Joe Walsh - The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get (1973)

While 1975's 'So What' remains my all-time favourite Joe Walsh album, this second solo ride kicks off with the tune that was a big part of my early teenhood — the guitar-powered 'Rocky Mountain Way'. It was constantly on the weekend playlist of Radio RAAF Butterworth, and I remember hearing it many times on my transistor, usually way past midnight.

The album has its annoyingly quirky and self-indulgent moments, but the excellent production makes you sit through every song, if only to check out the smaller details. And if you think the the main guitar riff on 'Meadows' bears more than a passing resemblance to Deep Purple's 'Woman from Tokyo', you may be onto something!