Musicians:

Joey Parrish - bass
Court Pickett - drums
Randall Calvert - lead guitar
Terry Collins - keyboards
Rick Cash - lead vocals
Danny Sigfried - guitar

My God, what an album ! It is Silver Travis second album, except a 2-title maxi cd in 1982. Yes, Silver Travis is an experimented musicians' band. From Spartanburg, South Carolina, like the Marshall Tucker Band, this great sextet has its own style with an Allman Brothers touch. In 1982 already they were great : listen to their old song on their website and you can understand it ! At this time, and now, there were only few bands that played Southern Country Rock like the famous Marshall Tucker band : only two other bands from Spartanburg, the Lightnin’ West Band, with Stuart Swanlund and David Allen, and Bramble in 1983 with a LP produced by Jerry Eubanks, Doug Gray and George McCorkle. Then a band from Missouri, the Macks Creek Band and its wonderful LP ‘Same’, and the three groups from Illinois The Dave Chastain Band, The Roadside Band and Appaloosa.

Let’s talk about Siver Travis second album, twelve songs : Take The High Road, a similar road on the Marshall Tucker Band album ‘Long Hard Ride’ with Jerry Eubanks and Paul Riddle on the instrumental El Segundo, where Silver Travis meets The Allman and Santana, and with the other musicians Rusty Milner and Tim Lawter who also participate at the production work. Great sensations from the beginning with ‘You Done Me Wrong’. We also can note Rick cash vocals on ‘Bad Case Of Loving You’. There a song in the Allman way ‘Wishing Well’, two in the old Marshall Tucker Band way ‘Time For A Change’ and ‘Southern Poet’, and ‘Honky Tonk Shuffle’ and ‘Rooster’ two bluesy boogie that close this album.

Just one thing : there are less guitar parts than on the last album, ‘One Monkey Don’t Spoil The Show’. There are more musical arrangements, a better production quality for these twelve songs, that is rare enough nowadays. We leave the coach thirsty and dusty. Let’s get soon a bar…

Jacques Dersigny