Born today (July 8) in 1951, Greg Walker is 68 today!
Best know as founding member and bass player for the band Blackfoot. For me, Blackfoot was the second wave* of Southern Rock. Or maybe third, depending on how you slice it. I discovered them with the album Strikes which came out in 1979, which came out about a year and a half after the Skynyrd crash.
Strikes is a very solid album, and includes two iconic songs: Train Train, and Highway Song.
I saw Blackfoot in August '79, when Strikes was pretty new. They were support act for Marshall Tucker Band. Seem to recall they were pretty good....
I must admit that I really don't know much of their later work, by the end of the 80's I was moving away from southern rock... But they're on Spotify, I'll be checking them out!
An interesting interview with Greg Walker here.
Bands I would consider "2nd wave" would include Molly Hatchet ('78), Blackfoot ('79), Henry Paul Band ('79), and .38 Special ('80) [dates are from key albums / singles, not inception]
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