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Trumpet participant Dave Woodhead was among England’s top program musicians, and an associate of Billy Bragg’s music group, when he discovered the kwela (pennywhistle) custom of South Africa. Recruiting guitarist Adam Keelan, bassist Chris Morgan, and drummer Mario Guanieri, Woodhead created kwela band, Favorably Testcard. Blending initial items by Woodhead …
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Marc Benno came up using guitar in a variety of rings in Austin, TX, in the past due ’60s, then moved to LA, where he installed with Leon Russell and shaped the duo Asylum Choir, which released a single record in 1968 and recorded another before breaking up. (The next …
Read More »Booker T. Jones
Booker T. Jones was among the architects from the Memphis spirit sound from the 1960s as the first choice of Booker T. & the MG’s, who have scored several hits independently aswell as portion as the Stax Information house music group. But Jones’ achievements don’t end there, so that as …
Read More »Booker T. & the MG’s
As the home band at Stax Information in Memphis, Tennessee, Booker T. & the MG’s might have been the solitary greatest element in the enduring value of this label’s spirit music, not forgetting Southern soul all together. Their small, impeccable grooves could possibly be heard on traditional strikes by Otis …
Read More »The MG’s
Minus Booker T. Jones in addition to Steve Cropper, the rest of the associates of Booker T. & the MG’s (drummer Al Jackson Jr. and bassist Donald “Duck” Dunn) documented one record for Stax because the MG’s, with substitutes Carson Whitsett on keyboards and Bobby Manuel on electric guitar.
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Singer/drummer/songwriter/manufacturer Maurice Light founded the ’70s supergroup Globe, Wind & Fireplace. Light, a former program drummer for renowned Chicago-based brands OKeh Information and Chess Information (Etta Adam, Fontella Bass, Billy Stewart, Ramsey Lewis, Sonny Stitt’s 1966 LP Spirit in the night time, the Radiants, amongst others), aspired to create a …
Read More »Booker T. & Priscilla
Booker T. and Priscilla was the duo of key pad participant Booker T. Jones (b.1944 12 11) of the group Booker T. as well as the MG’s and his wife, vocalist Priscilla Coolidge. They produced several albums collectively in the first ’70s.
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