Pure Prairie League-Bustin' Out (1972)




 Artist: Pure Prairie League

Title: Bustin' Out

Label: RCA Victor

Format: LP

Cat: LSP 4769

Year of Release: 1972

Country and Year of Edition: US 1972 Orange label, first pressing, Unique to the earliest pressings is a statement on the bottom of the back cover, above the Dynaflex info (see images): "RCA STEREO RECORDS may be played on any modern phonograph with a lightweight tome arm. You will hear excellent sound reproduction on a mono player and full stereo sound on a stereo player"

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Great shape Dynaflex with note about "may be played on any modern phonograph..."

Sell Date: 9/1/22

Sell Price: $5.99

Discogs Last Sold:8/26/22 NM/VG+ $4.22

Low: $1.00 G/VG 4/6/22

Median: $5.00

Average: $8.27

High: $60.00 6/2/21 M/M sealed

Current low price: $2.25

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 26

Have/Want: 2981/181

Where Sold:  Roseville, CA

Time it took to sell: 1 year

Where and When ebay prog lot

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A-

Sad To See It Go: No

In childhood I flipped over this album in the library pop bin, with the mustachioed Saturday Evening Post reoccurring character.  The early 80's had "Let Me Love You Tonight" and "I'm Almost Ready" as Top 40 soft rock hits, and I never even associated this album with it's even bigger hit that made their name a decade before, "Amie."  I got this album in a $50 lot of mostly prog records I bought a year or two ago on Ebay and never got around to playing this until today.

So I was a bit curious to hear what Bustin' Out was like start to finish.  I think there was a southern rock barroom conversation of Marshall Tucker Band fans that were extolling the virtues of 70's Pure Prairie League.  This album is definitely quality along the lines of early Poco with some great rock moments (the fade out and back in of side one closer "Early Morning Riser" comes to mind) and songs that could easily go side by side with Gram Parsons.  Gorgeous melodies such as "Boulder Skies" abound.  

So having heard "Amie" only in the context of AM radio all these years, I never knew that album wise it's the second half of two similar songs.  Side two opens with "Falling In And Out Of Love" and it wraps with the "Amie" chorus in more of an acoustic ballad form.    Is it healthy or dysfunctional?  Only "Angel" knows.  In "Angel #9" she's got him so he can't feel anything at all, with some unexpectedly tough drumming.

Another thing I never realized was that Mick Ronson of Ziggy Bowie, Mott The Hoople member & Dylan Rolling Thunder crackerjack touring guitarist fame arranged the strings of this album.  Nobody, and I mean nobody puts Bowie's Ziggy Stardust side by side with Bustin' Out.  Also, vocalist Craig Fuller left the band after this.  He emerged later in the 70's in the band American Flyer for an album and joined Little Feat in the mid-80's for a few albums.

You learn something new every day. 

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