The origin story of Crack The Sky , the progressive rock band that became a sensation and legend in Baltimore, if nowhere else, could have been the inspiration for a couple of music-rich movies, “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” and “The Blues Brothers.” I’ll tell you why.
In the latter, the John Belushi/Dan Aykroyd-led band famously performs for a crowd that had come to hear country-western music, not blues and soul. The crowd turns hostile, throwing beer bottles at the Blues Brothers until they change their tune to the theme from “Rawhide,” the 1960s TV show about cattle drivers.
Something like this happened to Crack The Sky during its early tours in the mid-1970s…