The 1981 Listening Post - Rossington Collins Band - This is the Way

 Rossington Collins Band - This is the Way

#508

October 1981

Rossington Collins Band

This is the Way

Genre: Southern Rock

2.75 out of 5

Highlights:

Gotta Get it Straight

It’s weird. Every song sort of sounds like something else. “Gonna Miss It When It’s Gone” calls to mind “With a Little Help from My Friends” but isn’t a cover nor is it really an interpolation. Same for “Tashauna”, which could be a ton of Skynrd songs. In fact, much of this record feels like left over ideas from a lost Skynrd record. 

Guys, there will only be one song called “Don’t Stop Me Now”, doing this is only going to call comparisons. 

I want a band called Rossington Collins Band to either be the house band for a late night talk show hosted by someone named Rossington Collins or I want it to be a big band swing ensemble. 

https://music.apple.com/us/album/this-is-the-way/1443486929

The 1980 Listening Post - Rossington Collins Band - Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere

 Rossington Collins Band - Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere

#296

July 1980

Rossington Collins Band

Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere

Genre: Southern Rock

3.25 out of 5

Highlights:

Don’t Misunderstand Me

Prime Time

From the ashes of Skynrd, here comes RCB. It’s refreshing as hell to hear this music with a vocalist like Dale Krantz behind the mic. It’s very Joplin. It’s a sound we get a lot more of in a few decades and I welcome it. Someone more knowledgable than I should let me know if this is “Southern Rock” or “Country” cuz it sounds like what we call “Country” today and I often thing that Country is the silo where rock has gone after being exiled by Indie and Pop. 

Ultimately this falls under the weight of its own vices. It’s loaded with guitar slinging solos and mid-tempo verses in search of choruses whose hooks never fully materialize. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm2g4SGEjpw