---10/20/15
Los Angeles based Shotgun LTD are one of those groups I passed over dozens of times in my crate digging years of the 80s and 90s. That looks to have been a mistake. Even though it's not a masterpiece, it's a fine example of North American hard rock, with blues and even a slight rural underpinning. The three track sequence on the first side starting with 'Against the Wall' is simply fantastic, and there's more than a nod to the Hammond organ / electric guitar based proto-prog sound here. Hard to imagine anyone who enjoys the latter genre not being impressed with 'Number Two'. After this, the album's momentum begins to slow some, and by side 2 there are couple of country rockers to endure with 'River of Hope' and 'Feelin' Bad'. All in all though, a fine discovery after all these years. Would make for a nice reissue, perhaps with some relevant bonus tracks to kick it up a notch.
---4/29/22
+1 listen! Hilarious cover too, as the band and their
presumed pregnant girlfriends are gearing up for a
"shotgun wedding".
Not reissued as of 3/30/25.
Ownership: 1971 Prophesy (LP)
10/20/15 (review); 11/28/18 (new entry); 4/29/22 (update)
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