McGuffey Lane 3 lp lot Aqua Dream, S/T & Let The Hard Times Roll w/ Bob McNelly

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McGuffey Lane 3 lp lot Aqua Dream (Vg+), S/T & Let The Hard Times Roll - Ex   Promo Copies! 

McGuffey Lane is an   band from . McGuffey Lane was formed in 1972 by Terry Efaw and Steve Reis, who played together under the name Scotch & Soda. After adding vocalist and guitarist Bobby Gene McNelly, they renamed themselves McGuffey Lane, the location of Reis's  home.

They eventually expanded to a sextet and became well-known locally, releasing their first album on their own Paradise Island record label. The LP sold over 40,000 copies, and eventually resulted in their signing with . They reissued the debut in 1980 and toured with the,  and the . The follow-up, Aqua Dream, featured the single "Start It All Over", which became a crossover pop hit, reaching No. 97 on the .

The group scored several minor hits on the country charts, but their label wanted to market them more as a pop-country act in the vein of. They moved to  in hopes of focusing on success on the country charts, but as they prepared 1984's Day By Day, keyboardist Tebes Douglass was killed in a . Soon after, Bobby Gene McNelly left the group to pursue a solo career, and around 1985 the group was dropped from Atlantic. In 1986, they released a  album in support of the Central Ohio Lung Association; towards the end of the year they inked a sponsorship with , but a planned comeback fizzled.

The group played into the late 1980s but had dissolved by 1990. In 1995 they reunited after releasing a greatest hits album, and continued performing locally in Ohio into the 2000s. Two full-length releases followed the reunion, in 1998 and 2002. Today, McGuffey Lane still performs 30-35 concerts annually. In March 2010, Lick Records signed a distribution deal with E1 Entertainment, which will allow the new McGuffey Lane album to be sold in  and . On August 18, 2009 they opened for  at  in Columbus, Ohio.