The Best Of Joe Walsh by Joe Walsh

The Best Of Joe Walsh

Joe Walsh

1978

The Best Of Joe Walsh is a Rock album by Joe Walsh, originally released in 1978. On Gatefold: 82 pressings tracked, owned by 6 collectors.

Sound DNA

  • Rock
  • Hard Rock
  • crunchy
  • swaggering
  • southern

About

This entry in the <i>20th Century Masters</i> series is essentially the same as Joe Walsh’s 10-song <i>Greatest Hits</i> album, from 1997. The collection reaffirms Walsh’s reputation as a purveyor of hard- rock grit. Despite the massive success he found as a hard-rock gunslinger, Walsh matured very quickly, both as an arranger and a songwriter. The layered productions of “County Fair,” “Meadows” and “Help Me Thru the Night” are the ultimate headphone songs — with an amazingly full sonic palate, they encompass a range of moods within the structure of a simple pop song. While Walsh was undeniably the creative force behind his great '70s records, special credit is due to longstanding producer Bill Szymczyk. The groaning, writhing bass sound on “Turn to Stone” is just one example of what he brought to Walsh’s music over the course of their lifelong partnership. Additionally, these songs are elevated by Walsh’s great taste in drummers — first Jim Fox, who put all the thrust and bounce in the James Gang songs, and then Jim Vitale, the master drummer and multi-instrumentalists who stoked Walsh’s fire on nearly all of his solo albums.

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Tracklist

  1. 1Walk Away3:34
  2. 2Funk #493:57
  3. 3Midnight Man3:30
  4. 4Mother Says (Single Version)5:54
  5. 5Turn to Stone5:17
  6. 6Here We Go5:01
  7. 7Meadows4:39
  8. 8County Fair6:46
  9. 9Help Me Thru the Night3:40
  10. 10Rocky Mountain Way5:15

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6 collectors on Gatefold own this · 82 pressings tracked on Gatefold