Bobby Lance - Rollin' Man 1972

Recorded in New York in 1972, Bobby Lance's Rollin' Man was cut from the same cloth as the previous year's First Peace, but it's a straighter affair, hitting the rock rhythms a bit harder, keeping the grooves linear and ever so slightly ratcheting up that smidgeon of showbiz that lurked on First Peace's edges. Naturally, the latter surfaces on the ballads (and also the hippie-dippie "Tribute to a Woman"), but it's usually drowned out by the effective Allman Brothers nod "John the Rollin' Man" and an overdose of driving boogie. Lance handles these curves admirably and it's a nice bit of early-'70s Southern rock, although it slightly pales next to the seamless Southern stew of First Peace. AMG.

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