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Steven Truck Zandt was raised within the same south NJ shore scene simply because Bruce Springsteen and Southside Johnny Lyon, and was carefully connected with them. He was an associate of Springsteen’s music group Metal Mill in 1969-1970 as well as the Bruce Springsteen Music group in 1971. He toured …

Using a six-inch pompadour, brocaded shirts, rhinestone shades, along with a rhythmic, belligerent design of piano playing, Esquerita was the initial Little Richard, years before Mr. Penniman tutti-frutti’d his method to stardom. Functioning around the Dallas-New Orleans circuit in the first ’50s, Esquerita’s shot on the big time emerged when …

After moving towards the Norfolk, VA, area within the mid-’50s, young Gary Anderson began plying his vocal wares, first in church, afterwards with an area group called the Turks. When he had not been however 21, he was contacted by regional record manufacturer Frank Guida to become listed on his …

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 …

Detroit rockers the Frost were led by vocalist/guitarist Dick Wagner, a longtime staple from the southeast Michigan music picture who through the early ’60s led community favorites the Bossmen. Following the Bossmen disbanded — bassist Tag Farner later continued to create Grand Funk Railroad — Wagner founded the Frost with …

The Swingin’ Medallions’ one claim to fame, “Two times Shot (Of My Baby’s Like),” charted at number 17 on July 2, 1966, and produced them an institution within the South. It had been the band’s second launch for Smash Information; the very first, “I Wanna Become Your Man,” proceeded to …