Consumer Guide Album

Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen: Live from Deep in the Heart of Texas [Paramount, 1974]
Billy C. Farlow is no more equal to "Good Rockin' Tonighte" or "Cryin' Time"--Billy C. vs. Roy Brown?? Buck Owens??--than the Airmen are equal to the Crickets or the Texas Playboys. But on this live album they come damn near to equaling themselves, and on a good night. The rockers are hot, the slow ones are soulful, and the whole thing does justice to the endearingly sloppy shuffle of a band that refuses to be pretentious about its lack of pretensions. For the young at heart and generous of spirit. B+