Thursday, October 3, 2019

Hard Chargin' Woman; an unheard gem

In my time on Spotify, I've gotten to explore the music world quite a bit, see more of certain musicians discographies and understand side projects of members of big rock bands.  Something that impressed me was the song mentioned in the title of this post, the final track of the 1969 debut album of Zephyr, a forgotten hard rock/blues band.  Their lead singer was a woman who sang like Ann Wilson of Heart and the guitarist in question was Tommy Bolin.  You may remember that name from when I talked about Deep Purple's "Come Taste The Band" album.  For this song, he delivers a solo along the lines of Jimmy Page's "Stairway to Heaven" or Allen Collins' "Free Bird," it's that potent, lengthy and full of virtuoso talent.  It honestly makes me wonder why this hasn't been ranked among one of the top guitar performances and I only heard about it in the last three months because of my interest in Bolin because of Glenn Hughes.  This is honestly a track hard rock fans should look up and listen to, it needs to be heard and placed among the other fantastic solos being played around that time.

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