| Marauder | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | July 1981 | |||
| Recorded | Subterranean Studio, Ann Arbor, Michigan | |||
| Genre | Southern rock, hard rock | |||
| Length | 37:26 | |||
| Label | Atco | |||
| Producer | Al Nalli, Henry Weck. | |||
| Blackfoot chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Martin Popoff | [2] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide |  [3] |
Marauder is the fifth studio album by the Southern rock band Blackfoot, released in 1981.
Contents
The album continued in the same vein as their previous successes, Strikes (1979) and Tomcattin' (1980). Opening up with the heavy "Good Morning", and including the ballad "Diary of a Workingman", Marauder also sported the hit "Fly Away", which reached No. 42, and another Shorty Medlocke appearance on the "Rattlesnake Rock n' Roller", this time with a spoken introduction and banjo solo. Marauder was the last of their albums that were purely hard, driving, rock – they unsuccessfully introduced synthesizers to their sound through the 1980s, and their popularity waned. Eduardo Rivadavia describes Marauder as "...one of the band's best hard rockers to date", and "the last great Blackfoot album". [1]
The band officially broke up amid declining fortunes in the mid-1980s, though Medlocke resumed recording under the name Blackfoot a few years later. He is now, again, a member of Lynyrd Skynyrd. [4]
Heavy metal band Exodus covered "Good Morning" which was released as a b-side to the single "The Lunatic Parade" (1990).
