Category: Classic Rock

Classic rock is a radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s. In the United States, the classic rock format features music ranging generally from the late 1960s to the late 1980s, primarily focusing on commercially-successful hard rock, blues rock, and arena rock popularized in the 1970s.

Ruby Starr – Smokey Places (1977)

Starr toured with Blackfoot from 1977 to 1978. Her third and last album for Capitol, Smoky Places, was released in 1977. By the late 1970s, Starr had made Milwaukee her home town and was a popular act in clubs in the region.
By the early 1980s, Starr had formed a new band called “Grey Star” by joining with a band that performed in and around Mayville, Wisconsin