Foiled in their fight for acceptance, African-American rock-'n'-rollers
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by Russ DeVault STAFF WRITER; STAFF
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David Ryan-Harris of the Atlanta rock band Follow For Now, which plays The Cotton Club this weekend, agrees. It has "been a long, uphill climb" for the band, which began getting college radio and album-rock station airplay this week for its song "Evil Wheel." "It's a problem, but I don't know who to blame," Mr. Harris says.
...Michael Hughes, program director at WKLS-FM (96rock) in Atlanta, contends that record labels and acts are trying to give black stations "the obligation to play black rock to support their own. We play Living Colour, Follow For Now and other black acts, but I can see why V-103 wouldn't."...
...Living Colour, Follow For Now, Momma Stud, Eye & I, the Family Stand and others have recording deals, but the cycle is a vicious one...
...Follow For Now. Formed in 1988, the Atlanta quintet ranges from metal to rap. Its self-titled debut album includes the anti-drug message of "Temptation" and a swipe at the Ku Klux Klan in "White Hood."
***Thanks to Furious Rose for submitting this interview.
Wednesday, December 30, 1992
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