Blackfoot - 3] Strikes

Artist Blackfoot

Title Strikes

Language English

Format MP3 192 kb/s

Release Date 1979

Files 9

Time 33:37

Size 46.1 MB

Genre Southern Rock



=============== T R A C K L I S T ===============



01. Road Fever

02. I Got A Line On You

03. Left Turn On A Red Light

04. Pay My Dues

05. Baby Blue

06. Wishing Well

07. Run And Hide

08. Train,Train (Prelude) & 09. Train,Train

10. Highway Song



I combined songs #8 & #9



After missing the boat with Lynyrd Skynyrd (for whom he played drums early on), guitarist/singer Rick Medlocke formed Blackfoot, arguably the first all-Native American rock group. The band struggled for almost a decade, playing run-of-the-mill Southern rock that they eventually injected with extra volume and attitude before signing with Atco, for whom they recorded their 1979 breakthrough Strikes. Known as a ferocious live unit and probably the heaviest of Southern rock bands (see opener "Road Fever"), Strikes also proved that Blackfoot could write great melodies for the gloomy "Left Turn on a Red Light" and the inspired cover version of Free's "Wishing Well." But the band's biggest hit would come in the form of the seven-minute "Highway Song," a tune that was admittedly very reminiscent of Skynyrd's "Freebird" and that helped drive the album to gold status. Also of note is the harmonica performance of Shorty Medlocke (Rick's dad) on his own blues, "Train Train."