title: Pick Up a Bone
text: # Pick Up a Bone
  
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  Pick Up a Bone is the first album by Rupert Hine, released in 1971. Pick Up a Bone was the only album by Hine that he did not produce himself.
  
  ## Reception
  
  In its obituary of Hine, The Guardian wrote that "listeners remained un-stirred by [the album's] somewhat gauche folk-rock."
  
  ## Track listing
  
  All compositions by Rupert Hine (music) & David MacIver (lyrics), except "Pick up a Bone" (music by Rupert Hine & Simon Jeffes).
  
  * "Landscape"
  * "Ass All"
  * "Me You Mine"
  * "Scarecrow"
  * "Kerosene"
  * "Running Away"
  * "Medicine Munday"
  * "More Than One, Less Than Five"
  * "Boo Boo's Faux Pas"
  * "Pick Up a Bone"
  * "Intense Muse"
  
  ## Personnel
  
  All rhythm track arrangements:
  
  * Paul Buckmaster
  
  Orchestral arrangements
  
  * Paul Buckmaster (3,4,5 & 8)
  * Peter Robinson (2 & 7)
  * Del Newman (1)
  
  Saxophone arrangement
  
  * Simon Jeffes (9)
  
  Director of the Orchestra
  
  * David Katz
  
  Rhythm section
  
  * Rupert Hine — Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica
  * Simon Jeffes — Acoustic, Electric & Slide Guitars
  * David MacIver — Guitar
  * Peter Robinson — Piano, Organ
  * Pete Morgan — Acoustic & Electric Bass
  * Terry Cox — Drums
  
  Featured Musicians
  
  * Clive Hicks, Eric Ford & Joe Moretti — Guitars
  * Steve Hammond — Electric Guitar & Banjo
  * Paul Buckmaster — Electric Cello
  * Eddie Mordue & Roy Willox — Saxophone, Flute
  * Raul Mayora — Congas, Bells & etc.
  * Roger Glover — Tambourine
  * Barry de Sousa — Drums & introducing—The MacIver-Hine Chorale
  