Standing In The Road

Standing In The Road

Twins Tom and David Farmer, and school friend Eddie Golga formed Blackfoot Sue along with Alan Jones in Birmingham (UK) in 1970, but they weren’t a ‘one hit wonder’ band as some believe: they also had a hit with Sing Don’t Speak (number 36) a few months after Standing In The Road reached number 4 in the charts in 1972. So they were a ‘two hit wonder’.

In later years, after 3 albums, Blackfoot Sue became Liner, then Outside Edge (as a trio), recording 5 further albums, before reincarnating as Blackfoot Sue in 1993.

Van Credenza used a live rattlesnake to record this version, as a tribute to the band’s major named influence, the Blackfoot Sioux tribe of the Lake Michigan region, who extensively used rattlesnakes in their rituals and traditions. Sihasapa (blackfoot) wore black moccasins. Catlin in his Letters and Notes, written during his stay among the northwestern Indians (1832-39), mentions the Blackfoot Sioux as regularly using rattlesnake parts, and live creatures, in every day work and events.

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