Edgar Winter’s White Trash ‘Roadwork’ cd

Roadwork is an Edgar Winter, Rick Derringer, Randy St. Hobbs tour de force! 

Add in Johnny Winter singing lead on "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo" and well, bring down the house! 

To say this is a high energy live album is a definite understatement. The album is from 2 concerts: one at the Apollo theater in NY City and the other is the Whiskey A Go Go in LA. I can't tell which songs are from which venue - they sound like they could be from the same concert. Impressive consistency. In most of the tracks the bass really good. Randy Jo Hobbs right-on bass work may be critically underappreciated but not by me. The great funk bass on Cool Fool is great, but is especially prominent on Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo where his dual lead with Johnny Winter makes that song the prize of the album. Wow! Of course there isn't a bad track on the album, or a quiet ballad. Just a great mix of driving blues, jazz and funk mixed together expertly. Given it was recorded in the 70's the sound quality is pretty darn good which helps make Roadwork a stand-out album. It's also the perfect compliment to the studio White Trash album and highlights the difference between the studio work and when the restraints come off in their live performance. A skill that may be mostly lost in these days of downloads and playlists is the art of the album. When vinyl was the medium an album was a linear thing and a lot of thought and skill went into what songs would be included and in what order. If you play the album in order I think the thought and skill that make album creation an art are apparent. This is a superb album, from track 1 to track 10 non-stop.