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There’s very little potential for making jug band music with out a jug, although several have attempted. A washtub bass doesn’t harm, either. Actually, one of many concepts of the challenging, goofy, and spirited design of music can be to make a bass range out of a thing that basically …

Although he computes from the thematically conservative contemporary Christian pop genre, singer/songwriter and guitarist Derek Webb comes with an agitator’s soul and a flair for the controversial, approaches he uses in his music to force careful thought on quite crucial issues. Born on, may 27, 1974, in Memphis, TN, Webb …

Bespectacled and velvet-smooth in the vocal department, pianist Ivory Joe Hunter appeared an excessive amount of mild-mannered to be always a rock & roller. However when the rebellious music initial crashed the American awareness in the middle-’50s, there is Ivory Joe, deftly providing his blues ballad “Since I Met You …

A mainstream country-rock music group identical in execution (otherwise commercial success) towards the Eagles, the Amazing Tempo Aces were formed in Memphis in 1974 by bassist Jeff Davis and drummer Butch McDade, who had previous recorded and toured with the fantastic singer/songwriter Jesse Winchester. After impressive out on their very …

They appeared as if New Yorkers plus they sounded British, however the Scruffs hailed from your South — Memphis, Tennessee to be exact — and had a complete a quarter-hour of fame using the release of the lone 1977 LP Wanna Meet up with the Scruffs? Acquiring their musical cues …

A FRESH Orleans funk and soul ensemble who enjoyed moderate success within the middle-’70s, Chocolate Dairy documented for RCA from 1975 to 1983. Their roster included business lead vocalist Frank Richard, saxophonist Amandee Castenell, trumpeter Joe Foxx, keyboardist Robert Dabon, guitarist Mario Tio, and drummer Dwight Richards. Their finest songs …