Maurice Dollison

Maurice Dollison, Jr. provides enjoyed success in a number of guises. As blues guitarist Money McCall, he documented such middle-60s R&B strikes as “IF YOU AWAKEN” and toured within Dick Clark’s Caravan of Superstars. A program guitarist for Minnie Ripperton, Natalie Cole, Etta Adam, Willie Dixon, the Temptations, the Drifters, the Coasters as well as the Rotary Connection, he penned top pop and R&B music for Otis Clay, Etta Adam, Ramsey Lewis, Phil Upchurch and Bloodstream, Perspiration and Tears. A indigenous of New Madrid, Missouri, Dollison released his music profession at an extremely young age, performing with gospel group, the Belmont Performers, before his thirteenth birthday. Shifting to Chicago, in 1961, he discovered employment being a guitarist for gospel groupings like the Five Blind Guys of Mississippi, and, along with his sibling, Leon, the Gospel Songbirds as well as the Dixie Harmonizers. An employee article writer for the Chess Documenting Company, by age twenty, he composed music for Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Small Johnny Taylor and Small Milton. Embracing secular music in 1963, Dollison continued to record for Thomas, Checker, Ronn, Paula and Columbia. He made an appearance in the soundtracks of Great Balls Of Fireplace and Ginger Ale Afternoon and co-produced and performed on Willie Dixon’s Grammy award-winning record, Hidden Attraction, in 1988. Dollison toured European countries, in the past due-1990s, within the Chicago Blues Legends revue.