Don Brooks

Don Brooks had a profession that took him from using blues harp in folk night clubs in Tx to playing periods with Billy Joel, the Bee Gees, and Diana Ross on a few of their best-selling information. A indigenous of Dallas, he generally had a like of music and transformed toward the harmonica after hearing Sonny Terry playing with an record in the first ’60s. With the middle-’60s, he was playing night clubs and coffeehouses, locally associated blues legends like Mance Lipscomb and Lightnin’ Hopkins and up-and-coming performers such as for example Jerry Jeff Walker. Brooks outgrew the limited folk/blues picture in Dallas and transferred to NY in 1967, where he became a favorite participant in Greenwich Community. He performed with David Bromberg and John Hammond Jr., and by the first ’70s, he previously enroll in Waylon Jennings’ support music group. He became among the best studio music artists in NY and made an appearance on information like the Bee Gees’ Primary Training course, Yoko Ono’s Sense the area, Judy Collins’ Judith, as well as the Adam Gang’s Newborn through the ’70s. With the ’80s, his harmonica, using its basic, specific dexterity, was a digital fixture on the brand new York music picture, and his device graced the information of the Speaking Heads among many others, aswell as the Roger Miller-composed Broadway musical Big River, and he was noticed for weeks on open public television over the soundtrack of Ken Uses up’ documentary series The Civil Battle. Brooks passed away of leukemia in NY through the fall of 2000.