Live from the Atlantic Studios

Imaginative great music of the day thats timeless. Check out Carrs solo albums too beautiful cruisy music. Wonderful musicians that throw in a few styles of music

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The mid-70's Muscle Shoals Alabama music scene was popping with life. Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Allman Brothers, Aretha Franklin and Bob Dylan all used the Muscle Shoals musicians and studios during this period. At Pete Carr's request, Lenny Leblanc transplanted his guitar skills to this great 70's music mecca. They only recorded one album together on Big Tree Records (WEA subsidiary) called `Midnight Light' in 1975. It yielded a huge Top Ten Billboard hit: `Falling' that is seldom played today since the cd it was from was largely out of print, expensive, and hard to find.Also in 1975, WEA (Warner/Elektra/Asylum) released a special promotional full length album of Leblanc & Carr live at Atlantic Recording Studios. The album was only issued to radio stations, so most all of America has never heard this recording! (except for those lucky people who might have heard it played at the time on mostly college radio stations.) This superb album has now been resurrected by Wounded Birds Label, a label whose sole purpose is to reissue hard to find and eclectic 70's music. Beautifully sang and recorded, the music is that of understatement and heart-rendering southern-influenced love songs, ballads and mid-tempo music, perhaps reminiscent a bit of the Little River Band or England Dan/John Ford Coley flavour.Lenny had one solo album released up to this point, self-titled, and some of those songs are included on this cd ("Hound Dog Man" & "Lady Singer.") The Live cd also includes a version of the minor hit: `Something About You.' Leblanc and Carr toured only for a year before Pete Carr quit touring to go back to producing. What is ironic is that Pete Carr had already left the band, so he isn't even on this cd that bears his name.In 1980, Leblanc became a born again Christian, after the band had stopped touring, and has a very successful and acclaimed Christian music career since.The band members on this Live CD are:Lenny LeBlanc: Lead Vocals, Lead & Rhythm GuitarsRick Powell: DrumsSteve Nathan: KeyboardsLeon Sherrill: Lead GuitarThom Flora: Piano, Percussion, Background VocalsGary Baker: Bass, Background VocalsLabel: Wounded Bird Records, USA(Original: Atlantic Recording Corp. USA- Promotional release)CATALOG #: WOU1003Release Date: March 17, 2009TRACKS:1. Something About You2. Lady Singer3. Falling4. Rainy5. Looking For A Love6. Hound Dog Man7. Stay Awake8. Midnight Light9. I Believe That Mereviewed by Jeff Feezle of Macafeez