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Harvey Brooks

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 …

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Jim Dickinson

A longtime staple from the Memphis music picture, maker Jim Dickinson helmed classes for successive generations of cult heroes spanning from Screamin’ Jay Hawkins to Big Celebrity to the Substitutes, additionally financing his keyboard skills to recordings from Ry Cooder, the Rolling Rocks, Aretha Franklin, among others. Dickinson started his …

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Raisins in the Sun

Raisins in sunlight can be an unlikely all-star collective of veteran players that came together in Tucson, AZ, to produce a self-titled roots rock and roll/pop debut that arrived in 2001 on Rounder Information. The group includes Chuck Prophet, referred to as a single designer and alumnus of vaunted roots-rockers …

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Jules Shear

Though he’s under no circumstances had the opportunity to record popular of his own, singer/songwriter Jules Shear has recorded several albums of highly accessible, hit-worthy materials, so when a testament to his abilities, he’s penned hits for others, including “THROUGH the night time” for Cyndi Lauper and “If She Knew …

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Chuck Prophet

Chuck Prophet strike the road right out of senior high school within the ’80s using the psychedelic root base music group Green on Crimson, and he never looked back again. Furthermore to working being a vocalist/songwriter, guitarist, bandleader, and collaborator with performers as varied as Wedding cake, Kim Carnes, Solomon …

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