Rock On is also one of producer Glyn Johns’ finest productions. The whole album bounces beautifully between those kinds of hard-rock highs and folksy tender lows, where there’s always a beating heart. (After his mid- to late-’60s beginning in The Small Faces, Pie singer Steve Marriott never had lucrative American hits.) “A Song for Jenny” is the most musically dynamic in the Pie catalog, lifting pedal-steel melodies and acoustic guitar wisps to shutter-rumble choruses of booming organs and soaring background vocals the tune is a rock ’n’ roll equivalent of spiritual release and a cheerful selfie to a band just finding its worldly feet (“Today it’s Albuquerque/Tomorrow it’s the world”). rock star’s longing for an American hit into longing for a California girl. It is the last Humble Pie studio album to feature guitarist/singer Peter Frampton, who left the band towards the end of the year. The pure sex and strut of “79th and Sunset” capture said influences in all of three minutes-remarkable considering the lyric, which metaphorizes a young U.K. Rock On is the fourth album by the English rock group Humble Pie, released in March 1971. Humble Pie’s fourth album (and last to feature guitarist Peter Frampton) is a winning amalgam of junky Stones riffs, Stax-styled soul, Band-esque country, and Zeppelin’s dirty-white-boy blues.
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