A bit of an oddity here. Swallow gets in by connection. But the thing is, the connection was only made on their second album, which I will post later on. That album was recorded in Studio One and produced by Buddy Buie and featured members of the Atlanta Rhythm Section. Not this one. So what we have here has nothing to do with Southern Rock at all. I figured you might be curious about this record after I post their second. But I fixed this one first, when I got the rips from Luc. So there.
"Out Of The Nest" reminded me mostly of Blood, Sweat & Tears. Gravelly vocals, very good, and lots of horns. Quite a powerful Jazzy/R&B/Soulful Blues Rock release. And despite it not being Southern Rock, I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this album. Look to the future and remember this. Shuffle.
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Wow, this is a great find. Thanks for letting me see the light!
I have both on tape. Been looking for the digital version for a long time. Thanks for that!
Funny you should mention Blood, Sweat, And Tears... Al Kooper, a nortorious yankee from NYC was in Blood, Sweat, And Tears. He came to the Doraville area in 1972 to form his Sounds of The South record label where this yankee was trying to make money from off of Southerners and at the same time he was struggling with his own musical legitimacy since Kooper was dead. He recorded Mose Jones and Lynyrd Skynyrd while there as well as his own Blues Project all on Sounds Of The South label through MCA Records who eventually purchased Sounds Of The South from Kooper for one million dollars and Skynyrd along with it- unbeknownst to them and they wrote a song about it called Workin' For MCA. Anyways, is it possible this album was influenced in some way by none other than Al Kooper who was recording at Doravilled about the time this album was released? Just wondering...
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