The Car Over the Lake Album

Ozark Mountain Daredevils | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 11, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 1975
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: New Era (Burnside)
• ASIN: B000068QYZ
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #134,280 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

This long awaited reissue is now available on CD in a top quality package with the original album cover art, photos, and lyrics.  The music has been digitally remastered from the Original Master Tapes for the best sound quality.  The 14 tracks include the songs from the The Little Red Record.

Customer Reviews

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Sound That Fits, August 22, 2002

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Jerry Fry (Freeman, MO USA) - See all my reviews
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You don't need to be from the Ozarks to appreciate this album but it doesn't hurt. I rate this as The Daredevils best album. Although there are many good songs on their other albums, I'd have to say there are more on this one. "Mr. Powell" is one of the best. It's in reference to the journey through the Grand Canyon he and his party took , "Just about a hundred years or so ago". Some of these songs will always sound good no matter how much time passes. Some will call this Country or Country Rock but I would also define it as Folk music. "From Time to Time" is a beautiful song that you can feel. All the songs are good, there aren't many albums like that, and it's just my opinion, but if you've heard anything else by the "Ozarks" that you liked you should hear this.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Car Over The Lake Album Cover Album, March 18, 2005

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Mark Champion "autumnfair" (San Antonio, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Car Over the Lake Album (Audio CD)

They did it again with their third release, and again with David Anderle at the producer's console. There are some problems - - the two tracks which originally were the album-side openers ("Keep On Churnin'" and "Thin Ice") are perfunctory exercises in both performance and intention. And it seems they front-loaded the album a bit, as tracks two through six play like a best-of sequence: five absolutely astonishing songs, parading gloriously one after another. Randall Chowning's "Leatherwood" is peerless, a beautiful countrified paeon to the easy life, with a gorgeous harmonized chorus and an instrumental break straight out of the woods. And when Chowning teams up with Steve Cash for the harp-and-yodelling, oboe-flavored fourstep "Gypsy Forest", hey - - go on and levitate. I do, every time I hear it. Cash's and Larry Lee's airy "If I Only Knew" should have been as big a hit as was "Jackie Blue". The CAR OVER THE LAKE ALBUM flags a bit as it goes on, though. The last half isn't quite as strong as the first but again, it's relative as all the songs are at least very, very good. The original LP closed with Chowning's stately, arresting elegy "Whippoorwill", a fitting closer if ever there were one. The three bonus tracks, originally a flexi released with the LP, aren't exactly essential and mitigate the closure. They hold up well enough on their own though, so it's nice to have them on CD. The admonishing text printed on the original flexi was somewhat apologetic regarding the quality of the songs and their putatively irreverent humor, but with people like Oscar Brand running around releasing humorously peurile albums since the late '40s, why bother apologizing? These guys were on a roll.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Car Over The Lake Album, February 4, 2003

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This review is from: The Car Over the Lake Album (Audio CD)

I first purchased this album on cassette back in '75. I have a vast album/cd/cassette collection but I would have to say this is one of the best albums ever. If you want variety, this album has it. I definitely am not a big country fan but you can't help to like this album and particularly this group. Probably one of the most underrated groups of all time. For the gentleman wanting to know who sings: If I Only Knew, From Time To Time, Spaceship Onion, Jackie Blue, and Mr. Powell. His name is Larry Lee. Whippoorwill is my favorite song on this album. Great music particularly with the music/groups we have today. You can almost feel their enthusiasm towards their music in their songs. Definitely a great choice.