Morning Shuffle: Backslidin' Blues by Petra

I was a BIG Petra fan back in the day.  It started with their On Fire record when I was in middle school, and lasted until their Unseen Power record.  I saw them on tour a few times in Albuquerque and one time when they were having an autograph party after the show I brought a STACK of things to be signed, not realizing I should only bring one thing.  Silly me.  I had also gotten some of their back catalog and, while I thought the early 80s and 70s rock was goofy I liked a few of the songs.

Petra has a song called Chameleon, which turns out to be fitting for them musically.  Around the time I started not liking the music anymore I realized they pretty much made music to be compatible with what's popular at the time...and that they were stretching into areas where it didn't seem congruent with the people in the band.  If they were still around today they'd probably be dropping some dubstep on us:)

That said, when this song came up (and I've never heard this one before) I was expecting a contrived piece of garbage - but it wasn't.  The tones in the instrumentation and the urgency and feeling in the vocals make this song feel legit.  I'm kind of surprised that I liked it just a bit.  This is from their first record in 1974.