"I could have gotten the elephants to stomp on their village, but I didn't": The wild story of Black Oak Arkansas, the band who had it all then gave it all away

Black Oak Arkansas leaning against a car.

Black Oak Arkansas were one of the great southern rock bands, sending ten albums into the US chart and creating a storm at 1974's California Jam alongside Deep Purple and Black Sabbath. In 2008, Classic Rock spoke to founding frontman Jim Dandy and guitarist Rickie Lee Reynolds, who told us a story like no other.

“I’m trying to get out of the rescue business, man, but it’s hard to quit.”