What If (Dixie Dregs album)

What If
Studio album by Dixie Dregs
Released	March 1978
Recorded	1978
Studio	Chateau Recorders
Genre	Jazz fusion, instrumental rock
Length	39:46
Label	Capricorn
Producer	Ken Scott
Dixie Dregs chronology
Free Fall (1977) What If (1978) Night of the Living Dregs (1979)

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Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[2]

What If is the second studio album by the jazz fusion band Dixie Dregs, released in 1978.

Track listing[]

1. "Take It Off the Top" (Steve Morse) – 4:07
2. "Odyssey" (Morse) – 7:35^[3]
3. "What If" (Morse) – 5:01
4. "Travel Tunes" (Andy West) – 4:34
5. "Ice Cakes" (Morse) – 4:39
6. "Little Kids" (Morse) – 2:03
7. "Gina Lola Breakdown" (Morse, T. Lyndon) – 4:00
8. "Night Meets Light" (Morse) – 7:47

Personnel[]

• Steve Morse – guitar, banjo
• Mark Parrish – keyboards
• Allen Sloan – violin, viola
• Andy West – bass guitar
• Rod Morgenstein – drums, vocals

Production[]

• Assistant engineers – Brian Leshon, Chris Gregg, Gary Coppola^[4]
• Mastered By – SR/2*
• Recorded At – Chateau Recorders

Notes[]

• "What If" and "Ice Cakes" are re-recordings from the band's 1976 demo record The Great Spectacular.
• The lead track "Take It Off the Top" was used as the theme song for the Friday Rock Show for most of the show's run (from 1978 to 1993).
• American heavy metal guitarist James Murphy covered "Odyssey" on his Feeding the Machine solo album.
• Progressive metal band Dream Theater covered "Odyssey" for the special edition of their 10th studio album Black Clouds & Silver Linings.

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