The Emmaus Road Band – This Could Be the Beginning

Description

This Could Be the Beginning is an album by the American rock combo The Emmaus Road Band, released on Trutone Records in 1975. The album was recorded by Rick Santucci and Joe Saint at Emmaus Sound Studio in Point Pleasant, New Jersey; with Joe Liberali producing.

Loud and fierce energy-packed Southern rock custom with mean Skynyrd kind of sound and killer guitar leads all over. So what if they’re from Jersey and the lead guitarist and songwriter’s a Nazarene reverend? – these guys sizzle! «Gospel» kicks things off and sets the pace with its raging electric guitar action. Songs like «Love» and the slow intense blues rocker «Damascus Road» also set off an impressive array of hard guitar fireworks. «Prisoner», «Messiah» and «Sinai Mountain» are all solid pieces in the Southern/classic rock tradition. But it’s the title track that takes the cake: eight minutes of heavy classic rock of epic Fraction-like proportions that begins with a wispy mysterious mood before building to an incredibly powerful climax (with some spooky reverbed apocalyptic Scripture readings in the middle). On the lighter side are the ballad «All I’ve Done», the happy-go-lucky harmonica country rocker «Time» and the brief closing afterthought «Jesus Loves Me». No fluff whatsoever. Good production for a custom, not too clean, not too primitive. Makes a great companion to Damascus Road’s I Am A Light. From Oradell, New Jersey. [Ken Scott, The Archivist, 4th Edition]

LP tracklist:

Side One
A1. “Gospel”
A2. “Time”
A3. “Prisoner”
A4. “Sinai Mountain”
A5. “Damascus Road”

Side Two
B1. “All I’ve Done”
B2. “Messiah”
B3. “Love”
B4. “This Could Be the Beginning”
B5. “Jesus Loves Me”

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