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The Bad Roads left the garage in late Fall 1965 to assault South Louisiana and Texas with their unique hard edged mix of rock n roll and rhythm n blues influenced by the popular British rock bands of the time. They quickly gained a reputation for their high energy performances and musicianship along the Gulf Coast club circuit. The band: Buz Clark, lead vocals and harmonica; Terry Green lead guitar and vocals; Briant Smith, guitar and vocals; Mike Hicks, bass; Danny Kimball, drums were in their mid to late teens and caught up in the rapidly changing social and musical attitudes of the mid-Sixties. Their rapid rise in popularity and the desire to record their own compositions brought them to Floyd Solieu's Jin Records in Ville Platte, La. Sessions at the Jin Studio resulted in the now legendary 45 rpm record Blue Girl B/W Too Bad. The record was a solid hit in multiple local radio markets and broke in Houston in Fall 1966. This led to a wave of concert and television appearances that solidified their reputation as Louisiana's bad boys and the definite hard-to-follow act in concerts. A year later after Terry Green left to be replaced by Bruce MacDonald the band called it quits with their reputation intact and went their separate ways. The Bad Roads reunited for a 1980 concert in Lake Charles, La that set the stage for highly anticipated yearly reunions.
Unbeknown to the band the single Blue Girl had taken on a life of its own with inclusion on compilation albums of classic 60ýs rock ný roll in Europe, Australia, and North America. Sundazed Records issued a special collectors 45 rpm with four songs: Blue Girl, Too Bad, Ray Davie's Till The End Of The Day and John Lee Hooker's Don't Look Back. A lengthy interview in Andrew Brown's 60's collector's magazine Brown Paper Sack brought further attention to The Bad Roads' legacy and music. (click here to see this interview) The raw sound, intense energy and attitude was cited again and again influencing countless punk and new wave bands in America and abroad. A mint copy of Blue Girl became serious collectors of the garage genre's Holy Grail. A copy sold on EBay for $1009.99 with less than fifty copies known in collections worldwide. Click here to see this ebay ad.