At the Rock House
- 艺人
- Roy Orbison
- 语种
- 英语
- 厂牌
- Sun
- 发行时间
- 1961年02月14日
- 专辑类别
- 录音室专辑
专辑介绍
by Bruce Eder
Although it was technically Roy Orbison's first album, At the Rock House wasn't really an LP effort on his part so much as a cash-in effort by Sun Records in the wake of Orbison's later success on Monument Records with &Uptown,& &Only the Lonely,& etc. And understandably, the sound is very retro for 1960-1961, comprised as the record is primarily of the rock & roll and hardcore rockabilly numbers that he cut for Sun in 1956 (with his original group the Teen Kings) and 1957, including the Johnny Cash-authored &You're My Baby,& the Orbison/Harold Jenkins collaboration &Rock House,& and Sam Phillips' &Mean Little Mama& and &Problem Child.& Not everything is quite as briskly paced as those two numbers, but even the ballads, such as &Sweet and Easy to Love& and &Devil Doll,& and the melodic &This Kind of Love& and &It's Too Late,& have an edge to them -- they stand midway between the rock & roll that was happening in 1956 and the more lush and dramatic sound that Orbison would perfect at Monument Records from 1959 onward. All of the material is fascinating as a sort of alternate-universe version of where Orbison might've headed musically, and most of it is downright bracing and exciting, though it's easy to see why it never succeeded at the time -- numbers like &You're Gonna Cry& and &Problem Child& were a little too intense and ambitious as rock & roll, with too many changes and involved lyrics, to hold that audience en masse. It was some of the best and most intense rock & roll you could buy in 1961 this side of Elvis Presley, however, and heard today the album is a fascinating curio from what's usually thought of as a fallow period in rock & roll history.
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