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Engine City-based guitarist Jim McCarty initial surfaced as an associate of Mitch Ryder’s support music group the Detroit Tires, building his bow within the group’s 1966 debut LP Go for a ride. You start with 1968’s Expressway to Your Skull, he supported Buddy Kilometers, concurrently recording songs with Jimi Hendrix …

A slip guitarist and previous person in the Detroit blues-rock music group the Rockets, Dennis Robbins also performed using the country-songwriter supergroup Billy Hill; among the tracks he wrote had been Garth Brooks’ “Two of a sort, Workin’ on a complete Home” and Shenandoah’s “Chapel on Cumberland Street.” Robbins was …

b. 14 July 1899, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, d. 24 Dec 1940, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. A prolific composer and lyricist through the 30s, whose tracks have an appropriate, country sense about them. That is probably due to Hill spending a great deal of his early lifestyle going the American western world, …