Powerglide by New Riders of the Purple Sage (Vinyl record album review)

Record basics

• Album name: Powerglide
• Group name: New Riders of the Purple Sage
• Year: 1972
• Number of discs: one
• Label: Columbia Records
• Collection: Brenner / Gessner
• Buy it on Amazon: $6.99

My review

Level of familiarity before listening

I reviewed Home, Home on the Road by New Riders of the Purple Sage a week ago and loved it. I’ve never heard “Powerglide” before.

What I expected

More psychedelic country.

What it was actually like

The musical style on “Powerglide” was pretty consistent with “Home, Home on the Road,” which was excellent. I didn’t care much for California Day, but thought Rainbow and Sweet Lovin’ One were both very good.

I remarked before that I thought the NRPS version of Ricky Nelson’s Hello Mary Lou was outstanding, and it was outstanding on this record also. I felt the exact same way about their cover of Willie and the Hand Jive – Eric Clapton should have just copied what NRPS did.

Grade

5/5: love it