Tracks
- Gasoline Alley
- It's All Over Now
- Only a Hobo
- My Way of Giving
- Country Comfort
- Cut Across Shorty
- Lady Day
- Jo's Lament
- You're My Girl (I Don't Want to Discuss It)
Gasoline Alley is a smart album. The music is rock and roll, but it's not a retrospective. This is a contemporary incarnation of rock and roll. Other rock bands since the early Beatles' albums have been heavily influenced by the blues. While this album is informed by the blues, it doesn't draw too directly from the source, unlike the blues rock and psychedelic rock bands.
This album is really strong throughout. The first two songs are really catchy and energetic. Only a Hobo is a great cover of a Dylan song and it slows the pace right down for the next two songs which are slow but really great songs. Country Comfort is one of my favorite songs. It really gets going when Ronnie Lane joins Rod Stewart on vocals. From Cut Across Shorty to the end, the album begins to rock harder and harder which is a perfect way to end an album.
I think this is one of the best albums I've ever heard. I like how it strips away all the ostentation of the past decade to return to a clean rock and roll sound. This is certainly an album worth listening to frequently. It's certainly an album that any seriously collector should have. I do believe it should be on the 1001 Albums list. It may not be the album responsible for the backlash toward psychedelic rock and prog rock, but it's certainly demonstrative of a desire to make things simpler.
There's not a bad song on this album. My favorites are: Gasoline Alley, Only a Hobo, Country Comfort, Cut Across Shorty and You're My Girl (I Don't Want to Discuss It).
★★★★★★★★★★
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