Tag Archives: 1960s – 2010s

To state that Mick Farren was a “jack port of all deals” is positioning it mildly. Getting started as an associate of English psych rockers the Deviants, Farren traversed an extended and winding profession that included such occupational descriptors as vocalist, journalist, novelist, non-fiction writer, and — some might state …

Southern rock device the Outlaws were shaped in Tampa, Florida, in 1972 by singers/guitarists Hughie Thomasson and Henry Paul, bassist Frank O’Keefe, and drummer Monte Yoho. Using the 1973 addition of guitarist Billy Jones, the lineup was finish, and after a season of intense touring the music group became the …

Categorised as “Motown’s best-kept secret,” the Originals scored just a small number of chart hits throughout their lengthy career, especially the effective 1969 ballad “Baby I’m for True,” yet their behind-the-scenes contributions mainly because songwriters and backing vocalists cement their put in place the label’s enduring legacy. The Originals had …

Most artists will be happy with an individual successful career. Not really Mickey Hart. A drummer using the almost mythic music group Pleased Deceased, Hart were able to get away the stasis that legends frequently devolve into by carrying out a path from the heart which led him to globe …

Ray organized his octet in 1963. He was regarded a virtuoso pianist, music arranger, and composer, whose music group enjoyed tremendous sketching power and was one of the better retailers in the ’60s and ’70s.

Although he didn’t record under his own name until 1998, Olu Dara enjoyed a reputation among the jazz avant-garde’s leading trumpeters in the mid-’70s on. Early-’80s information and performances using the David Murray Octet as well as the Henry Threadgill Sextet uncovered Dara to be always a daring, roots-bound soloist, …

Vocalist/bassist Michael Henderson offers enjoyed successful professions as a new player and performer. He shifted from Yazoo Town, Mississippi to Detroit in the first ’60s, and was a program player. Like a 13-year-old, Henderson performed bass with the great Four, Detroit Emeralds, Billy Preston, and additional Motown works in 1964 …

In lots of ways, Michael Martin Murphey gets the career that Michael Nesmith from the Monkees — with whom Murphey performed early in both of their careers — may have had if he previously never been selected for the NBC series. A guitarist/songwriter, Murphey led the country-rock group the Lewis …

Because the mid-’60s, Norma Waterson, along with brother Mike, sister Lal among others, have performed jointly as the Watersons to create a few of the most beautiful information in British traditional music. While executing one night time with her family members at McCabe’s in Santa Monica, California, membership booker and …

Redbone was a Los Angeles-based music group led by Local American Pat and Lolly Vegas, both business lead singers who have had previously worked under their own titles, showing up in the 1965 film It’s a Bikini Globe ahead of forming Redbone, an all-Native music group, in the encouragement of …