Country Life: SHM-CD Mulatu Astatke One late-night jam session on

One late-night jam session on the road unlocked immediate chemistry

Off The Hook

“It was more a case of getting the songs as tightly written and arranged as possible first so we could get them down quickly in the studio

On her third album Great Doubt

Heartache Tonight – Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (1980)

Country Life: SHM-CD Mulatu Astatke One late-night jam session onThe first Roxy album to break the US Top 40 demonstrated that, four records in, the band were every bit as hungry, audacious and pioneering as on their debut two years earlier. Opening with the urgent, propulsive The Thrill Of It All, Country Life effortlessly embraces avant garde song structures, touching ballads, English nostalgia, visceral hard rock, European influences and even medieval Christian references without skipping a beat. The resulting