finetune artist: Blackfoot

Southern US rock practitioners Blackfoot formed in 1970, with the original line-up featuring Rick Medlocke (b. 17 February 1950, USA; guitar/vocals), Charlie Hargrett (guitar), Greg Walker (bass/vocals) and Jakson Spires (b. 12 April 1951, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, d. 16 Mach 2005, Fort Pierce, Florida, USA; drums/vocals). The quartet shared common origins with Lynyrd Skynyrd (Medlocke co-writing four songs and singing lead on two tracks on the latter's platinum First And Last) and in turn offered a similar blues/rock-based sound, centred on their leader's confident playing. Medlocke himself was the grandson of Shorty Medlocke, a popular Jacksonville, Florida bluegrass musician of the 50s, whose "Train, Train' was successfully covered by Blackfoot and, in the 90s, Warrant. Rick Medlocke took the name Blackfoot from his own native Indian tradition. Session pianist Jimmy Johnson produced Blackfoot's mid-70s albums at the revered Muscle Shoals studio, but despite this impressive pedigree, the band was unable to translate an in-concert popularity, especially in the UK, into record sales. 1979"s Strikes, the unit's first release for Atco Records, offered a heavier perspective, and generated the US Top 40 hits "Highway Song" and "Train, Train". They enjoyed further success with the track "Fly Away' from 1981"s Marauder. The cream of the band's early work was captured live on Highway Song Live.

Listen to Blackfoot at Finetune.

(2008) Verticle Smiles
(2008) Rick Medlocke & Blackfoot
(2007) Tomcattin'
(2007) Marauder
(2005) Highway Song Live
(2005) Strikes
(2004) Siogo
(1994) Rattlesnake Rock 'N' Roll: The Best of Blackfoot
(1979) Strikes

Train, Train
Highway Song
Wishing Well
Train, Train (Live Version)
Highway Song (Live Version)

DEWTHEDEW on 2008-01-25 20:15:54.250:
train train, good song