Keep on Rollin

REO Speedwagon | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 19, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Music Mill
• ASIN: B000062R8S
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #418,138 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Roll With The Changes

2. Take It On The Run

3. Keep On Loving You

4. Keep The Fire Burning

5. Music Man

6. Time For Me To Fly

7. Can’t Fight This Feeling

8. Like You Do

9. Little Queenie

10. Ridin’ The Storm Out (Live)

Editorial Reviews

About the Artist

When the name REO Speedwagon is mentioned, it tends to conjure many different images. One might first recall the power-pop ballads “Keep on Loving You,” “Can’t Fight This Feeling,” or “Time For Me to Fly.” Others may find themselves remembering rockin’ anthems such as “Roll With the Changes,” “Ridin’ the Storm Out,” or “Don’t Let Him Go.” Visually one may remember long, wavy hair and a Fender Stratocaster as easily as blue jeans, tux tails and a grand piano. Memories of a raucous live concert can be as pervasive as the thoughts of a warm, starry night a couple spent listening to the radio. The truth is REO Speedwagon is all of these things. The party band-turned-rock-and-roll-juggernaut from Champaign, IL has been busy for over 30 years.

The original members all lived near or attended the University of Illinois. REO Speedwagon was formed to play frat parties, sorority parties, dances, keggers, heck, any kinda party! After several years of playing the local bar scene and a lineup change or two, the band created a reputation as a great live show. Its first six albums met with spotty national success. But in 1977 that changed with the release of the highly successful Live - You Get What You Play For. Although the project wasn’t as successful as the previous year’s Frampton Comes Alive or Bob Seger’s Live Bullet, the American public’s newfound acceptance of live recordings benefited Champaign’s finest nonetheless. The album eventually became a million-seller and identified the REO sound.

The next project, You Can Tune a Piano, But You Can’t Tuna Fish, was an exercise in capturing the live REO sound in the studio. They most certainly did! And thus, the Tuna lbum became a template for the band’s upcoming successes. Success is really an understated way to describe the overwhelming power that circulated around 1980’s mega-platinum Hi-Infidelity phenomenon. The project stayed perched at #1 on Billboard’s album chart for months while it spawned a Texas handful of pop and rock radio hits which fueled the REO touring machine from that point on.

REO’s “hey day” lasted well into the mid-1980’s as long as radio embraced the group’s efforts. As the 80’s wound down, so too did radio’s fascination with the straight-ahead rock and roll bands. The radio industry became increasingly fragmented and REO Speedwagon found its songs being played on Classic Rock stations. Although there are thousands of these types of stations in the U.S., they carry only a fraction of the overall market share of the pop and rock powerhouse stations that supported REO throughout the earlier part of the decade.

But like many of its contemporaries, REO Speedwagon continues to be a very successful band by continuing to tour and release album projects in deference to radio. This is possible in large part due to the extremely loyal support of its massive fan base. Music Mill Entertainment is proud to bring you this package of great REO Speedwagon songs we call Keep On Rollin’.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good buy, May 26, 2005

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mtnlaurell (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Keep on Rollin (Audio CD)

Though not as comprehensive as the Essential CD, this compilation is much more satisfying. I'm sometimes disappointed by live versions of songs, but the live version of Ridin' the Storm Out is one they can be proud of. My only regret is they didn't include the original version of 157 Riverside Avenue.