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Ain't Life Grand

Black Oak Arkansas is a band historically given to wretched excess, but this album features smooth harmonies, clear guitar tones and any number of crisp, concise rockers. It is highlighted by a captivating rendition of the Beatles' "Taxman," an actual melodic ballad, "Love Can Be Found," and "Cryin'...

2006 RS: Not Rated

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Biography

Black Oak Arkansas was a Southern heavy-metal group whose boogie philosophy and long-haired, bare-chested frontman, Jim Dandy Mangrum, were briefly popular in the early to mid-'70s. All of the band's original members grew up in rural Arkansas near the small town of Black Oak. They were in a juvenile gang before becoming a band. (In a 1976 press release they boast of having stolen a P.A. system.) T...

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