Mississippi Queen, from their debut album Mountain Climbing!, was a roaring, bluesy classic that gave them their biggest hit – a US No 21 – and took up permanent residence on rock radio stations.
The title track of their US Top 20 album Nantucket Sleighride (1971) was another totemic song, a doomy hard rock ballad about a nightmarish whaling voyage that became well known in the UK as the theme music from ITV’s current affairs programme, Weekend World.
The Woodstock recording of their song Long Red later became one of the most sampled tracks in history, appearing on more than 150 hip-hop recordings by Public Enemy, Kanye West, A Tribe Called Quest and more.
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