{"id":7485,"date":"2018-09-30T09:41:35","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T14:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=7485"},"modified":"2018-09-30T09:41:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T14:41:35","slug":"flow-lineem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=7485","title":{"rendered":"Flow – Line’em"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Flow (Don Felder, right) <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Listen\/Download – Flow – Line’em MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Greetings all.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The tune I bring you today may be the very first time anything remotely Eagles<\/strong>-related appeared here at Funky16Corners.<\/p>\n

Flow<\/strong>, like Hack Bartholomew<\/strong>, was one of the very few, non-jazz artists to have a record released by the storied CTI label.<\/p>\n

The band, including a young Don Felder<\/strong> \u2013 several years before he wrote \u2018Hotel California\u2019 \u2013 who had been playing in the Florida garage band scene alongside Bernie Leadon<\/strong> (another future Eagle) and Tom Petty<\/strong> among others.<\/p>\n

The Flow album was released in 1970, as was the single of \u2018Line\u2019em\u2019, which oddly enough only seems to have been issued in Spain.<\/p>\n

The song is a cover of a Leadbelly<\/strong> 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 \u2013 \u2018Black Betty\u2019 \u2013 which would become famous years later in a version by Ram Jam,\u00a0<\/strong>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.<\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t heard the rest of the album, so I can\u2019t say with any certainty whether \u2018Line\u2019em\u2019 is an anomaly.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t say for sure, but I suspect that the lack of success for Flow convinced Creed Taylor<\/strong> to stay out of the rock business.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a cool one, and I hope you dig it.<\/p>\n

Also, make sure to follow Funky16Corners<\/strong> on Instagram<\/strong><\/a>, Twitter<\/strong><\/a> and Facebook<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Keep the faith<\/strong><\/p>\n

Larry<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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