Rickey Medlocke has stepped out from Lynyrd Skynyrd for “Never Run Out of Road,” a new charity single he recently released. The guitarist composed the song with Mark Woerpel, a member of the latter-day version of Medlocke's Blackfoot; the recording includes piano by Skynyrd's Peter Keys and backing vocals by Medlocke's wife Stacy Michelle, who's one of Skynyrd's backup vocalists.
Proceeds from the single go to National Indigenous Women's Resource Center, which works to end the trafficking of Native American Women (Medlocke is of Lakota, Sioux and Cherokee descent), as well as the International Wolf Center and the Dreamcatchers Charitable Fund in Canada. Medlocke tells us that the charitable component in particular made doing the song worthwhile:
“This business has been good to me in my life, and the fans have been incredible and good to me in my life and I just feel like thi sis a way for me, not only the music that we play live and people come to see us and stuff, but this is a very good cause and a very good way to give back in some form. So that's why I did it.” :31
