Barry Talley

b. Robert L. Talley, 1920, Small Rock and roll, Arkansas, USA, d. 1 August 1995. A Memphis pianist employed in both blues and jazz idioms, Talley was also a composer and adept at a variety of instruments furthermore to keyboards. He 1st found Memphis aged 16 using the communicate desire to become professional musician. He in the beginning became a member of Ernie Ford’s Big Music group like a trumpeter in 1938, before energetic service in Globe Battle II intervened. Nevertheless, he organized and made up music within the military and on his go back to civilian existence used the piano significantly. From 1963-65 he was musical movie director at Small Abner’s Rebel Space, overseeing the task of Wayne Jackson and Duck Dunn (later on members from the Stax Information house music group). Both music artists kept him in high esteem and praised his generosity and persistence, Jackson citing him to be responsible for presenting him to a huge selection of ballads from your 30s that significantly influenced his later on development. Other well known Memphis music artists to reap the benefits of his tuition included Andrew Like, David Porter, Booker T. Jones and Joyce Cobb.