I made a post recently about my frustration over them not having one J.J. Cale album. Shockingly, they haven't rectified that failure. Anyway, listing to some tunes today, I pulled up Pure Prairie Leage and lo-and-behold, they now have PPL's debut album, which they didn't have the last time I looked. Bravo!
PPL's first album didn't make much splash, didn't chart at all upon it's release in March of 1972. Seven Months later (and with new plays on bass, drums and steel guitar) they were back with Bustin' Out, which made #34 on the album charts, and gave us the song Amie which is a classic rock staple.
I didn't discover PPL until '75 or so, when Amie was re-released as a single. Checking my vinyl of their debut album, it is a re-release from 1975, I presume as a result of the song Amie. Anyway, I really like the debut album and the band in general. The entire first side is stellar, with Tears, Take It Before You Go, You're Between Me and Woman. I always liked PPL, but they never really had a consistent line-up, which (I think) hurt their ability to generate any sort of inertia. They had 14 different members over 7 albums in the '70s, and nobody played on all of them. But I own 4 of those 7, and like them all. And have seen them 3 or 4 times through the years.
Anyway, THANKS Spotify for having this one!
