🎵 AotW AOTW: Randle Chowning Band - HEARTS ON FIRE (SP-4715)

[LPJim]

Randle Chowning Band
HEARTS ON FIRE
A&M SP-4715

Randle Chowning, lead vocals and lead guitar, is a founding member of the Ozark Mountain Daredevils.

Other Credits:
Ken Shepherd - vocals and guitar
Larry Van Fleet - bass and vocals
Lloyd Hicks - drums and vocals

TRACKS:

Gettin' Higher
Outside the Law
The Sun's Gonna Shine
Within a Dream
Black Leather

Crazy Over You
Sweet Love
So Close to the Feeling
Stolen Away
Godspeed (Your Love)

Produced by Paul Leka
Released 1978



JB

 

[Dave]

Paul Leka, I usually associate w/ producing Harry Chapin, Laura Lieberman, Gloria Gaynor, REO Speedwagon & Jimmie Spheeris as well as producing, writing for, or just being involved w/ the following groups from the Psychedelic '60's: The Lemon Pipers, The Peppermint Rainbow, Steam, The Left Banke, & The Left Banke, Too...

Wonder, then, how much this is consequential to either Leka's typical production strategies (at Bridgeport Recording in Connecticut) or just an extension of Ozark Mountain Daredevil's legacy via its founding leader's forte...


Dave

 

[Dave]

Likewise, whatever Chowning attempted here, much of the ground by this time, had been broken by his native group...

The safe dug-out of Bridgeport Conn. hadn't done much more than helped freeze him & his band's butts off on this unsuccessful solo effort... Of which hardly if fleshed out would really attain whatever depths this environment would offer, if any treatments given over to anyone like Chapin or Lieberman were used here (not that they'd really brought out anything terribly deep, other than background noise!)...

Which his band, he'd splintered off, hadn't been better or worse of without him, given that he was hardly anything you'd consider being any kind of a mentor... Hence an Ozark Mountain Daredevils could carry on at least securing opening spots for The Eagles, regardless...


-- Dave

 

[A&Mguyfromwayback]

I only know the band from their two big hits - "If You Wanna Get To Heaven" and "Jackie Blue".....was he the singer on either of these? (Loved "Jackie Blue" as a kid - still think it's a great record).