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The album contains nine cover songs and was recorded primarily with singer Mark Lindsay and session musicians. Lindsay was backed by members of The Wrecking Crew on the "Indian Reservation" single and initially considered releasing the song as a solo recording. No other members of the Raiders contributed to the track.
The last Raiders album, Country Wine (1972), failed to crack the Billboard 200. Later that year, they began preparation on follow up album, Love Music. The intended title track was released as a promotion for the project, but it reached only #97, marking the Raiders' final chart appearance [34] and the album being shelved by Columbia.
The song was covered by Roots Reggae and dub artists in the 1970s : in 1972, Sioux Records released two versions of the song, by Jackie Rowland and another by Funky Brown, and later, in 1977, Lee "Scratch" Perry released at least two vocal and dub versions of the record, recorded at the Black Ark Studios and attributed to The African ...
In addition, the band's three 1966 studio albums—Just Like Us!, Midnight Ride, and The Spirit of '67—were each certified gold in the United States. [3] The band's popularity began to wane during the late 1960s, but in 1971 they released their first U.S. number one single, "Indian Reservation", a song written by John D. Loudermilk. [2]
It was intended to be a solo recording for Lindsay, but for marketing purposes, the decision was made to release the song under the simple band name of "Raiders" with just Lindsay & Revere appearing on the track along with L.A. session players from the Wrecking Crew, and the song was retitled with a subtitle, "Indian Reservation (The Lament of ...
Keith played on their albums Something Happening (1968), Hard ‘N’ Heavy (1969), Alias Pink Puzz (1969), Collage (1970), Indian Reservation (which included the song "Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian)", which would become the group's first number one charting song) (1971), and Country Wine (1972).
A well-known story surrounding one of Loudermilk's songs is that, when he was asked by the Viva!NashVegas radio show about the origins of the Raiders' hit song "Indian Reservation", he fabricated the story that he wrote the song after his car was snowed in by a blizzard and he was taken in by Cherokee Indians.
Paul Revere Dick (January 7, 1938 – October 4, 2014) [1] was an American musician, best known for being the leader, keyboardist and (by dropping his last name to create the stage name) namesake of Paul Revere & the Raiders.