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Ozark Mountain Daredevils - It's Alive (Reissue) (1973/2004)

Ozark Mountain Daredevils - It's Alive (Reissue) (1973/2004)
  • Title: It's Alive
  • Year Of Release: 1973/2004
  • Label: Universal/ New Era
  • Genre: Country Rock, Southern Rock
  • Quality: Mp3 320 / Flac (tracks)
  • Total Time: 01:00:18
  • Total Size: 219/459 Mb (scans)
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Ozark Mountain Daredevils - It's Alive (Reissue) (1973/2004)


Tracklist:

1. Walkin' Down The Road
2. Black Sky
3. You Know Like I Know
4. River To The Sun
5. Satisfied Mind
6. Fly Away Home
7. Horse Trader
8. Followin' The Way That I Feel
9. Chicken Train
10. Ooh Boys (It's Hot)
11. Homemade Wine
12. Commercial Success
13. Jackie Blue
14. Noah
15. If You Wanna Get To Heaven
16. It's All Over Now

Line-up:
Banjo – Rune Walle
Bass – Mike Granda (Supe Du Jour), Steve Canaday
Drums – Larry Lee, Steve Canaday
Fiddle – John Dillon
Guitar – John Dillon, Larry Lee, Mike Granda (Supe Du Jour), Rune Walle, Steve Canaday
Harmonica – Steve Cash
Jew's Harp – John Dillon
Keyboards – Ruell Chappell
Mandolin – Jerry Mills
Piano – John Dillon , Larry Lee

The Ozark Mountain Daredevils left A&M Records in 1978, and in lieu of the obligatory best-of compilation, which would follow a little later, the label put out the double-LP live album It's Alive. By this time the lineup was an eight-piece, with lots of guitars and a full-time keyboardist (Russell Chappell) and mandolin player (Jerry Mills). The original vinyl release left something to be desired in terms of immediacy, but the 2004 CD reissue solves that problem -- there's still less audience interaction than would be ideal on most live albums, but the band's sound is now fully in-your-face, running the gamut from soft rock to bluegrass to country blues, all of the instruments and the singing in sharp relief, and they never sacrifice energy for polish -- indeed, as the album progresses, the sound moves a bit more toward the raw and freewheeling, culminating with the encore of "It's All Over Now." One suspects there was a certain sweetening of the harmonies, especially on songs like "You Know Like I Know" and "Fly Away Home," while other songs, like "Following the Way That I Feel" and "Horse Trader," sound pretty raw and honest. The big hits are all here, with a crunchy-textured "Jackie Blue" and "If You Wanna Get to Heaven" saved for the end, but the best number here is an acoustic version of "Satisfied Mind" cut live in a men's shower backstage at an arena in Springfield, MO. The 1997-released Archive Alive concert from early in their history is rougher and more viscerally exciting, but this double-LP captures what concert work was like in the late '70s and represents a big chunk of the group's repertory, preserved from several gigs along their 1978 tour through Missouri and Kansas, close to their roots.



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  • whiskers
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Many Thanks
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  • mufty77
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Many thanks for lossless.