From: Hot A' Mighty! ; Year: 1973; Genre: Country/Rock Mr. Reed will always be an artist that really is difficult to pigeon-hole into a single genre, which is true of the majority of "pickers." Basically pickers were wot people referred to your more "down home" guitar/stringed virtuosos that came out of the folky styles of music like folk, blues, country, and early rock 'n roll. Jerry Reed is probably best-known for fusing country with funk and rock, which he perfected. Anyway, this one, whilst primarily is country, you can hear and feel him taking pieces from across the musical spectrum to masterfully assemble this one. Lyrically/vocally he does his normal great delivery is such an upbeat and happy way. Hear You Took All the Ramblin' Out of Me on YouTube. My song pick 1 year ago today: Pink Floyd - Echoes My song pick 2 years ago today: Journey - Faithfully My song pick 3 years ago today: Elton John - The Bitch Is Back My...
What a coincidence, I listened yesterday to this song for the first time. I am reading Necromancer by Gordon R. Dickson and thought there was another novel by the title, looking that up on wikipedia I discovered there was a Rush song. I believe Caress Of Steel is the only Rush album I never listened to.
ReplyDelete"Caress of Steel" is not a popular album, even among Rush fans, but it is far from a bad record in my opinion, just not their best. It definitely has a certain charm about it; I listen to it every now and then.
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