Laminar Flow is the twenty-first album by Roy Orbison recorded at Wishbone Recording Studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama and released in 1979 on the Asylum Records label. It was the last album of new material Orbison would release in his lifetime. His next studio effort, In Dreams, featured re-recordings of old Orbison hits while Mystery Girl and King of Hearts, his final collections of all-new material, were released posthumously.

Laminar Flow
Studio album by Roy Orbison
Released	May 16, 1979
Recorded	1978–79
Genre	Pop
Length	34:20
Label	Asylum
Producer	Clayton Ivey, Terry Woodford
Roy Orbison chronology
Regeneration (1976) Laminar Flow (1979) Class of '55 (1986)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Rolling Stone	(unfavorable) [2]

Track listing

Side One

1. "Easy Way Out" – (Jim Valentini, Frank Saulino, Spady Brannan)
2. "Love Is a Cold Wind" – (Charlie Black, Rory Bourke)
3. "Lay It Down" – (Robert Byrne, Tommy Brasfield)
4. "I Care" – (Lenny LeBlanc, Eddie Struzick)
5. "We're Into Something Good" – (George Soulé, Terry Woodford)
6. "Movin'" – (Roy Orbison, Chris Price)

Side Two

1. "Poor Baby" – (Roy Orbison, Chris Price, Regi Price)
2. "Warm Spot Hot" – (Eddie Struzick)
3. "Tears" – (Roy Orbison, Chris Price, Dan Price, Regi Price)
4. "Friday Night" – (Regi Price, Chris Price)
5. "Hound Dog Man" – (Barbara Orbison, Terry Woodford, Tommy Stuart)

Personnel

• Roy Orbison – vocals
• Larry Byrom, Mac McAnally – acoustic guitar
• Bill Hinds, Robert Byrne, Tippy Armstrong – guitar
• Lenny LeBlanc – drums, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
• Bob Wray, Lonnie Ledford – bass guitar
• Clayton Ivey – keyboards
• Roger Clark – drums, synthesizer
• Mickey Buckins, Tom Roady – percussion
• Jim Horn – tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone
• Harvey Thompson – tenor saxophone
• Ronald Eades – baritone saxophone
• Harrison Calloway – trumpet
• Charles Rose – trombone
• Barbara Wyrick, Chris Price, Eddie Struzick, Marie Tomlinson, Robert Byrne, Suzy Storm, Terry Woodford – backing vocals

References