Marauder is the fifth studio album by the Southern rock band Blackfoot , released in 1981.
5-413: The album continued in the same vein as their previous successes, Strikes (1979) and Tomcattin' (1980). Opening up with the heavy "Good Morning", and including the ballad "Diary of a Workingman", Marauder also sported the hit "Fly Away", which reached No. 42, and another Shorty Medlocke appearance on the "Rattlesnake Rock n' Roller", this time with a spoken introduction and banjo solo. Marauder
10-575: A Platinum certification status by the Recording Industry Association of America . It features two singles: " Highway Song ", which reached number 26 on the Billboard Hot 100, and "Train, Train", which reached number 38. "Train, Train" was originally recorded in 1971 by Rick Medlocke's grandfather Shorty Medlocke and his daughter, as Shorty Medlock & Mickey with the Fla. Plow Hands, and
15-707: Is the third studio album by the American Southern rock band Blackfoot . It was released on March 7, 1979, through Atco Records . Recording sessions took place at Subterranean Studios in Ann Arbor , at Sound Suite Studios in Detroit , and at Bee Jay Studios in Orlando . Production was handled by Henry Weck and Al Nalli. The album debuted at number 183 on the Billboard 200 and later reached number 42. On April 18, 1986, it received
20-441: The name Blackfoot a few years later. He is now, again, a member of Lynyrd Skynyrd . Heavy metal band Exodus covered "Good Morning" which was released as a b-side to the single "The Lunatic Parade" (1990). All songs written and composed by Rick Medlocke and Jakson Spires, except where noted. All credits adapted from album liner notes. Blackfoot Additional musicians Production Strikes (album) Strikes
25-416: Was the last of their albums that were purely hard, driving, rock – they unsuccessfully introduced synthesizers to their sound through the 1980s, and their popularity waned. Eduardo Rivadavia describes Marauder as "...one of the band's best hard rockers to date", and "the last great Blackfoot album". The band officially broke up amid declining fortunes in the mid-1980s, though Medlocke resumed recording under
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