Blackfoot Music

Origin: Jacksonville, FL

Decades: 1970's, 1980's, and 1990's

Blackfoot were contemporaries of Lynyrd Skynyrd, and tried for years to make it as a Southern rock band, although they finally succeeded as a hard rock outfit, in the manner of AC/DC and the Scorpions. They racked up a hit album (Strikes) and a pair of successful singles ("Train, Train," "Highway Song") in the late 1970s and early 1980s, before they became lost in the post-MTV era of visually oriented bands. The group started out as a quartet: singer/guitarist Rickey Medlocke, the grandson of bluegrass mu... Read More