Looks like just another movie, doesn't it? But it's also another step down the road that leads to The Sidehackers.

Most of the songs sound familiar, like they're deliberately based on radio hits of the time. A few of them are performed by Don Epperson, who stars in the movie. "Sittin' by the Highway" has a Rolling Stones-ish riff with strings and a sunny blues feel as well as some not very original lyrics about having lost at life and love and being at loose ends.

Epperson's second number, "Jailer Let Me Go Home", is a catchy and lilting country song, short and simple and likable.

"How I Fell for You" is also countryish and lilting, and is comfortably in the familiar pop zone of the album.

The fourth and final song from the star is "A Hurt in My Heart", which sounds like it's aiming for Charlie Rich's zone but can't reach it. Epperson's voice just doesn't have Rich's weight, depth, resonance and smooth honeyed darkness. (Who else's voice does?) The arrangement is also somewhat saccharine.

Terry Stafford does two songs. "Wine, Women and Song" starts out agreeably stupid and base but tries too hard to be smart with longer phrases, too many chords and excessive instrumentation. The organ's okay but the horns aren't helping here.

"Night Ride" is simpler and better, too square to have much of an impact but with the potential, at least, to be eerie and dreamy.

A band called The Thirteenth Committee gets a couple of numbers also. The first one is "I Hear Music", which is such a phony, upbeat, "groovy" flower power sort of thing that it's actually slightly depressing.

They fare better with "Makin' Love", whose aggressive, double-picked distorted guitar, harder edge and intensity make this more of a sex song than a love song.

The male and female duo of Bille and Blue get two songs as well. "I Can't Blame Myself" got to me. Something about the fingerpicking guitar and psyche-folk feel. It didn't strike me as any more authentic or original than the other songs but I liked it more.

When they come back for "Playin' Hard To Get" they impressed me again. They've got a solid sound, their voices blend well and there's a good guitar solo on this one.

The next group to get a couple of songs is The Three of August. "A Thousand Butterflies" has a cool, almost deranged keyboard sound and some unexpected minor chords. I liked it.

"Merry Go Round" also had cool organ sounds and some genuinely affecting vocal performances, with a nostalgic and ethereal male/female call and response. Good melody, too, one of the better songs on this record.

Finally there's The Saturday Revue's "Holiday Rider", which is a pleasantly simple song that doesn't try too hard and reminded me a bit of The Kinks.

The liner notes are by Carole Curb, sister of Mike Curb who did a few biker/hot rod movie soundtracks. One of them, The Wild Angels, gets name-checked here, though we're told that Harley Hatcher's music "surpasses all earlier soundtracks".