For those not in the know, Prof. Stoned’s 2025 remaster of On The Frontier uncovers the richness buried in this 1973 cult classic.

While Clapton, Beck, and Page hoarded headlines, Jim McCarty (Yardbirds) quietly dropped a prog-country gem with Raw Material’s Dave Green, and featuring pedal-steel wizard BJ Cole, and Renaissance’s John Tout.

On The Frontier isn’t just a solo record — it’s a detour into lush arrangements, melodic curveballs, and unfiltered brilliance that was always too smart for the mainstream.

400 copies only. You blink, it’s gone.

1. The Neon Life [4:05]
2. Ships And Sails [3:46]
3. Living Blind [4:47]
4. On The Frontier [4:24]
5. The Boogie [4:19]
6. Midnight Train [3:41]
7. Head Under Water [1:09]
8. Sepia Sister [5:25]
9. Old Time Religion [3:51]
10. Mean Customer [7:37]
11. Storms As Sorrows (Radio Session) [4:39]
12. The Neon Life (Radio Session) [6:00]

On an album where we get the melodies of a band that combined elements of country, psychedelia, prog, and jazz rock, Shoot open their remastered album on the melodic prog-pop-rocker The Neon Life and the atmospheric, mid-tempo smoothness of Ships And Sails and then comes the keyboard-driven beauty Living Blind, the fee-flowing pop-rocker title track On The Frontier, the rockin’ blues vibe of The Boogie, with the Americana-country, fiddle-backed Midnight Train up thereafter.

Along next is the short, yet dutifully Asia-imbibed interlude Head Under Water and the smoothly sculpted Sepia Sister and they are in turn backed seamlessly by the ornately sumptuous Old Time Religion and the country-grooved Mean Customer, the set rounding out on the two radio session bonus tracks of both Storms As Sorrows and The Neon Life.

This CD is housed in a 350g digipak with obi strip (deluxe presentation) and comes with a 12-page booklet with liner notes by Alan Clayson. This is the complete original album + 2 bonus tracks and is limited to 400 copies (rarer than a Yardbirds reunion that doesn’t end in arguments!)

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