Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley

Going back to the mid eighties. I’m driving along on the highway, and I heard this kicking’ song trilogy. I didn’t recognize or remember the singers name, but heard them say trilogy. I went to some of my favorite record shops and started searching. I thought that I had gotten lucky, and purchased an ELP record: “Trilogy”. I got it home and realized I had the wrong group. It wasn’t bad, but not what I was looking for. After searching for a few weeks, I got lucky and found it in an obscure music shop that has been gone for almost 3 decades. I lived in an apartment with 4 other guys. It was a five bedroom shack for $400 a month. Mostly beer in the fridge. We had a stereo, tv and couches in the living room. Music was always playing. Rock music was all we listened to. MTV just came out, and we would watch the tv, but listen to our music. We had hundreds of albums, and within a week, Robert Palmer’s “Sneakin’ Sally” was always near the top. It’s excellent music that takes a few listenings to, in order to get the rythms and tempos down, but after that, it is a first rate album to listen to by almost any measure. Mr Palmer also featured Little Feat playing in a few songs on that album. You can hear their influence. He even did a decent job with Feat’s Sailin’ Shoes. What I can’t understand is why his latter stuff is all that you hear. It is all pretty good music, but in my opinion, Sneakin’ Sally sets the bar for Palmer, as well as for rock music in the 70’s and early 80’s.

Would be better if you could remaster it for digital. It’s getting silly to not have all your music done that way since it’s getting too expensive to buy vinyl or anything other than digital. Not that it’s the better sound but you get better all the time.