The rocker’s band shares its latest single
Rickey Medlocke Band, featuring members of Lynyrd Skynyrd & Blackfoot, returns with a scorching new country-infused rock Anthem entitled “Rise Again.” Proceeds from the new track will benefit the Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women’s Movement.
The legendary Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist and his longtime bandmate and collaborator Mark Woerpel deliver a scorching anthem with a call to action to rise from the ashes, shed your skin, and meet your destiny, time and again, holding on to hope, letting go of doubt, and never giving up in the face of resistance.
“Rise Again” follows the much-acclaimed debut single “Never Run Out Of Road” by the Rickey Medlocke Band earlier this year.
The song will be available worldwide on October 15th on the storied record label Rock the Cause Records, per the artist’s wishes a portion of net proceeds will benefit the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center to help end the crisis of violence and human trafficking plaguing Native American Women and Girls. Yesterday (Mon, Oct 14th) was recognized as Indigenous Peoples’ Day in North America.
Medlocke is best known as the frontman/guitarist for the southern rock band Blackfoot and a member of Lynyrd Skynyrd. During his first stint with Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1971 to 1972, he played drums and sang lead on a few songs that would initially be released on 1978’s First and… Last. Medlocke would rejoin Blackfoot in 1972 achieving great commercial success worldwide. Medlocke later returned to Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1996 as a guitarist, by invitation from Gary Rossington. Medlocke continues to tour and record with Lynryd Skynrd to this day. Being of self-identified Native American ancestry, specifically Lakota Sioux and Cherokee, Medlocke was inducted into the Native American Music Hall of Fame in 2008.
