Grandma's Roadhouse

the lp is a spot on reissue of the limited-to-500 original pressing and includes a download code, hand silk screened / stamped jacket , insert with rare photos and liners, 'more jam for your bread' bumper sticker, and riley illustration. riley is one of the first projects ever from country music legend gary stewart who tragically committed suicide in 2003. the album was recorded in 1970 and only ever available as a hand-stamped private press lp of which only 500 were made. now a massive cult figure, 'grandma's roadhouse' is an album of boozy roughness which will find favour amongst fans of creedence, csn, the band, crazy horse, long ryders. in 1970 gary invited his old friend riley watkins to bring his band (riley, jim snead, jim noveskey) down from michigan to back gary and bill on their songs, and to record some of their own. without the pressure of a studio clock ticking, the musicians were free to be loose, and experiment with arrangements, instrumentation and styles. what emerged was a sound that was not yet in nashville and nashville didn't want it. trickles of 'country-rock' were seeping out of various corners of the us, but what they had stumbled across was pure 'headneck' genius. the wild abandon of gary's stratosptenor co-mingling with riley's sandpaper vocals, spot on group harmonies, psychedelic guitars mixing with southern slide, melodic bass lines, and driving drums, formed a hazy sort of perfection.