| From Rats to Riches | ||||
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| Released | 1978 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Label | Passport (original US & Canadian release) [1] Radar Records (UK) Harvest (Germany & Australia) Mercury (Greece) | |||
| Producer | Flo & Eddie | |||
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From Rats to Riches is an album by the American rock band Good Rats, released in 1978. [2] [3] It was produced by Flo & Eddie. [4] Joe Franco's drumming was influenced primarily by Tony Williams and Carmine Appice. [5]
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [6] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [7] |
| The New Rolling Stone Record Guide | [8] |
The Poughkeepsie Journal deemed From Rats to Riches "East Coast urban rock," writing that "underlying all of these darkly decadent circumstances is a determination to get out from under the crowd." [9] The Morning News labeled it "solid, blues-based hard rock from a Zappa-like group." [10]
AllMusic called the album "strong but overlooked." [3] Chuck Eddy, in Terminated for Reasons of Taste, wrote: "Heavier than I would have guessed, and more lyrically and structurally eccentric ... than I figured from supposed bar-band hacks, with sonic influences running the gamut from doo-wop to prog to maybe even punk." [11] Noting a 1993 reissue, Newsday deemed Good Rats "the tri-state area's greatest bar band." [12] The Encyclopedia of Popular Music considered it Good Rats' best album. [7]
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