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A delicate mixture of acoustic guitars and rock and roll sounds provided the backbone behind Lou Bennett, Sally Dastey, and Amy Saunders’ folk-pop vocal harmonies. Developing in 1991 after functioning as backup performers for Saunders’ sibling Richard Franklin’s music group Djaambi, their name originated from the Aboriginal term tiddas (indicating …

Lou Bennett began being a bop pianist, then switched to body organ and became a good participant in the later ’50s. With Jimmy Smith’s virtuostic approach as motivation, Bennett still left piano behind in 1956, and toured the East and Midwest along with his body organ trio from 1957 through …