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The 10 best songs from 1969s Yer Album, 1970s Rides Again and 1971s Thirds. The James Gang, formed in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1966, may be best known as the band that was first to feature guitarist/vocalist Joe Walsh before his rise to stardom as a solo musician and a member of the Eagles.
The James Gang performed with a stylistic versatility, hard-rocking edge and ultra-sharp musicianship. Their power-trio template has never sounded fiercer than on this Analogue Productions 200-gram reissue. Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio, pressed at Quality Record Pressings makers of the worlds finest-sounding LPs and packaged in a tip-on heavyweight jacket from Stoughton Printing, this sterling reissue looks as great as it sounds.
Youll hear James Gang favorites including the FM radio staple Funk #49, kick-started by the outspoken declaration I sleep all day, out all night/I know where youre goin’ the sexual thrust of the head-bobbing Woman, and proto-metal slash of the multi-part The Bomber. The rest of the track list is just as steeped in psychedelic-and-blues-leaning discourse. Midnight Man, Stop, Yadig? Take A Look Around, Funk #48, Walk Away and the Jack Nitzsche-orchestrated Ashes the Rain and I are rounded out by Walshs Echoplex-equipped slide guitar, and his trio-mates, band founder Jim Fox on drums, piano and vocals, and bassist Tom Kriss, later replaced by Dale Peters.
The James Gang burning on stage with the audience getting higher and higher. Listen this is American music strong, inventive and clean.
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