Name: Keith Sikes
Album: I'm Not Strange I'm Just Like You
Year: 1980
Style: Americana, Oldies Rock, Roots Rock
Similar Bands: Fabulous Thunderbirds, Walter Egan, Marshall Crenshaw, Steve Forbert, Blasters
"One-Word" Review: Buddy Holly Updated
Based Out Of: Memphis, Tenn.
Label: Backstreet Records, MCA Distribution
Cover, Sleeve, Record
Back, Lyrics & Credits, Record
- B.I.G. T.I.M.E 3:09
- Love to Ride 4:15
- Smack Dab in the Middle 2:38 (Charlie Calhoun cover)
- Ain't That Some Lovin' 4:31
- 928 2:07 /
- I'm On A Roll 2:45
- Maybe I'm a Mockingbird 3:58
- Makin' It Before They Got Married 3:37
- When My Work Is Done 2:57
- I'm Not Strange (I'm Just Like You) 3:12
Members & Other Bands:
- Keith Sykes - Writer, Vox, Lead & Rhythm Guitars (Jimmy Buffett, Kris Kristofferson, Rita Coolidge, John Prine, Billy Prine, )
- John Hampton - Drums, Backing Vox, Percussion, Engineer (Todd Rundgren, Hard Rain, Todd Agnew, Mylon Fefevre, Tommy Keene, many more)
- Mike Brighardello - Bass, Backing Vox, Percussion (Giant, Steven Curtis, Lydia Miller, Amy Grant, Michael W Smith, Imperials,Glen Campbell, Jummy Swaggert, Alabama, Kenny Rogers, Anne Murray, Neil Diamond, Dolly Parton, Travis Tritt, Oak Ridge Boys, Billy Ray Cyrus, Emmylou Harris, Shania Twain, BJ Thomas, Jeff Foxworthy, Barry Manilow, Corey Hart, Toby Keith, Tim McGraw, Eddie Rabbitt, Lee Ann Womack, Clint Black, Van Zandt, Faith Hill many more)
- Mike Crews - Guitar, Backing Vox
- Joe Hardy - Bass, Backing Vox, Engineer (Alice Cooper, ZZ Top, Ry Cooder, Georgia Satellites, Replacements, Jim Corcoran, Mylon LeFevre, Deborah Conway, CJ Chenier, Degarmo & Key. Siniestro Total, Marie Wilson, Cross Canadian Ragween, Loud Machine, Damn Quailes, Billy Gibbons, Tommy Keene, Tom Cochran, Jeff Healy Band, many more)
- Ed Degarmo - Organ, Engineer (Degarmo & Key, The Cause)
- Jerene Sykes - Producer
- Greg Ladonyi - Mixing
- BACKING VOX/AUDIENCE ON TITLE TRACK: Terry Dane Adney, Redbeard & Sandy, Walter Dawson, Suzanne Phelps, Kay King, Trish Mitchell, John Kilzer, Stacey Parks, Bobby Grace, Harry Chittenden, Jamie Chittenden, Bobby Lane, Sky King, Jody McCarthy, Bobby Maupin, Lynn Yates, Luis Scholes, Robert Donahue, Mark & Debbie Jowers, Gerry Haas, Mary Tillerson, Tommy Jackson, White Heart, Steve Camp, Ace Cannon, Stacie Orrico many more)
- Doug Sax - Mastering
- Mike Reese - Mastering
- Tom Corcoran - Photos
Album Review: The album is part Americana, Roots rock, and part revival of the style of Buddy Holly- pretty much the formula of any singer song writer trying to sound different. The only stand-outish track- and not really for good- is the album ending title track. It features what sounds like a live audience of folks with background conversational ambiance to a Blasters-like song with some yelps, whistles and claps. The audience also does a bit of call and response with the chorus, reminding me of Chuck Berry's My Ding-a-ling live recording.
Sykes has had a long career in the music industry rollercoastering between performing and writing. He has performed solom accompanied many famous musicians, and was even in Jimmy Buffett's Coral Reefers. He has also written many songs recorded by others like The Judds, John Prine, Jerry Jeff Walker, Rosanna Cash, Guy Clark, George Thorogood, Sissy Spacek, Mitch Ryder Rodney Crowell, and he co-wrote Volcano with Jimmy Buffett. He started out in 1968 after hitchhiking to the Newport Music Festival and was inspired by Arlo Guthie's perfomance of "Alice's Restaurant Massacree." He even performed the single B.I.G. T.I.M.E on SNL in 1980, in support of this album, which was released on Tom Petty's record label.
Stand Out Track: B.I.G. T.I.M.E
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Stand Out Track: B.I.G. T.I.M.E
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