TOO STUFFED TO JUMP
Too Stuffed to Jump is the second album by American country rock group the Amazing Rhythm Aces, released in 1976 on the ABC label. Most of the material was composed by the group’s lead singer Russell Smith. The single “The End Is Not in Sight (The Cowboy Tune)” reached #12 on the country chart, and #42 on the pop chart; it won the 1976 Grammy award in the category Country Vocal Performance by a Group. In 2000, Too Stuffed to Jump was reissued by the Special Products Division of Sony Music in the USA on a two-for-one CD which also contains the group’s debut album Stacked Deck. In 2013, Dave Dimartino of Rolling Stone called the album “near classic” and said that it sounded “more contemporary than anyone might expect”. (More from Wikipedia)
When I was in Nashville on a job many years ago – which is not called Music City for nothing – I sought out a live concert at a local club and quite enjoyed the performance by a long-lived roots/country-rock band called the Amazing Rhythm Aces. The album of theirs that I picked up shortly afterward is Too Stuffed to Jump (1976).
(February 2015)
