Terry Reid

Another lost gem finally unearthed and reissued. Anyone who claims that the Black Crowes' Chris Robinson rips off Faces-era Rod Stewart has never heard Terry Reid croon. Reid was asked to front Led Zeppelin before Robert Plant, but turned it down to craft loose, countrified blues rock as heard on this epic 1973 album.

In 1968, nineteen-year-old British singer Terry Reid walked away from an offer to be the
voice of Led Zeppelin (he suggested Robert Plant instead). A precociously soulful howler,
Reid opened U.S. gigs for Cream and the Rolling Stones, made two fab power-blues LPs --
Bang, Bang You're Terry Reid ('68) and Terry Reid ('69) -- then vanished as fast as he had
soared. Issued by Atlantic in 1973, River might have been Reid's big comeback if... More >