Tag Archives: 1960s – 1970s

Walter “Simtec” Simmons and Wylie Dixon, an explosive Sam & Dave-ish work, had a couple of soul strikes in the past due ’60s and early ’70s while Simtec & Wylie. Though thrilling live, the duo under no circumstances hit the graphs as large as Gene Chandler’s additional duo finding, Mel …

The death of Tanzanian guitarist/bandleader Mbaraka Mwinshehe, following a car accident in 1979, led to the increased loss of among the spearheads of East African dance music. Having set up his popularity as an associate of Morogoro Jazz, between 1964 and 1973, Mwinshehe continuing to create his influence sensed as …

British progressive rock-band Jody Grind issued two obscure albums combining hard rock, jazz, blues, and traditional influences with lineups emphasizing Hammond organ, guitar, and drums. Susceptible to lengthy instrumental riffing and rather ponderous, stern primary material, these were similar to various other extremely early organ-oriented U.K. intensifying rock acts. However …

Hard-singing soul/blues vocalist Johnny Williams’ biggest strike was “Sluggish Movement, Pt.1,” a 1972 TOP R&B solitary for Gamble & Huff’s Philadelphia International Information. He also documented edges for Epic and Chicago Spirit maker Carl Davis’ Dakar subsidiary, Bashie. Created Johnny Lee Williams on January 15, 1942, in Tyler, AL, he …

Adam “Pee Wee” Madison was an integral person in Muddy Waters’ music group from your mid-’60s before early ’70s, taking part in guitar of all of his singles and albums from 1964 through 1973. He began in Osceola, AR, before arriving at Chicago and, relating to Robert Gordon in his …

Carp is well known not really much because of its music since it is to be the starting pad for the profession of fledgling professional Gary Busey. Vocalist/drummer Busey shaped the group in the springtime of 1966 with fellow Oklahoma Condition University learners Ron Getman on electric guitar, John Crowder …

Beau — the stage name from the British singer/songwriter given birth to Christopher John Trevor Midgley — released several obscure albums for the Dandelion label in the past due 1960s and early 1970s. These demonstrated far more impact from American folk vocalist/songwriters from the middle-1960s — such as for example …

Originally formed in 1967 simply because Picadilly Line simply by Pole Edwards and Roger Hand, English psychedelic pop group Edwards Hand released three albums just before disbanding in the mid-’70s (1968’s The Huge Globe of Emily Little [mainly because Picadilly Line] featured the talents of Danny Thompson, Alan Hawkshaw, Jan …

Drummer Bob Grain began using professionally in 1966 with god, the father Byron Quartet. His area of expertise is setting up the type of funky, New Orleans-style defeat favored by a few of his companies, which include spirit vocalist Rufus Thomas, the oily gris-gris giver Dr. John, and explosive tempo …

The Bump emerged in the spring of 1969 out of Detroit’s psychedelic pop scene. The band’s founding people, bassist/vocalist George Runyan and keyboardist Paul Lupien, kept open up auditions to fill up the open electric guitar and drum positions, finally buying Alan Goldman and Jerome Charles Greenberg, respectively, who acquired …