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Strikes (album)

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Released
  
April 1979

Producer
  
Al Nalli, Henry Weck

Artist
  
Blackfoot

Label
  
Atco Records

Length
  
33:41

Strikes (1979)
  
Tomcattin' (1980)

Release date
  
April 1979

Genres
  
Southern rock, Hard rock

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Recorded
  
Subterranean Studio, Ann Arbor, Michigan Sound Suite Studios, Detroit, Michigan Bee Jay Studios, Orlando, Florida

Similar
  
Blackfoot albums, Southern rock albums

Strikes is the third studio album by the American Southern rock band Blackfoot, released in April 1979. The album has received a platinum certification from the RIAA in April 1986. The album features two minor pop hits: "Highway Song" (#26) and "Train, Train" (#38).

Contents

"Train, Train" was covered by country music legend Dolly Parton on her 1999 album The Grass Is Blue which won the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album. Warrant covered the song on their 1990 album Cherry Pie. The song has appeared in the 2011 film Straw Dogs.

Blackfoot strikes full album


Personnel

Band members
  • Rickey Medlocke - lead vocals, guitar
  • Charlie Hargrett - guitar
  • Greg T. Walker - bass guitar, keyboards, vocals
  • Jakson Spires - drums, percussion, vocals
    • Additional personnel
  • Pat McCaffrey - keyboards
  • Shorty Medlocke - harmonica (track 8)
  • Cub Koda - harmonica (track 9)
  • Donna D. Davis - backing vocals
  • Pamela T. Vincent - backing vocals
  • Cynthia M. Douglas - backing vocals
  • Henry "H-Bomb" Weck - percussion, recording engineer, producer
  • Al Nalli - producer

    • Songs

    1Road Fever3:10
    2I Got a Line on You3:20
    3Left Turn on a Red Light4:39

    References

    Strikes (album) Wikipedia
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