Road

It doesn’t get much worse than this, my friends. Your prototypical early ‘70s power trio, Road, a B-list supergroup of sorts, featured former and future members of the Jimi Hendrix Experience (bassist Noel Redding), Rare Earth (guitarist Rod Richards) and Stray Dog (drummer Leslie Sampson), and released its lone self-titled debut album in 1972 on Natural Resources Records. The end result is a half-baked, spaced-out platter of self-indulgent stoner rock. Sure, the vocals are awful, the songs go nowhere and the contributing participants are comatose, but at least the lyrical content is good for a laugh or two. Take “I’m Going Down to the Country,” for example, a song that features exactly one verse: “Goin’ down to the country/where the air is so nice/lookin’ in a haystack/I see mice.” I suppose I could provide you with some of the poetic genius that also appears in both “Mushroom Man” and “Man Dressed in Red,” but I’ll let the titles speak for themselves. One final note: the title track features a bass solo. You have been warned.