Crawler

I was introduced to crawler in 1999 by a friend of mine and have been trying to obtain this album on CD without luck until now via amazon.It appears that Atlantic records dropped the band because the then lead guitarist Geoff Whitehorn was relatively unknown and had replaced the legendary ex Free axeman Paul Kossoff of the Back Street Crawlers (the genesis of this band). Don't be fooled that this album lacks any less because of that. Geoff Whitehorn is a fine and respected musician and although Kossoff was a tremendous loss this album should not be overlooked. Quite soulful at times and even southern sounding.Another gold nugget refound to add to my collection and I'm sure would enhance yours too if you like your rock with some flavourable ingredients and there are lots of them. Terry Slessers vocals are pure and inducing, Lord Ted Bunting adding Saxophone, Chris Wood Flute, John Bundrick, keyboards, the list goes on. Quite simply put, an excellent band turning out really tasty music. Give it a listen you will be pleasntly surprised.

I bought the original vinyl back in the good ole days and it has been played-out. My home made transfer of vinyl-to-CD was just not of good emough quality. So I was really happy to see this 2008 CD repro on release at Amazon. I can now re-live my happy rock youth as I drive up the A1M every week. Good recording quality, and unlike some other reissues, the mixes have retained the orginal feel. Marvellous - love it!

I first saw this band when they were the warm-up act for the Doobie Brothers back in the 1970's and 80's and this album, for me, is arguably their best.