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'J. Blackfoot' is a nickname
John Colbert picked up during his boyhood
years in Memphis, Tennessee. He broke into
the music business at age nineteen as lead
singer of a new line-up of The Barkays,
whose original members had died in the plane
crash that also killed Otis Redding.
Isaac Hayes and David Porter
(famed for their Sam & Dave productions)
then recruited Blackfoot to sing lead in a
new vocal group, The Soul Children (who
scored 15 R&B hits between 1968 and 1978).
After the group split up,
Blackfoot began his career as a solo artist,
produced by Stax colleagues Homer Banks and
Chuck Brooks. Success came with the R&B
smash 'Taxi´ followed by 'Just One
Lifetime.’‘
'U-Turn,' released in 1996, is an exemplary
Banks and Brooks production that shows off
Blackfoot at his best. Go-to tracks include:
U-TURN, SUNSHINE LADY, and the
gorgeous ballad I'M
LEAVING NOW. |
