Rick Derringer-All American Boy (1973)

Rick Derringer is a legendary American guitarist, creator of monumental works such as his debut album "All American Boy", a true classic of American rock, as well as his numerous collaborations with other artists including Edgar Winter, Johnny Winter, Steely Dan, Joe Bonamassa, and Donald Fagen, his albums with The McCoys, and his own band, Derringer. Although his musical career is primarily oriented towards hard blues rock, in his early days Derringer explored intense hard rock with The McCoys and on his first solo albums. His first solo recording came in 1973, produced by the renowned Bill Szymczyk, and featured the invaluable contributions of a lineup including Bobby Caldwell, Edgar Winter, Joe Walsh, Joe Vitale, Toots Thielemans, and Joe Lala, among many other musicians from the American rock scene. Thrilling rock songs like the opening "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo", pretentious displays of his mastery of the six strings "Joy Ride", passing through the dusty southern rock "Teenage Queen", the lively country rock "Cheap Tequila", the emotional soul "Hold", the catchy "Jump, Jump, Jump" or the galloping hard rock "Slide On Ever Slinky", gave rise to a fruitful career full of works of enormous quality that have kept him at the top of American rock for four uninterrupted decades.