Mighty High - Mighty High

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 1979
Time: 36:12
Size: 83,1 MB
Label: MCA-3186
Styles: Rock/Southern Rock
Art: Front

Tracks Listing:
 1. Your Song Is Mine - 3:44
 2. Storm In My Soul - 2:44
 3. Don't Take It All Away - 3:17
 4. Never Lose The Love - 2:59
 5. Backfencin - 4:17
 6. Gotta Get Up To Get Down - 4:29
 7. New York City Song - 3:26
 8. Jailbait - 3:16
 9. Man With A Plan - 3:43
10. Halloween - 4:11

Musicians:
Mike Lawler - guitars, vocals;
R.E. Hardaway - vocals, drums, percussion;
Sid Johnston - bass;
Johnny Cobb - lead & background vocals;
Jerry McCoy - guitar;
Terry McMillan - harp, percussion;
Mark Morris - percussion;
Fred Newell - banjo;
Eddy Anderson - syndrums;
Randy Drake, Charnessa Butts, Yvonne Hodges, Lisa Silver, Dianne Tidwell, Sherry Kramer - background vocals.

From the little information I've been able to gather on Mighty High, the band were from somewhere south of the Mason-Dixon and two members - guitarist Jerry McCoy and vocalist Johnny Cobb did some work with the Allman Brothers. Other than that, your guess is as good as mine, but we do know Mighty High were signed to MCA who notoriously signed good bands and left them to die on the vine, Hotel a prime case in point. I don't remember seeing this LP anywhere at the time and in the heady days of 1979 I was buying just about every major label AOR, or AOR looking album I could get my hands on, but maybe I just missed it (doubtful!) or more than likely MCA was true to style and didn't give a hoot about the boys. In any case, its high time Mighty High undergoes a good old Glory Daze once over. The opening cut 'Your Song Is Mine' surprised the hell out of me. Like most albums of this type I expected a rocker, instead Mighty High give us atmospheric ballad very reminiscent of Morningstar that features of all things, a harp backing the guitar solo. You heard me right, not something you hear everyday and 'Storm In My Soul' a moodier track keeps things interesting and again its a slow number and good too. From then on the LP is more of what I expected, Southern flavoured AOR like the first Crimson Tide, the aforementioned Morningstar and Nantucket and while Mighty High falls short of those big boys quality wise, it's not a bad record. As always, any other information on these guys would be helpful and copies are plentiful from all the usual resources. Mighty High might have got lost in the shuffle back in the day, but now there is no reason not to give 'em a listen.

Mighty High