Thursday, 20 December 2018

Leathercoated MInds - A Trip Down The Sunset Strip


Rating: 3/5

Review:
Probably for JJ Cale fans only

This is JJ Cale in a band before his solo career began with Naturally. A Trip Down The Sunset Strip it’s a pretty undistinguished mix of covers and some instrumentals written for the band. There’s nothing actually wrong with any of it and bits of it are quite good - Non-Stop sounds rather like a sort of precursor to The Allman Brothers’ Jessica, for example – but there’s nothing worth getting very excited about either.

I wouldn’t have bothered with this if it didn’t feature JJ, and frankly, I wouldn’t have missed much. If you’re a JJ Cale fan you’ll probably want it and do what I did: you’ll probably listen to it once and most likely not bother again but be obscurely pleased that it’s in your collection. That’s sometimes what being a fan is about and that’s fine; just don’t expect a long-lost classic. Naturally or Okie, this ain’t.

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