Artist:Southern Pacific
Song:Any Way the Wind Blows
Album:Greatest Hits
After The Doobie Brothers split up in 1982, that band's guitarist John McFee and drummer Keith Knudsen formed the country rock band Southern Pacific. They scored four top ten country hits in the 80s. The other original members were lead singer Tim Goodman. McFee produced Goodman's 1981 album Footsteps. Keyboardist Glen Hardin and bassist Jerry Scheff are career sideman. Both guys worked with Elvis Presley. Southern Pacific signed with Warner Bros. and released the 1984 album Southern Pacific. Reno Bound was a top ten country hit. Hardin and Scheff were replaced respectively by Kurt Howell and former Creedence Clearwater Revival bassist Stu Cook. After the 1986 album Killbilly Hill, Goodman left to go solo and was replaced by David Jenkins of Pablo Cruise. The 1988 album Zuma featured Southern Pacific's highest charting single New Shade of Blue. It reached #2 on the Country Singles chart. Any Way the Wind Blows is from the 1989 album County Line. It reached #4 on the Country Singles chart. McFee wrote the song with Andre Passis who wrote the 1984 Huey Lewis & the News hit Walking on a Thin Line. Southern Pacific wrote all the songs and produced with Jim Ed Norman. I guess he made sure they sounded country. And that was the major criticism of Southern Pacific at the time. They didn't sound country enough. Any Way the Wind Blows appeared on the soundtrack of the Clint Eastwood film Pink Cadillac. There are scenes from the film in the video. By this time, The Doobie Brothers had reformed. So McFee and Knudsen disbanded Southern Pacific and returned to The Doobie Brothers. Warners released this comp after the split. Knudsen died in 2005. But McFee continues with The Doobie Brothers today. Here's the video for Any Way the Wind Blows by Southern Pacific.
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