GEORGIA SATELLITES

The Georgia Satellites - Let It Rock (Greatest Hits)

$11.98 CD

 “Let It Rock” with our twenty-track compilation of The Georgia Satellites' best - a definitive, hands-on overview of the group's gritty, raucous, Faces and Stones-inflected roots rock. 

 The Satellites' down and dirty Americana-flavored sound first broke through with their 1986 platinum, self-titled Elektra Records debut album, a #5 entry on the Billboard 200. Featuring Dan Baird's distinctive lead vocals and Rick Richards' righteous guitar, the disc's success was propelled by the #2 pop smash “Keep Your Hands To Yourself” and bolstered further by the hit “Battleship Chains,” both featured here, among other selections. 

 About their 1988 follow-up, Open All Night, Rolling Stone wrote that Baird and Richards, “still play as loud and hard as their songs permit” and that the originals “Sheila” and the title track, “pack a ferocious wallop.” The album also delivered several of the peachy covers the Georgia-based band was known for, including a memorable reinvention of the Ringo-penned gem “Don't Pass Me By” from the Beatles' White Album. 

 Also included on this essential single-disc collection are “Six Years Gone” and “Another Chance,” stand-outs from 1989's In The Land Of Salvation And Sin, a live version of Chuck Berry's “Let It Rock” and the band's rollicking medley of the John Fogerty Creedence classics “Almost Saturday Night/Rockin' All Over The World” from Rubaiyat: Elektra's 40th Anniversary box. 

Selection # 295804