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Crusaders 1: Blue Thumb: BTS-6001 96 29 3 — 1973 The 2nd Crusade: BTS-7000 45 4 1 — Unsung Heroes: BTS-6007 173 33 — — 1974 Scratch: Live BTS-6010 73 16 4 — Southern Comfort: Studio BTSY-9002 31 3 — — 1975 Chain Reaction: BTSD-6022 26 9 1 — 1976 Those Southern Knights: BTSD-6024 38 9 2 — 1977 Free as the Wind: BT-6029 41 8 1 ...
Those Southern Knights is a 1976 studio album by the Crusaders. It peaked at number 38 on the Billboard Top LPs chart, [4] as well as number 9 on the Soul LPs chart [5] and number 2 on the Top Jazz LPs chart. [6] It includes "Keep That Same Old Feeling" and "And Then There Was the Blues". [1]
Pam Lambert of the Wall Street Journal wrote that the Crusaders on sound fresher than most 'new' artists" and "the album features the Crusaders' typically eclectic mixture of styles." [ 3 ] Liam Lacey of the Globe and Mail remarked "One of the oldest groups in recorded history, The Crusaders have survived since the 1950s by careful adaptations ...
The album peaked at No. 18 on the pop album charts and the title track made the top 10 on the R&B chart, No. 36 on Billboard′s Hot 100 chart, and No. 5 in the UK. [7] Later albums by the group featured singers Bill Withers and Joe Cocker.
The AllMusic review by Jim Newsom says the album "finds the Crusaders at the top of their form" and that it is "one of the tastiest concoctions of the mid-'70s jazz-fusion era". [1] It concludes that Chain Reaction "helped lure young, rock and soul-oriented listeners over to check out the jazz side".
In 1961, he co-founded the soul jazz/hard bop group The Jazz Crusaders. [2] Henderson left the group (who by then had changed their name to The Crusaders) in 1976 to pursue a career in producing, but revived The Jazz Crusaders in 1995. In 2007, Henderson took a position with the California College of Music in Pasadena, California.
Its cover picture appears to be a reference to the Teaser and the Firecat album cover; both feature a boy in a top hat, "Teaser", accompanied by an orange cat, "Firecat", beside a fence with a full moon overhead. A compilation album with the same title was released in 2000 on the A&M and UTV Records labels. In many respects, it is a ...
The album contains darker content than previous Primus efforts, featuring lyrics dealing with murder ("My Name Is Mud"), suicide ("Bob"), and alienation ("Nature Boy")."). The band has commented that prior to recording, they had been touring for nearly two solid years and were thus in a somber mood, although in a 2015 interview frontman Les Claypool described the era surrounding the album as ...