Moxy - Ridin' High

Tracks

Side 1

		Track Name	Length
	1	Nothin' Comes Easy	04:24
	2	Rock Baby	04:48
	3	Sweet Reputation (Symphony For Margaret)	03:56
	4	I'll Set You On Fire	03:20

Side 2

		Track Name	Length
	1	Ridin' High	04:05
	2	Young Legs	03:49
	3	Another Time Another Place	04:41
	4	Are You Ready	03:54
	5	Reprise (Nothin' Comes Easy)	01:00

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With Ridin' High, we had a little more control and we wanted to get back to a harder sound. And we went to a different studio because we had such a hard time with the second one. And they knew that so they let our opinions run a little wilder so we had a more lively room to record the drums in and the album is more high energy."
-Bill Wade

"Basically Ridin' High had stiffed; it was too hard for Canada. I remember going in doing radio interviews and 'Ridin' High' was the single and they would put it on and all the needles would just go tilt over right into the red and the station engineer would be freaking out. And I'm going, 'we're not going to get any airplay with this.' I just knew it. And you know, we were a concert act. And we died with that album."
-Earl Johnson

Ridin' High is the third album by the Canadian hard rock band Moxy, released in 1977. The record got good reviews and got the band nominated for a Juno Award (Canada's Grammy) in 1977 for Most Promising Group of the Year. The album produced two Texas hit songs "Are You Ready", and "Ridin' High", as for Canada the album was considered too hard/heavy for Canadian radio at the time and consequently only the slowest paced song "Another Time Another Place" received any airplay in the band's home country. The album still sold well in Canada and especially in Southern USA because of strong live appearances that included shows with AC/DC and Trooper.

In the words of Earl Johnson "I remember going in doing radio interviews and Ridin' High was the single and they would put it on and all the needles would just go tilt over right into the red and the station engineer would be freaking out. And I'm going, we're not going to get any airplay with this. I just knew it. And you know, we were a concert act".

Buzz Shearman: vocals
Earl Johnson: guitar, slide guitar
Buddy Caine: guitar, electric guitar
Bill Wade: drums
Terry Juric: bass

Produced by Jack Douglas and Edward Leonetti
Engineered by Mike Jones
Recorded at Sounds Interchange, Toronto, Ontario, March 1977
Mixed at The Record Plant, NYC, USA, March 1977

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