Running Down the Road

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艺人: Arlo Guthrie
语种: 英语
厂牌: Rising Son / Koch International
发行时间: 1969年02月14日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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by Richie Unterberger

Although this album's &Coming in to Los Angeles& crossed Guthrie over and into the rock underground, especially via its performance at Woodstock, most of his third record is actually far more laid-back country-rock. Very much a production of its time, in a slightly negative sense, Running Down the Road features Guthrie employing the cream of L.A.'s top country-rock players as session men: Ry Cooder, James Burton, Clarence White, Jim Gordon, Gene Parsons, Jerry Scheff, and Chris Etheridge. The tone is good-natured and easygoing -- too good-natured and easygoing sometimes, in fact, as on the unexciting cover of &Stealin'.& Guthrie acknowledges his folk roots with covers of tunes by his father Woody Guthrie (&Oklahoma Hills&), Pete Seeger (&Living in the Country&), and Mississippi John Hurt. These are surrounded by originals that follow the Dylan &back to basics& mold of the late '60s, both in musical and lyrical concerns (&My Front Pages& might even be taken as a gentle Dylan satire). As such, much of the record is inoffensive but inconsequential, although the drug smuggling ode &Coming into Los Angeles& adds a touch of much-needed urgency. The title track is entirely uncharacteristic of the album, with its harsh blasts of distorted psychedelic guitar and tough, walking-blues stance -- for these reasons, it's a standout.

Running Down the Road

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