Thursday, July 31, 2025

Pickin' to beat the devil (Pure Prairie League) (LP 3566)

Pure Prairie League   Live! Takin' the Stage (Vinyl, RCA Records, 1977) **  

GenreCountry rock 

Places I remember: Slow Boat Records

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Amie (a live version from 1979, i.e. not from this album)

Gear costume: Kansas City Southern (ditto) 

They loom large in his legend (The Album Collection playlists): Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4Part 5

Active compensatory factors: I had a big pile of Pure Prairie League albums that I lost in a house move a few years ago. I never bothered to replace them, so this is the only album I now have of theirs.

They are a country rock band that started out in 1970 and by 1977 when this album came out, they'd recorded five studio albums. The early ones were the best and by 1976-1977 they were a competent bunch without much inspiration beyond some nice pedal steel work by John David Call.

Where do they all belong? Maybe I'll get those early albums (Pure Prairie League and Bustin' Out).

That's it for P. Into the Q's next.

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