Hot Licks, Cold Steel & Truckers' Favorites | ||||
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Released | May 1972 | |||
Recorded | February–March 1972 | |||
Studio | Peninsula Sound Studios, San Carlos, California | |||
Genre | Country rock [1] | |||
Label | Paramount (original) MCA (reissue) | |||
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [2] |
Christgau's Record Guide | B+ [1] |
Hot Licks, Cold Steel & Truckers' Favorites is the second album by American rock band Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen. The album is an ode to truckers and songs about trucking, mixing classics of the genre like "Truck Drivin' Man" and "Looking at the World Through a Windshield" with the band's originals. It was released in 1972.
On AllMusic, Jana Pendragon wrote, "Again, a groundbreaking release from the wildest band in country music during the '70s.... With originals and some oldies, the Commander and his band make a big sound that is still reverberating through time.... As with Lost in the Ozone, this is top-flight music in every regard that shows another side to this great band." [2]
Robert Christgau wrote, "This rocks and wails with almost all the coherence and feeling of the rockabilly it takes off from..." [1]
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
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