LEGGESY – Left Turn At Albuquerque [CD version / unreleased ’80s recordings] (2021)
LEGGESY were a hard rock outfit from Albuquerque, New Mexico, which independently recorded, produced and released on Halloween 1987 a self-titled cassette which instantly sold out its initial pressing, however only distributed locally. LEGGESY would also appear alongside BLACK SABBATH, DEEP PURPLE and ALICE COOPER on the internationally released hard rock compilation “High-Intensity Discharge” with two tracks – “Lace By Name” and “Custom Made Lover” – released in November 1988.
Now these and all the songs the band recorded between 1987-1989 are being released on two CD’s, one of them titled “Left Turn At Albuquerque“. Each disc features bonus tracks not present into the digital download versions.
Musically, LEGGESY style was some kind of mix between KISS, early ICON, ROUGHT CUTT, some late ANGEL & more: a pompy melodic hard rock sound in the American way.
The track “Custom Made Lover” would receive a great amount of airplay on…