Corky Laing - Toledo Sessions (2019)

Toledo Sessions is a solo studio album by legendary Canadian rock drummer and songwriter Corky Laing, best known as a permanent member of the cult hard rock band Mountain. The album was officially released on September 27, 2019, on Prudential Records (in 2020, the album was also reissued on colored 180-gram vinyl).

This release was a landmark event, as it was the musician's first full-length solo studio album in 42 years (after the 1977 album Making It On The Street).

Corky Laing himself noted that the atmosphere and energy of this material took him back to the times of Mountain's best classic works, such as the albums Climbing! and Nantucket Sleighride.

Stylistically, it is classic hard rock, heavily seasoned with fat, heavy blues rock and old-school drive. Corky, who was 71 at the time of the release, demonstrated the same powerful and inventive drumming as he did at the beginning of his career in the 1970s.

The main feature of the recording was a strict reference to the "old school": the album was recorded and mixed entirely in analog format. Thanks to this, the record received a warm, natural and voluminous sound without modern sterile digital smoothing. According to Lang, this sound "can be literally felt with your touch."