| Marriage on the Rocks/Rock Bottom | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | The Amboy Dukes |
| Cover: | Marriage On The Rocks Rock Bottom.jpg |
| Released: | March 1970 |
| Length: | 45:26 |
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| Prev Title: | Migration |
| Prev Year: | 1969 |
| Next Title: | Survival of the Fittest Live |
| Next Year: | 1971 |
Marriage on the Rocks/Rock Bottom is the fourth album by American rock band The Amboy Dukes, released in 1970. It is the first of two albums released on the Polydor label, which saw the band experiencing creative differences in regards to their musical direction, resulting in a more experimental album than their previous releases.
During the recording of the Amboy Dukes' albums for Polydor Records, the band experienced creative differences in regards to their musical direction.[1] During this album's recording sessions, drummer Dave Palmer left the group to become a recording engineer.[2]
AllMusic wrote, "Amboy Dukes' Marriage on the Rocks/Rock Bottom is a very musical record, more experimental than their releases on Mainstream Records".[3] The website compared the band's recordings on Polydor to the band Ten Years After[3] and said that "Marriage/Part 1: Man/Part 2: Woman/Part 3: Music" sounded like the band Jethro Tull, calling it a progressive blues song.[3] The album's songs are longer and more reliant on improvisation, with AllMusic noting that "Breast Fed Gator (Bait)" is one of the only songs that could have been released as a single, due to its shorter length compared to the rest of the album.[3] AllMusic called "Children of the Woods" "workable British pop".[3] AllMusic compared "The Inexhaustible Quest for Cosmic Cabbage", which quotes Béla Bartók's "String quartet no. 2",[4] to the Beach Boys, Spirit and Ten Wheel Drive, and said that it sounded like the Amboy Dukes hoped "to be the Mothers of Invention".[3]
All tracks composed by Ted Nugent, except where indicated.