“The music I play is very much rooted in the late 60’s/early 70’s”, says Lee Gallagher, a fact that is crystal clear from the opening track, Highway 10, a hymn to the road that leads from LA to the Mojave desert.
The Californian speaks of the songs on this album as being a "snapshot in time" but the time is not now.
His four-piece backing musicians are The Hallelujah who are billed as "an organ-driven rock band" and the journey they embark on is a shameless nostalgia ride.
The band replicate a Cosmic Cowboy sound with songs like Lullaby For The Acid Queen and Astral Plane Blues indicating that drug-induced head trips are a necessary part of the experience.
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"Just a little lost but we're having a good time" Gallagher sings in Country Line, an ode to freedom that would have made perfect sense four decades ago but comes across as a sick joke in 2020.
The highway stars in the 21st century don't shine so brightly so what is intended as harmless fun now just seems like delusional escapism.
Lee Gallagher's website
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