Rough Riders (album) explained

Rough Riders
Type:	Studio album
Artist:	Lakeside
Cover:	Rough riders.jpg
Released:	1979
Recorded:	1979
Genre:	Soul, funk
Label:	SOLAR
Producer:	Dick Griffey, Lakeside, Leon Sylvers III
Prev Title:	Shot of Love
Prev Year:	1978
Next Title:	Fantastic Voyage
Next Year:	1980

Rough Riders is the third album by the American band Lakeside.^{[1] [2]} Released in 1979 on the SOLAR Records label, it was produced by Dick Griffey, Lakeside, and Leon Sylvers III. "Pull My Strings" was a hit.^[3]

Critical reception

The Oakland Post praised the "dynamic instrumentation, pinpoint rhythms and power funk chords layered with four-part harmonies dancing under strong, alternating lead vocals."^[4] The New York Times wrote that Rough Riders "displays a competent show band adept at several rhythm-and-blues idioms, but the material and arrangements are drearily formulaic."^[5]

Track listing

1. "Rough Rider" (Stephen Shockley) - 4:45
2. "All in My Mind" (Otis Stokes, Stephen Shockley, Tiemeyer McCain) - 4:42
3. "If You Like Our Music (Get Up and Move)" (Otis Stokes, Stephen Shockley) - 4:33
4. "I Can't Get You Out of My Head" (Norman Beavers) - 5:36
5. "Pull My Strings" (Fred Lewis) - 6:54
6. "I'll Never Leave You" (Bryan Evans, Tiemeyer McCain) - 6:15
7. "From 9:00 Until" (Otis Stokes) - 6:04

Personnel

• Backing vocals, bass, clavinet, guitar, lead vocals, piano (acoustic), synthesizer - Otis Stokes
• Backing vocals, bells, lead vocals - Tiemeyer McCain
• Backing vocals, electric piano (Fender Rhodes), lead vocals, piano (acoustic) - Mark Adam Wood, Jr.
• Backing vocals, lead vocals, vocals - Thomas Shelby
• Bass - Marvin Craig
• Clavinet, ensemble (string), keyboards, synthesizer - Norman Beavers
• Clavinet, guitar, synthesizer - Stephen Shockley
• Congas, percussion, synthesizer (bass), timbales - Fred Lewis
• Drums - Fred Alexander Jr.

External links

• Lakeside-Rough Riders at Discogs

Notes and References

1. Book: Thompson . Dave . Funk . 2001 . Backbeat Books . 268.
2. Book: Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities . 2010 . NYU Press . 272.
3. News: Four superstar musical groups from Solar Records... . Oakland Post . 558/559 . 29 June 1980 . 4.
4. News: Lakeside's story began in 1969 in Dayton, Ohio... . Oakland Post . 555 . 25 June 1980 . 10.
5. News: Holden . Stephen . Solar Could Be the Motown of the 80's . The New York Times . 23 Mar 1980 . D25.