Track Listing

1. We're On The Road Again
2. Wings Over The Sea
3. Keep Your Hands On The Wheel
4. Colourful Lady
5. Road Rocket
6. Backtown Sinner
7. Jimmy Lad
8. Dancin' At The Rainbow's End
9. Another Night
10. Way Beyond The Rain

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #49676 in Music
• Released on: 2007-07-30
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .19 pounds

Customer Reviews

Long Long overdue!
It is almost unbelievable to think that this has been around since 1979, and never been released in the UK or on CD until now. When you hear this album, you would say a criminal act has been performed, because this album is a true gem.

For starters it has three singles on it, Keep your hands on the wheel, We're on the road again (some Roy fans might have this on picture disc) and the fantastic Dancing at the Rainbows end. This track, if released 5 years earlier would have been a number 1.

Amongst the other tracks you have to hear Jimmy Lad, a very catchy scottish folk song (is that really Roy singing?) and there are some great rock tracks like Road rocket, and the usual Roy diversity magic is worked on such tracks like Another Night, Backtown sinner, and the nice little ditty called Wings over the sea.

When you thought it can't get any better than this, the last track is the awesome Way Beyond the rain. This is just a fantastic piece of songwriting, with such dramatic haunting music.

If you loved Roy's other solo albums Boulders and Mustard, you must have this album.

I'm into Roy again...
I just recently got this on CD. I had not listened to my vinyl LP in years. Memories came flooding back and I forgot how really good it was. I remember having to buy it through the mail and that it sounded better production-wise than BOULDERS and MUSTARD. Roy was often his own worst enemy commercially, but this is an excellent album. Some of his efforts are quite quirky and experimental and the multitude of overdubs didn't always help the overall sound quality.

The MUSTARD CD got me back into a Roy Wood mood and this is certainly one of Roy's better efforts. BOULDERS made a huge impact on me and MUSTARD sounds SO much better on the remastered CD. If his record company had released MAIN STREET when it was finished Roy would have had a streak of four excellent albums in a row. Definitely recommended if you are a fan of Roy, ELO, and/or The Move.

Rock'n Roy
What IS IT with Roy Wood anyway?! One of the world's best pop/rock/jazz composers and performers, at least from 1966-1979, he wrote for, sang and played with groups like The Move, Electric Light Orchestra (on their first and best album), Wizzard, and also as a solo-artist. But as soon as he started to get exhausted after a nearly superhumaniac effort in music for so many years, his songs stopped making it into the charts, his popularity vanished fast - and he nearly disappeared into obscurity. The thing is that Roy Wood never got the full credit he deserved, even in his popular era.
This in not the right place to discuss the subject in details. I just want to say that Roy Wood has until now made at least 8 albums that still today deserve 4-5 stars: The Move, Shazam, Message from the Country, Boulders, ELO I, Wizzard's Brew, On the Road Again and Main Street.
In my opinion, On the Road again is the happiest album Roy ever made (at least so far)! He must have been enjoying great happiness in his private life at the time. From beginning to end the album's music runs freely and smoothly with joy, vitality and humor (like played by a prison band who has managed to escape - out on the road to freedom.) The instruments are many and the arrangements not simple, but the outcome is a very simple and pure ode to joy, freedom and the love of life - and love. Even "Jimmy Lad" is strikingly beautiful!
I'll sure take On the road again with me, when at last I start my trip to Kathmandu! A rockin' joy!