Shine On/Sour Grain/79th & Sunset/Stone Cold Fever/Rollin' Stone/A Song For Jenny/The Light/Big George/ Strange Days/Red Keck Jump
Rock On is regarded as the creative peak of British blues-rock band Humble Pie. It would be the final studio album with Peter Frampton who would shortly leave for a successful solo career. (US:118)
“Probably Humble Pie's artistic peak. A perfect blend of Marriott's soulfulness, Frampton's melodic hooks and Ridley's pub-rock sensibilities. The album is varied and expertly performed all the way through. Shine On is probably one of the band's finest songs ever, and some of the others are no slouches either. This is superlative Pie at their finest.”
“A great blues album, perfect to chill out on. Although it may lack some of the rock element prevalent on many of their other albums, I loved this hard blues style.” “Humble Pie get harder, but they still maintain one foot in the blues and an eye to the glam-rock movement that surrounded them. This is the album that defined the classic Humble Pie sound.”
“After the first two English-country tinged albums, Humble Pie went under contract to A & M and delivered two knockout albums before Frampton went solo. It may sound unbelievable, but in its time this band was competing with the likes of the Rolling Stones for rock supremacy, and really had some of what it took to do that. Marriott and Frampton had a dual vocal and guitar attack going, and the backbone was solid. They were arena big, and crunched huge.”
“Their best studio album by far. Well produced, nice material, and the band flat-out rocks. What a great set of rootsy bluesy grooves. Highly recommended for fans of tasteful early seventies hard-rock.”
“Together Frampton and Marriott create some great rollicking blues rock n' roll. Nothing too fancy or too special. It's pretty standard but for what it is it works.”
“Rock On is Humble Pie’s best record, due to the wonderful, nostalgic 70s sound that is unique to that great decade records, and the fact that it's not too bluesy and not unequal in quality as some of their other records.”
“Humble Pie veered away from their acoustic blues style to a more hard rock direction, which led to Peter Frampton leaving the band.”
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