GALAXIE 500 'ON FIRE' LP Magnolia Park LABEL: ATLANTIC STREET DATE: 11/11/2016

LABEL: ATLANTIC STREET DATE: 11/11/2016 VARIANT: STANDARD BLACK VINYL

The album reached number 1 on the UK charts and became the best-selling album of 1971

• Features riveting performances by southern rock heroes Molly Hatchet

while "Sugaree" and "Bird Song" didn't come out till January of 1972 on Jerry Garcia's eponymous debut solo album

The vinyl version of the release was extremely limited

GALAXIE 500 'ON FIRE' LP Magnolia Park LABEL: ATLANTIC STREET DATE: 11/11/2016black vinyl LP On Fire is widely recognized as the canonic pinnacle of Galaxie 500's career. The artwork conveys this, with a low angle shot of the band, looking up towards an amber sky. This record marked the realization of their signature sound. Nowhere is it clearer than on the album opener, "Blue Thunder," the closest a song can come to waves crashing on a beach in song form. Lyrically inconsequential, with a chorus composed entirely of "la"s, the