Hot Licks, Cold Steel & Truckers Favorites

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Hot Licks, Cold Steel & Truckers' Favorites
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Studio album by
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
ReleasedMay 1972
RecordedFebruary–March 1972
StudioPeninsula Sound Studios,
San Carlos, California
Genre Country rock [1]
Label Paramount (original)
MCA (reissue)
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen chronology
Lost in the Ozone
(1971)		Hot Licks, Cold Steel & Truckers' Favorites
(1972)		 Country Casanova
(1973)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [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.

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It was also their second album to chart. Reaching a slightly worse position than their last album, peaking at No. 94 on the Billboard Top LPs. [3]

Critical reception

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]

Track listing

Side A
  1. "Truck Stop Rock" (Billy Farlow, Bill Kirchen, Bruce Barlow, George Frayne, Andy Stein)
  2. "Truck Drivin' Man" (Terry Fell)
  3. "Rip It Up" (John Marascalco, Robert Blackwell)
  4. "Cravin' Your Love" (Billy Farlow, Andy Stein)
  5. "It Should've Been Me" (Memphis Curtis)
  6. "Watch My .38" (Billy Farlow, Carl Spelbring)
Side B
  1. "Semi-Truck" (Billy Farlow, Bill Kirchen)
  2. "Kentucky Hills of Tennessee" (Billy Farlow, Michael James Richards)
  3. "Looking at the World Through a Windshield" (Jerry Chesnut, Mike Hoyer)
  4. "Diggy Liggy Lo" (J. D. "Jay" Miller)
  5. "Mama Hated Diesels" (Kevin "Blackie" Farrell)
  6. "Tutti Frutti" (Little Richard, Dorothy LaBostrie) – recorded live at Mandrake's, Berkeley, California

Personnel

Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen

Production

Charts

Chart (1972)Peak
position
US Billboard Top LPs [3] 96

References

  1. 1 2 3 Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: C". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies . Ticknor & Fields. ISBN   089919026X . Retrieved February 23, 2019– via robertchristgau.com.
  2. 1 2 Pendragon, Jana. Hot Licks, Cold Steel & Truckers Favorites at AllMusic. Retrieved June 6, 2012.
  3. 1 2 Whitburn, Joel (1996). Top LPs, 1955–1996. Record Research. p. 34. Retrieved July 10, 2025.
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