An vital and sometimes underrated group within the improvement of nation rock had been at their peak on December 14, 1974. The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, the band from Springfield, Missouri, had been again with a swift follow-up to their self-titled first album, and again on the US chart with It’ll Shine When It Shines.
The band’s first album had produced the one “If You Wanna Get To Heaven,” which climbed to No.25 on the Sizzling 100. The entire document established a assured type with the highlight on rock guitar, harmonica and the type of shut harmonies extra usually related to the Eagles.
It was produced by the celebrated rock sideman Glyn Johns (the Rolling Stones, The Who and dozens of different large names) with David Anderle, the producer who had been instrumental in MGM signing the Moms of Invention, and labored with many different stars, particularly within the Nineteen Seventies. Anderle died in 2014.
Ozark Mountain Daredevils reached No.26 in America and was licensed gold there some three and a half years after its chart debut, in 1977. Lower than a yr after its launch, the band returned with the follow-up, and one other signature single — this time, one that might convey them airplay around the globe. “Jackie Blue” stays one of many nice “turntable hits” of the interval, successful nice publicity (however sadly not as many gross sales) within the UK. One other monitor from It’ll Shine…, the opening “You Made It Right,” additionally had airplay assist, and have become their solitary US nation singles chart look.
Within the US, “Jackie Blue” grew to become a sleeper hit, getting into the chart within the new yr of 1975 and climbing slowly to spend two weeks at No.3 in Could. It’ll Shine When It Shines might not have repeated the gold certification of its predecessor, however peaked larger, at No.19, and the Ozarks remained an album chart act within the US for the remainder of the last decade.
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The latter-day line-up of the Daredevils, nonetheless that includes unique members John Dillon, Michael Granda, and Steve Money, launched the brand new studio album Off The Overwhelmed Path in 2018. They’ve continued to play stay, to the delight of their loyal followers, the “Dareheads”; 2019 dates included the Rock Legends Cruise, crusing from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, they usually had been again on the highway late in 2021.
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