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Nashville maker Fred Wayne is as very much a documentarian as he’s musician and business owner, and his Bluesland Productions is known as among the world’s primary independent music businesses specialized in blues, spirit, and American origins music. On Feb 3, 1954, Fred Adam was created in San Antonio, TX, the family members shifting to Wichita, KS, where he grew up. His dad, Fred Adam, Sr., is really a observed jazz trumpet participant who documented using the Johnny Harris Quartet within the ’70s. His uncle, Doug Adam, is a fresh York studio room musician who spent some time working with Paul Butterfield, Orleans, Bloodstream, Perspiration & Tears, and many more. With radio within the middle-’60s being extremely eclectic, with jazz and blues continuously played throughout the house while he was we were young, Fred discovered that he enjoyed everything, inspirations and affects via Louis Armstrong, Elvis Presley, Otis Redding, Buck Owens, and, based on the manufacturer/musician, “every one of the rock and roll organizations.” His 1st attendance in a concert was the Jimmy Smith Trio using the Ramsey Lewis Trio; the next was a Dick Clark street display with Freddy “Boom Boom” Cannon, Keith Allison, Paul Revere & the Raiders, as well as the Animals. To state his family is usually musical can be an understatement, with two of his brothers also available as recording performers and studio music artists. Wayne relocated to Nashville in 1973, since it was still widely open to youthful talent in those times. He immediately discovered function in the studios and on the highway with performers like Billy Joe Shaver, Vern Gosdin, and Townes Vehicle Zandt, amongst others. Outlined in Frets publication as you of Nashville’s best studio musicians, Wayne had an creative part that also leaned toward going after a profession in songwriting. While composing for Mel Tillis’ posting organization, he got his 1st cut using the Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose. In 1977 he documented his 1st LP, Alfred Wayne, for the small Cascade label. By the first ’80s Wayne was playing acoustic guitar with Dr. Hook as well as the music group was utilizing the Memphis Horns to augment the lineup. Once the tour was over, Wayne was asked to be the vocalist and guitarist using the Memphis Horns. He do this for another two years before Horns became as well busy within the studio to keep live work. At this time he began composing for Audigram Music, house of J.J. Cale. He published “Total Moon on Primary Street,” that was nominated for any W.C. Handy Honor as Greatest Blues Track of 1987. The next year he published “Lightning” for Johnny Winter’s Winter season of ’88 recording. The success of the two songs allowed Adam to start out his very own publishing business and really go after the growing “blues increase” from the ’90s. Tune after song began being documented by performers like Koko Taylor, Johnny Wintertime, Junior Wells with Bonnie Raitt, Boy Seals, C.J. Chenier, Katie Webster, and Charlie Musselwhite, and Adam guaranteed five Grammy nominations along the way. He shaped Freddie & the Screamers with people from the Amazing Tempo Aces and Willie Dixon’s music group. The group documented four CDs for different small brands in European countries, Australia, as well as the U.S. The set of people Fred Adam has played electric guitar for is really a veritable who’s who of pop, spirit, jazz, blues, and root base music: Johnny Copeland, Arthur Williams, the Jelly Move Kings, Billy Joe Shaver, Bo Diddley, the Carter Brothers, the Memphis Horns, Dr. Hook, the Excello Legends, Tommy Tutone, Townes Truck Zandt, Dickey Lee, the Delta Jukes, Dark Tie up, Vern Gosdin, Bobby Hebb, and several, many others. Being a manufacturer, he documented famous brands the Sam Place Blues Music group, Homesick Adam, Frank Frost, Roscoe Shelton, and Earl Gaines for brands like Black Best, Proof, Telarc, Ichiban, Appaloosa, Hightone, Dark Magic, and on and on. With this achievement, Bluesland began obtaining classic get good at recordings through the ’50s and ’60s, purchasing the catalogs of Champ, Poncello, Ref-O-Ree, and Bullet/Sur-Speed/Delta. This traditional blues and spirit continues to be reissued all around the globe. He provides performed across European countries along with his wife, Mary-Ann Brandon, and in addition with Frank Frost as well as the Jelly Move Kings, the Excello Legends (Roscoe Shelton and Earl Gaines), and Charles Walker and Johnny Jones. Wayne was the guitarist for the Amazing Tempo Aces since their 1990s reunion, and may also be noticed on the Nothin’ However the Blues disk. Wayne has also documented three single albums and trips and performs along with his personal group when period permits. He began his personal ROAD Information label together with Brandon, having a release that has his dad on trumpet and users from the Amazing Tempo Aces guesting. In his free time he is generally found composing liner records for Aim Information reissues from the Audio Stage Seven series offering music by Moody Scott, Earl Gaines, and Geater Davis, along with other brands like Dark Magic Information, Ace Information (U.K.), and Germany’s Carry Family Information. A publication entitled THE BEST Bang: The American Musical Renaissance 1925-1975 is at the functions in 2006.