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New York-born musician Harvey Brooks has played in enough seminal recordings for just about any three professions, and, aside from being one of the most renowned bass players in well-known music and jazz during the last 4 decades from the 20th hundred years, was also folk-rock’s initial electric bass participant …

Best known while the drummer in Jimi Hendrix’s Music group of Gypsys, Friend Kilometers also had an extended solo profession that drew from rock and roll, blues, spirit, and funk in varying mixtures. Born George Kilometers in Omaha, NE, on Sept 5, 1947, he began playing the drums at age …

Michael Bloomfield was among America’s 1st great white blues guitarists, earning his status on the effectiveness of his function in the Paul Butterfield Blues Music group. His expressive, liquid single lines and prodigious technique graced a great many other tasks — especially Bob Dylan’s first electrical forays — and he …

The name Nick Gravenites is most likely familiar mainly to aficionados of ’60s Chicago blues and SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA blues-rock and psychedelia of the same era, however, not to some wider audience, because although Gravenites was a significant contributor towards the music during its heyday, he has unfortunately been …

Barry Goldberg was a normal fixture within the white blues firmament from the mid-’60s that appeared to stretch out from Chicago to NY. A keyboardist (body organ appeared to be his area of expertise), Barry was an in-demand program guy — he shows up with Michael Bloomfield on the Mitch …

When guitarist Mike Bloomfield remaining the Paul Butterfield Blues Music group in 1967, he wished to form a music group that combined blues, rock and roll, spirit, psychedelia, and jazz into something fresh. The ambitious concept didn’t arrive off, despite some interesting occasions; maybe it had been too ambitious to …