Banda:
Redwing
Gênero: Country-Rock, Southern Rock, Roots Rock
Disco: Redwing
Ano: 1971(*)
Faixas:
1. The Underground Railway (Floegel, Samuels, Phillips) 3:01
2. Please Doctor Please (Floegel, Samuels) 3:00
3. Bonnie Bones (Floegel, Samuels, Phillips) 2:51
4. Dark Thursday (Floegel, Samuels) 2:45
5. Sweetwalkin' Lady (Floegel, Samuels) 3:18
6. I'm Your Lover Man (Floegel, Samuels, Phillips) 5:13
7. Shorty Go Home (Floegel, Samuels) 4:29
8. Hogtied (Floegel, Samuels, Phillips) 3:15
9. I'm Countin' On You (To Come Through) (Floegel, Samuels, Phillips) 4:58
10. Oh Maggie (Don't Lift The Weight) (Floegel, Samuels) 3:17
11. (Tell Me Baby) Why You Been Gone So Long (Newbury) 3:01
12. California Blues (Rogers) 3:56
Créditos:
Ron Floegel: Rhythm Guitar, Vocals
George Hullin: Drums, Vocals
Tom Phillips: Guitar, Slide Guitar, Piano
Andrew Samuels: Lead Guitar, Bass, Vocals
(*) CD lançado em 2007.
Disco: What This Country Needs
Ano: 1972(*)
Faixas:
1. Reaching Out (Samuels, Phillips, Floegel) 2:53
2. Baby C'mon (Phillips, Floegel) 3:47
3. Waitin' In Jail (Samuels, Phillips, Floegel) 3:37
4. Walking The Dog (Thomas) 4:00
5. Soul Theft (Samuels, Phillips, Floegel) 4:55
6. Hometown Boy (Samuels, Floegel) 3:46
7. Bye Bye Johnny (Berry) 3:13
8. Every Man Needs A Woman (Samuels, Phillips, Floegel) 3:28
9. One Of America's Ten Most Wanted Men (Hullin) 3:36
10. Oh Carol (Berry) 3:17
Créditos:
Ron Floegel: Rhythm Guitar, Vocals
George Hullin: Drums, Trumpet, Vocals
Tom Phillips: Slide Guitar, Guitar
Andrew Samuels: Lead Guitar, Vocals
Músicos convidados:
Tim Schmit, Dale Lyberger: Bass
Dave Fraser: Piano
Skip Mesquite: Saxophone
(*) CD lançado em 2017.
Disco: Take Me Home
Ano: 1973(*)
Faixas:
1. Here I Go Again (Phillips, Floegel) 2:48
2. Fast Locomotive (Floegel) 2:19
3. Our Day (Samuels) 3:33
4. Katy Warren Breakdown (Warren) 2:42
5. Lost Highway (Floegel) 3:54
6. Take Me Home (Phillips) 5:06
7. Lowdown Samuel (Bogas) 3:37
8. The Maker's Chain (Samuels) 4:15
9. Fingerlickin' (Phillips) 2:47
10. Burning Love (Floegel) 2:55
Créditos:
Ron Floegel: Rhythm Guitar, Vocals
Andrew Samuels: Lead Guitar, Bass, Vocals
George Hullin: Drums, Percussion, Vocals
Tom Phillips: Lead & Gut String Guitars, Pedal Steel, Dobro, Electric Piano, Organ, Mandolin
John Myers: Bass Guitar
Músicos adicionais:
Ed Bogas: Fiddle, Piano
Tiny Moore: Fiddle
Dave Fraser: Piano
(*) CD lançado em 2017.
Disco: Dead Or Alive
Ano: 1974
Faixas:
1. I'm Holding On (Phillips) 3:55
2. You've Got It (Phillips) 2:43
3. Two Brothers (Dead Or Alive) (Phillips) 3:21
4. The Rhythm King (Floegel) 1:58
5. Early Mornin' Sunrise (Phillips) 4:42
6. Foxfire (Phillips) 2:17
7. Shine On Me (Phillips) 3:08
8. Angel Eyes (Floegel) 2:57
9. Give Me A Song (Phillips) 2:54
10. Rainbow Mountain (Floegel) 3:33
Créditos:
Tom Phillips: Slide, Steel & Gut String Guitars, Dobro, Banjo, Harmonica, Saxophone
Ron Floegel: Guitar
Andrew Samuels: Guitar, Bass, Harmonica
George Hullin: Drums, Percussion, Fiddle
Músicos adicionais:
Tiny Moore: Fiddle & Electric Mandolin (faixas 6, 9)
David Fraser: Piano (faixas 4, 8, 10)
Kenneth Nash: Percussion (faixas 1, 5, 6, 8)
Biografia:
Redwing, banda americana de Sacramento, Califórnia, derivou da New Breed (posteriormente denominada Glad), que contava com Timothy B. Schmit (Poco, Eagles) no seu lineup. Após Schmit sair, em 1970, para unir-se à Poco, Andrew Samuels o substituiu. Completavam a banda Tom Phillips, Ron Floegal (sic) e George Hullin.
No início de 1970, a banda gravou seu primeiro disco, homônimo, para a United Artists. O álbum subsequente, "What This Country Needs", teve a participação de Schmit como baixista (desde que Andrew Samuels passou a tocar guitarra, o grupo não conseguira arrumar um baixista permanente). Durante esse período cinco baixistas passaram pela Redwing até Dale Lyberger se firmar no posto.
Naquela época, Tom Phillips entusiasmara-se pela
steel guitar de Rusty Young, da Poco, e começou a tocar o instrumento na Redwing. O terceiro disco da banda, "Take Me Home", de 1973, apresentou uma mistura de country-rock e bluegrass. Já o álbum posterior, "Dead Or Alive", mostrou-se mais roqueiro, havendo a expectativa de que fizesse sucesso. Naquele tempo, a banda já havia trocado Lyberger por John Myers (nota minha: se bem que, em "Dead Or Alive", quem tocou baixo foi Andrew Samuels) (Mike Edmunds,
AllMusic; tradução livre do inglês).