Album Notes

Valley Lodge is the rock machine comprised of singer/guitar player, and world-class entertainer Dave Hill (Sons of Elvis, Uptown Sinclair, Cobra Verde); guitar player/singer John Kimbrough (Walt Mink), bass player/singer Phil Costello (Tragedy, Satanicide, Stynx, Children of the Unicorn), and drummer Rob Pfeiffer (Sense Field). They are big in Japan and I’m not even kidding. “Semester at Sea” is the long-awaited (at least by them anyway) follow-up to their 2005 self-titled debut. It sounds like Cheap Trick, T. Rex, Big Star, Raspberries, Matthew Sweet, Slade, the Kinks, and probably a bunch of other stuff too. It’s power pop meets pop rock meets your best friend’s parents going out of town when you are sixteen and think that they won’t notice if you threw a pool party. Oh, and it’s 1978 and you are hooked on glue.