First Taste of Sin

First Taste of Sin is the third album by the Oakland, California band Cold Blood, and their first for Reprise Records.^[2] This album is noted for being produced by soul singer/musician Donny Hathaway.^[3] It also includes the original version of Hathaway's "Valdez in the Country", which Hathaway himself would record the next year for his 1973 album Extension of a Man.^[4]

First Taste of Sin
Studio album by Cold Blood
Released	1972
Recorded	1972
Studio	Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco & Los Angeles, California
Genre	Soul, rock, jazz
Length	36:38
Label	Reprise Records
Producer	Donny Hathaway
Cold Blood chronology
Sisyphus (1971) First Taste of Sin (1972) Thriller (1973)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Track listing

Side A

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Visions"	Donny Baldwin, Boroquez	3:19
2.	"Lo and Behold"	James Taylor	4:12
3.	"Down to the Bone"	Danny Hull, Cecil Stoltie	5:19
4.	"You Had to Know"	Donny Hathaway	5:47

Side B

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
5.	"My Lady Woman"	Hull, Stoltie	4:01
6.	"No Way Home"	Hull, Raul Matule	3:23
7.	"Inside Your Soul"	Max Haskett	3:26
8.	"All My Honey"	Hull, Stoltie	3:27
9.	"Valdez in the Country"	Hathaway	3:44
Total length:			36:38[5]

Personnel

• Lydia Pense - lead vocals
• Sandy McKee - drums, vocals
• Raul Matute - organ, piano
• Rod Ellicott - bass
• Michael Sasaki - guitar
• Paul Beaver - Moog synthesizer
• Mel Martin - flute, tenor and baritone saxophone
• Danny Hull, Pete Christlieb - tenor saxophone
• Bill Baker - alto and baritone saxophone
• Gordon Messick, Pat O'Hara - trombone
• Max Haskett - trumpet, vocals
• Bill Atwood - trumpet
• Ernest Diridoni - tuba
• Donny Hathaway - piano, organ
• Pete Escovedo - congas
• Coke Escovedo - timbales^{[check spelling]}, percussion

Technical

• Richard Moore - engineer
• Wally Heider - recording
• Marty Evans - cover photography

Charts

Chart (1972)	Peak position
Billboard Pop Albums[6]	133