Ridin' High (Moxy album)
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Ridin' High
Studio album by Moxy
Released 1977
Recorded March 1977 Toronto
Genre Hard rock, Heavy metal
Length 31:83
Label Mercury Records
Producer Jack Douglas and Edward Leonetti
Moxy chronology
Moxy II
1976 Ridin' High
1977 Under the Lights
1978
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 2.5/5 stars
Ridin' High is the third album by the Canadian hard rock band Moxy, released in 1977. The record got good reviews and got the band nominated for a Juno Award (Canada's Grammy) in 1977 for Most Promising Group of the Year. The album produced two Texas hit songs "Are You Ready", and "Ridin' High", as for Canada the album was considered too hard/heavy for Canadian radio at the time and consequently only the slowest paced song "Another Time Another Place" received any airplay in the band's home country. The album still sold well in Canada and especially in Southern USA because of strong live appearances that included shows with AC/DC and Trooper.
In the words of Earl Johnson "I remember going in doing radio interviews and Ridin High was the single and they would put it on and all the needles would just go tilt over right into the red and the station engineer would be freaking out. And I'm going, we're not going to get any airplay with this. I just knew it. And you know, we were a concert act",
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