Flow – Line’em
Flow (Don Felder, right)
Listen/Download – Flow – Line’em MP3
Greetings all.
The tune I bring you today may be the very first time anything remotely Eagles-related appeared here at Funky16Corners.
Flow, like Hack Bartholomew, was one of the very few, non-jazz artists to have a record released by the storied CTI label.
The band, including a young Don Felder – several years before he wrote ‘Hotel California’ – who had been playing in the Florida garage band scene alongside Bernie Leadon (another future Eagle) and Tom Petty among others.
The Flow album was released in 1970, as was the single of ‘Line’em’, which oddly enough only seems to have been issued in Spain.
The song is a cover of a Leadbelly tune, which was originally a work song/chant used by gandy dancers laying down railroad tracks. The group even drops in a section of another Leadbelly number – ‘Black Betty’ – which would become famous years later in a version by Ram Jam, and is a funky number, with organ, a wailing lead guitar, congas and a beefy rhythm guitar line and a great percussion breakdown in the middle of the song.
I haven’t heard the rest of the album, so I can’t say with any certainty whether ‘Line’em’ is an anomaly.
I can’t say for sure, but I suspect that the lack of success for Flow convinced Creed Taylor to stay out of the rock business.
It’s a cool one, and I hope you dig it.
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Keep the faith
Larry
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I’ve written up how Flow got signed to CTI, and why there was never a second album or much follow-up https://www.ctproduced.com/ct-503/