J.Blackfoot
John Colbert – born November 20, 1946 in Greenville, Mississippi – was a soul music vocalist best known by his stage name J. Blackfoot. While he had a moderately successful solo career, he is remembered for his work as a member of The Soul Children. Born in Greenville, Mississippi, his family moved to Memphis, Tennessee. By 1965, he was incarcerated at the Tennessee State Penitentiary in Nashville. There, he met Johnny Bragg, the founder of The Prisonaires, a vocal group formed in prison. Inspired by what he learned from Bragg, Blackfoot recorded a single under his real name. Moving back to Memphis, he joined a street-corner doo wop group. Stax Records’ David Porter heard his voice and took notice. When soul vocalist Otis Redding and members of The Bar-Keys were killed in a plane crash in December 1967, Blackfoot was recruited as the new singer for a reconstituted version of The Bar-Kays. The union did not last for long, but Blackfoot was picked by Porter and Isaac Hayes as a member of The Soul Children a new vocal band that they were putting together. For the next decade, the group released seven albums and had 15 singles enter the R&B charts. When The Soul Children split up in 1979, Blackfoot pursued a solo career. He released his debut solo album City Slicker, in 1983. The album included the single “Taxi”, which reached Number 4 on Billboard’s R&B Chart and Number 90 on the Hot 100. He continued to release a series of albums including Physical Attraction (1984), Loveaholic (1991), Reality (1995), Having an Affair (1999), and Woof Woof Meow (2009). John ‘J. Blackfoot’ Colbert died on November 30, 2011.
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Discography
11 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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City Slicker
Soul - Released by Sound Town Records on 1 Jan 1984
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The Very Best of J. Blackfoot
Soul - Released by JEA - Right Now Records on 6 Dec 2011
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It Ain't Over Till It's Over
Soul - Released by JEA on 18 Apr 2006
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Half Way in, Half Way Out
Soul - Released by LocoBop on 22 Sep 2014
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Woof Woof Meow
Soul - Released by JEA - Right Now Records on 18 Aug 2009
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We Earned This
Soul - Released by Made in Memphis Entertainment LLC on 20 Sep 2019
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo