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Reader Dave Wasser tipped me off to this California-based band active in the late 1960s and into the 1970s, that had something of a local following, but never made it nationally. (They aren't even on Spotify!) The style is sort of rockabilly, but also calls to mind The Byrds, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and others of the era. This is the lead number of their debut album:
More information about Redwing or recommendations of other songs welcome.
Never heard of 'em. A March 25, 1972, ad in Billboard includes these blurbs:
Billboard / "The band's happy style always works."
Rolling Stone / "This is the finest hard rock/country band in the business today."–J.R. Young
Los Angeles Times / "Bristling with verve, vitality, and a marvelously controlled energy…"–Mike Sherman
Melody Maker / "They are music and movement personified in a streamlined show."–Andrew Meens
The Herald (New York) / "It's a stone groove to hear a group that just gets it on and stomps…"–Tony Glover
Fusion / "Good God, they're good!"
Crawdaddy / "…a devastating music which is not new but is different. Music has never sounded better. Redwing satisfies."–Lita Eliscu
A May 22, 1971, Billboard review by George Knemeyer of a live show at LA's Bitter End West concludes, "Redwing was at its best on straight rock and roll, although the country rock tunes were quite nice also. Assuming Redwing can stay together (which it has for seven years so far), the music should get even more impressive."
Also reviewed in that May '71 issue, live performances by Alice Cooper, Holy Modal Rounders, Tony Williams, Tammy Wynette and George Jones, Linda Ronstadt, and Jo Jo Gunne.
I'm looking forward to listening to this video and other material by Redwing. They had five albums on Fantasy!
I have to add still more, drawn from a piece in the Sept. 4, 1971, Billboard. The band's label, Fantasy, had produced two short films to promote its stable. The first featured Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Sweet Hitch Hiker." The second, all of four minutes, featured Redwing doing "Shorty Go Home." It was filmed at Berkeley's New Orleans House (the site of Hot Tuna's first album). New Orleans House is no more; the space is now an automotive body shop. It is four blocks from where I sit in Berkeley.
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