| From Rats to Riches | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Good Rats |
| Cover: | From-rats-to-riches.jpg |
| Released: | 1978 |
| Genre: | Rock |
| Label: | Passport (original US & Canadian release)[1] Radar Records (UK) Harvest (Germany & Australia) Mercury (Greece) |
| Producer: | Flo & Eddie |
| Prev Title: | Ratcity in Blue |
| Prev Year: | 1976 |
| Next Title: | Rats, The Way You Like 'Em |
| Next Year: | 1979 |
From Rats to Riches is an album by the American rock band Good Rats, released in 1978.[2] [3] It was produced by Flo & Eddie.[4] Joe Franco's drumming was influenced primarily by Tony Williams and Carmine Appice.[5]
The Poughkeepsie Journal deemed From Rats to Riches "East Coast urban rock," writing that "underlying all of these darkly decadent circumstances is a determination to get out from under the crowd."[6] The Morning News labeled it "solid, blues-based hard rock from a Zappa-like group."[7]
AllMusic called the album "strong but overlooked."[3] Chuck Eddy, in Terminated for Reasons of Taste, wrote: "Heavier than I would have guessed, and more lyrically and structurally eccentric ... than I figured from supposed bar-band hacks, with sonic influences running the gamut from doo-wop to prog to maybe even punk."[8] Noting a 1993 reissue, Newsday deemed Good Rats "the tri-state area's greatest bar band."[9] The Encyclopedia of Popular Music considered it Good Rats' best album.