick, John Mills - engineering. The album went on to receive the European Edison Award for recording excellence.