One of My Favorite Albums of All Time

Blows Against the Empire is a concept album by Paul Kantner and Grace Slick, released under the name Paul Kantner and Jefferson Starship, the first album to use the "Starship" name, although the personnel line-up was not the same as would appear on the first actual Jefferson Starship album.

Personnel

• Paul Kantner – vocals, electric guitars, acoustic guitars, banjo, bass machine
• Grace Slick – piano, vocals
• Jerry Garcia – banjo on "Let's Go Together", pedal steel guitar on "Have You Seen the Stars Tonite", sound effects and vocals on "XM", lead guitar on "Starship"
• Bill Kreutzmann – drums on "Let's Go Together"
• Mickey Hart – percussion on "Have You Seen the Stars Tonite", sound effects and vocals on "XM"
• Joey Covington – drums and vocals on "Mau Mau", congas on "Hijack"
• Jack Casady – bass on "A Child Is Coming" and "Sunrise"
• David Crosby – vocals and guitar on "A Child Is Coming" and "Have You Seen the Stars Tonite", background vocals on "Starship"
• Graham Nash – congas on "Hijack", sound effects on "Home", background vocals on "Starship"
• David Freiberg – background vocals on "Starship"
• Harvey Brooks – bass on "Starship"
• Peter Kaukonen – lead guitar on "Mau Mau"
• Phill Sawyer^[9] – sound effects on "Home" and "XM"

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Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Mau Mau (Amerikon)"	Paul Kantner, Grace Slick, Joey Covington	6:33
2.	"The Baby Tree"	Rosalie Sorrels	1:42
3.	"Let's Go TogetherA"	Kantner	4:11
4.	"A Child Is Coming"	Kantner, Slick, David Crosby	6:15

Side two: Blows Against the Empire
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Sunrise"	Slick	1:54
2.	"Hijack"	Kantner, Slick, Marty Balin, Gary Blackman	8:18
3.	"Home"	Kantner, Phill Sawyer, Graham Nash	0:37
4.	"Have You Seen the Stars Tonite?"	Kantner, Crosby	3:42
5.	"XM"	Kantner, Sawyer, Jerry Garcia, Mickey Hart	1:22
6.	"Starship"	Kantner, Slick, Balin, Blackman	7:07