Brownsville Station

A Detroit area rock & roll band formed in 1969 by guitarists <a href="spotify:artist:1fxnKYCvcaKkWqXGJOiDWR">Cub Koda</a> and Mike Lutz, Brownsville Station's original members also included T.J. Cronley (drums) and Tony Driggins (bass), with Henry Weck replacing Cronley on drums in 1971. Initially influenced by <a href="spotify:artist:293zczrfYafIItmnmM3coR">Chuck Berry</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:2bmixwMZXlkl2sbIbOfviq">Bo Diddley</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:2zyz0VJqrDXeFDIyrfVXSo">Jerry Lee Lewis</a>, and other '50s rockers, their early albums included inspired covers and genre-faithful originals, all presented in Marshall stack, double bass drum bigness. Far more effective as a live act (with <a href="spotify:artist:1fxnKYCvcaKkWqXGJOiDWR">Koda</a>'s on-stage banter influencing everyone from <a href="spotify:artist:69Mj3u4FTUrpyeGNSIaU6F">J. Geils</a>' <a href="spotify:artist:003kZCrZhoxCckVJ2jCiJC">Peter Wolf</a> to <a href="spotify:artist:3EhbVgyfGd7HkpsagwL9GS">Alice Cooper</a>), the group finally hit paydirt in late 1973 with its number three hit, the <a href="spotify:artist:1fxnKYCvcaKkWqXGJOiDWR">Koda</a> and Lutz-penned "Smokin' in the Boys Room." After the group disbanded in 1979, <a href="spotify:artist:1fxnKYCvcaKkWqXGJOiDWR">Koda</a> went on to a career as a solo recording artist (see separate entry) and as a journalist for several music magazines before succumbing to kidney disease in the summer of 2000. Lutz went on to produce artists for <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Atlantic%22">Atlantic</a> and <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Epic%22">Epic</a>/<a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Sony+Records%22">Sony Records</a>, performed with the band No Mercy, and co-wrote songs and toured with fellow Michigan rocker <a href="spotify:artist:21ysNsPzHdqYN2fQ75ZswG">Ted Nugent</a>. Weck also went into engineering and producing, working with artists in the <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Atco%22">Atco</a> and <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Atlantic+Records%22">Atlantic Records</a> stable, including the band <a href="spotify:artist:10rzK0sLCXsUlDhl8ed0MV">Blackfoot</a>. Lutz and Weck joined forces again in 2012, releasing a new album, Still Smokin', that same year, and then returned to the road as Brownsville Station in 2013 with a lineup that also featured guitarists Billy Craig and Arlen Viecelli. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine & Steve Leggett, Rovi