Artist: Blackfoot
Genre(s):
Rock
Other
Rock: Hard-Rock
Discography:
Rattlesnake Rock 'N' Roll: The Best Of Blackfoot
Year: 1994
Tracks: 13
Vertical Smiles
Year: 1984
Tracks: 9
Siogo
Year: 1983
Tracks: 10
Highway Song Live
Year: 1982
Tracks: 11
Marauder
Year: 1981
Tracks: 9
Tomcattin'
Year: 1980
Tracks: 10
Strikes
Year: 1979
Tracks: 10
Flyin' High
Year: 1976
Tracks: 10
Blackfoot were coevals of Lynyrd Skynyrd, and tried for age to draw in it as a Southern rock banding, although they finally succeeded as a concentrated rock kit, in the trend of AC/DC and the Scorpions. They racked up a fall album (Strikes) and a pair of successful singles ("Prepare, Train," "Highway Song") in the late 1970s and early 1980s, earlier they became lost in the post-MTV era of visually oriented bands.
The group started out as a quadruple: singer/guitarist Rickey Medlocke, the grandson of blue grass musician Shorty Medlocke, world Health Organization wrote "Train, Train"; drummer/singer Jakson Spires, bassist/singer Greg T. Walker, and lead guitar player Charlie Hargrett. They were signed to Island Records in 1975, obviously as that label's resident Southern rockers, only stirred to Epic Records the following year. Neither relationship was successful, only in 1979, afterward moving to Atco, their first album for the new label, Strikes, hit a reactive chord -- the grouping spent the following few old age on Atco, racking up telling gross sales with the follow-ups Tomcattin' and Piranha.
In the mid-'80s, the group added ex-Uriah Heep keyboardman Ken Hensley in order to impart a new side to their sound. The group's fortunes declined amid the advent of MTV and the growth in grandness of sway video promotional clips, as well as the influence of sounds from Europe and Australia, and they never recovered, scorn efforts to accommodate their sound and picture. Hensley was replaced dear the ending of their history, just Blackfoot (world Health Organization took their call from the Native American tribe, parting of Medlocke's inheritance) had humiliated up by 1984, earlier the new lineup recorded. Medlocke revived the call in 1990 with a new patronage group.
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