Ride on Time

Ride On buy CD music This set, the band's fourth studio album, produced by Bob Marlette and Skidd Mills, features more of the same, led by the single "Monster in Me." ~ Steve Leggett 'Ride On' is Texas Hippie Coalition's third release from Carved Records. 'Ride On' embraces their southern roots while continuing to show the band's growth in sound and song writing. Texas Hippie Coalition aren't simply about making sure the outlaw rock style they worship stays alive. They want it to continue to evolve infusing it with a modern edge and energy. That evolution has been achieved with 'Ride On'.

Well, it was hot and new back in 1979 when this hard rockin’ album was first released. Ten Years Later was the group Alvin put together to replace Ten Years After, when he wanted to get back on the road after the original band split in 1974. Alvin teamed up with Tom Compton (drums) and Mick Hawksworth (bass), fine musicians who are featured on the ‘live’ and ‘studio’ recordings that comprised the original LP. The leader described the live recording featured as ‘A true and faithful recording of Ten Years Later on stage with no overdubs or effects’. You can hear Alvin and the boys get stuck into ‘Ain’t Nothin’ Shakin’, ‘Hey Joe’ and, of course, ‘Going Home’ - a blistering eight-minute version of the famed boogie shuffle. The other five tracks were recorded in Alvin’s Space Studio…

Like so many Willie Nelson albums of the 2010s, Ride Me Back Home bears a title that appears to be a vague nod to Nelson's mortality. Unlike, say, God's Problem Child or Last Man Standing, the cloud doesn't appear to hang so heavy on Ride Me Back Home, but maybe that's because the album is amiably unkempt in a way its immediate predecessors were not. Some of that is due to how Nelson and his longtime producer Buddy Cannon don't rely heavily on original material this time around.