Champagne Jam

Atlanta Rhythm Section

1978: PolyGram/Polydor 829 662-2

1. Large Time
2. I’m Not Gonna Let It Bother Me Tonight
3. Normal Love
4. Champagne Jam
5. Imaginary Lover
6. The Ballad of Lois Malone
7. The Great Escape
8. Evileen

For years a number of tracks I used to hear on the radio while growing up in Walla Walla have found their way back into my head like patient ghosts, knowing that now thanks to the Internet I could both find and acquire copies of most of them. One of these was “Imaginary Lover,” and another was “I’m Not Gonna Let It Bother Me Tonight.” What I didn’t know was that they were both by the same group, as are probably a couple of others I’ve always distantly known and liked; I had the same reaction to getting the Gerry Rafferty “best of” CD Clowns to the Left, Jokers to the Right a couple of years ago. “HE did THAT song??”

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