Tuesday, January 1, 2019

Roadmaster. 1976 USA-Indiana


Roadmaster were a band from Indianapolis who managed to put out 4 albums from 1976 to 1980. There's no question that the group had FM radio on their mind when recording these tunes, and I can guess that they were probably quite popular within the regional club circuit. The opening two tracks here are the kind of AOR I think many of us would have been glad to hear during the era - and there's some great melodies, guitar, and synthesizer work at play here. 'AM-PM' is the obligatory blues track that doesn't inspire. 'Who Can Sing Like Fat Boy Do', despite the borderline PC police title, is a nice hard rock track and refreshingly a bit odd. And sure there are throwaways here that are really quite atrocious - and they all have titles that give the game away (Hint: They contain the words Baby and Love... yea, it was 1976 after all). But in aggregate not a bad way to spend 40 minutes, and if you're a "local AOR" collector (not I), then this one goes into the must-have column.

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