- ReleaseProduct
- Yes It Is (2024 Remaster)
- Artist
- Rockin' Horse
- Label
- Think Like A Key Music
- Catalogue Number
- TLAK1155
- Release Date
- April 26, 2024
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CD
$13.00The "Why Wasn't This Huge in '71?" CD Edition
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- Housed in a sturdy 350g 6-panel cardboard sleeve (because great music deserves great packaging)
- Original cover art restored to its glory (finally, as the artists (or the art dept.) intended!)
- Three bonus tracks (because more Rockin' Horse is always a good thing)
- Remastered by the sonic wizard Prof. Stoned (no relation to Keith Richards)
Two of Liverpool's finest — one an unsung genius, the other a Merseybeat hitmaker — made a power-pop masterpiece before the term even existed.
In 1971, Jimmy Campbell (the maverick behind The 23rd Turnoff) and Billy Kinsley (The Merseys, Liverpool Express) joined forces as Rockin' Horse and cut Yes It Is — an album drenched in Beatles-echo harmonies and raw Scouse energy. It was power-pop before anyone had a name for it: hook after hook, delivered with a grit that kept it from ever sounding polished to a fault. Potent enough that Popdiggers' Garwood Pickjon ranks it in his all-time Top 20. Yet the album vanished for decades, known only to crate-diggers and Liverpool obsessives.
Some records just refuse to stay lost.
RIYL
The Beatles, Badfinger, Big Star, Cheap Trick, Allah-Lahs, Buffalo Killers
- 1 Biggest Gossip In Town Rockin' Horse 2:50
- 2 Oh Carol, I'm So Sad Rockin' Horse 2:52
- 3 You're Spending All My Money Rockin' Horse 3:56
- 4 Baby Walk Out With Your Darlin' Man Rockin' Horse 4:14
- 5 Don't You Think I Ever Cry Rockin' Horse 3:57
- 6 Yes It Is Rockin' Horse 2:17
- 7 Stayed Out Late Last Night Rockin' Horse 2:34
- 8 Delicate Situation Rockin' Horse 2:32
- 9 Son, Son Rockin' Horse 3:25
- 10 Golden Opportunity Rockin' Horse 2:57
- 11 I'm Trying To Forget You Rockin' Horse 3:35
- 12 Julian The Hooligan Rockin' Horse 4:29
- 13 You Say Rockin' Horse 3:40
- 14 I Ain't Got Time Atlantis 3:02
- 15 Teddy Boyd's Rock 'N' Roll Show Atlantis 2:12