Red Tape [Original recording reissued]

Atlanta Rhythm Section | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 11, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Malibu
• ASIN: B00000IQ72
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #326,647 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Mixed Emotions

2. Shanghied

3. Police! Police!

4. Beautiful Dreamers

5. Free Spirit

6. Oh What A Feeling

7. Another Man's Woman

8. Jukin (Also Includes San Antonio Rose)

Editorial Reviews

This CD is an out of print collectible! It is the original 1999 Malibu release. Catalog MLB 9002-2. There is a drill hole through the case and UPC.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The album that captured ARS' live sound on vinyl, May 22, 1999

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Kevin Dockrell ( [e-mail]) (Macon, Georgia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Red Tape (Audio CD)

"Red Tape," originally released in April 1976, was the ARS album that fell between the studio masterpiece "Dog Days," and "A Rock and Roll Alternative," their commercial breakthrough. It sounds like a postcard from the road, and though it is probably best-known for the "Another Man's Woman," the album contains some of ARS' best guitar-driven songs. The album contains two regional hits, "Jukin'" and the magnificent "Free Spirit," but it also features two blues stompers in "Mixed Emotions" and "Shanghaied," which are built on the twin signatures of the ARS sound: Barry Bailey's snarling lead guitar, and Ronnie Hammond's vocals. "Mixed Emotions" and "Shanghaied" are both built around Bailey's riffing, with J.R. Cobb's slide guitar; Hammond's vocal on both songs is both smooth and dangerous ... wiping away tears of sorrow and at the same time stomping his boots through the floor. The sound of the album on this reissue is fabulous, especially the bass playing of Paul Goddard, a true innovator whose rock solid rhythms combined with genuine melodic instincts made ARS' sound complete. Coming after "Dog Days," which was a dazzling collection of songs in many different styles, the leaner and harder sound of Red Tape captured the ARS live sound, which had not been much in evidence on their previous albums. An essential part of ARS' body of recorded work.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Long waited re-issued of another ARS album, May 21, 1999

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[e-mail] (North Augusta,SC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Red Tape (Audio CD)

"Red Tape" is the fifth album by the ARS and was released in the spring of 1976.While not their best album,"Red Tape" contains the vamped-out,hard rocking version of "Another Man's Woman" that the ARS close their live shows out with.All "southern" bands had a song in their songlist..Skynyrd had "Freebird" Allman Bros had "Whippin' Post" Outlaws had "Green Grass,And High Tides"Marshall Tucker had "24 hours at a Time"and....the ARS had "Another Man's Woman".....This album also has "Jukin'"...as a tip of the hat to the Outlaw music scene and a homage to Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys.(Truth be it know,Bob was the biggest music outlaw of them all..but thats another story) While I'm Here...Come record labels....there are back catalog that still hasn't been re-issused...were still waiting!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hide the fine china and crank this up, January 27, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Red Tape (Audio CD)

This remains my favorite of the many ARS albums released over the years. It really cooks. This Iowa boy echoes the sentiments of the fans from Georgia and South Carolina. Great songs, great singing, great playing. (The only sour note for me is that both the original CD I ordered and this replacement copy I'm now listening to are badly distorted 15 seconds into "Jukin." Lasts but a second or two, but it's a real drag. Maybe those guys at Malibu should've used the original master tapes.) But folks, what the band members themselves laid down is without question some of the best Southern rock ever recorded for posterity. I was in my early 20s when this album was released in '76, and I had to wait a long time for the CD of it to come out. It was worth the wait. I can tell you, if you dig the Allmans, the Outlaws, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Marshall Tucker, then do yourself a favor and order this CD. And whatever you do, play it loud. Give those expensive speakers of yours a workout.