Artist: Black Oak Arkansas
Album: Street Party
Genre: Southern Rock, Rock
Release Date: 1974/2000
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 38:29
Total Tracks: 13
Total Size: 843 MB

Tracklist:

01. Black Oak Arkansas – Dancing In The Streets (02:37)
02. Black Oak Arkansas – Sting Me (02:50)
03. Black Oak Arkansas – Good Good Woman (03:16)
04. Black Oak Arkansas – Jail Bait (02:27)
05. Black Oak Arkansas – Sure Been Workin’ Hard (03:23)
06. Black Oak Arkansas – Son Of A Gun (04:31)
07. Black Oak Arkansas – Brink Of Creation 1 (00:42)
08. Black Oak Arkansas – I’m A Man (03:42)
09. Black Oak Arkansas – Goin’ Home (03:23)
10. Black Oak Arkansas – Dixie (03:39)
11. Black Oak Arkansas – Everybody Wants To See Heaven “Nobody Wants To Die” (03:07)
12. Black Oak Arkansas – Hey Ya’ll (04:09)
13. Black Oak Arkansas – Brink Of Creation 2 (00:38)

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Street Party, Black Oak Arkansas’ follow-up to their most successful opus, High on the Hog, had a respectable chart performance, but in no way does the 1974 Atco release live up to the standard of the group’s previous recordings. James “Jim Dandy” Mangrum’s rockin’ redneck shtick simply overpowers the music on Street Party, setting the tone for a string of inferior offerings. Eventually, the band’s movement away from their Southern rock roots and into diverse and sometimes comical side-roads would cost them their relevancy and most of their audience. Too much emphasis is placed on style and musical devices, while the amount of straight-ahead Southern rock is unduly restricted. The bluegrass- and gospel-tinged “Brink of Creation” is the only non-rocker that really works on this record. Mangrum’s lazy croaking squelches many other numbers like the spiritual “Sure Been Workin’ Hard” and “I’m a Man.” Despite this LP’s respectable sales, it should only be approached with extreme caution.