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Within the large stable of blues talent that Crowley, LA, producer Jay Miller documented for the Nashville-based Excello label, no-one enjoyed even more mainstream success than Slim Harpo. Only a tone behind Lightnin’ Slim in regional popularity, Harpo performed both electric guitar and neck-rack harmonica in a far more down-home …

Bob “Slim” Dunlap epitomizes the journeyman musician who takes on for the fun of it, when his day time gig allows. Nevertheless, even informal listeners understand his name for just one reason: getting the “popular seat” task of being successful the Substitutes’ late, stressed guitarist Bob Stinson. But there’s even …

He wasn’t the frontman, the business lead singer, or the main element musician within the group that bore his name, but Paul Revere, who led Paul Revere & the Raiders from 1960 until his loss of life in 2014, was the theory guy who built the take action from yet …

Keyboard participant/guitarist (and sometime vocalist) Paul Martin Raymond was created in St. Albans, Hertfordshire, Britain in 1945. He produced his documenting debut because the organist/pianist within the pop/rock and roll quintet Plastic Cent, where he later on required over as vocalist following a departure of initial lead vocalist Brian Keith. …

Led by John Kay (blessed Joachim Krauledat, Apr 12, 1944), Steppenwolf’s blazing biker anthem “Blessed to Be Crazy” roared away from speakers all around the fiery summer months of 1968, John Kay’s intimidating rasp sounding a mesmerizing contact to arms towards the counterculture movement rapidly sprouting up nationwide. German immigrant …

Following his further solo album, Ram memory, in 1971, ex-Beatle Paul McCartney and his wife, Linda, created Wings, that was intended to be considered a full-fledged documenting and touring strap. Denny Laine, a previous guitarist for the Moody Blues, and drummer Denny Seiwell done the lineup and Wings released their …

Vocalist/songwriter and tempo guitarist Paul Kantner was a founding person in Jefferson Aircraft and Jefferson Starship. Kantner was the initial person contacted by vocalist Marty Balin about piecing together a folk-rock group within the mid-’60s within the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Bay Region. Jefferson Aircraft was one of the primary …

Shep & the Limelites’ name will forever end up being etched in rock and roll & roll background for saving the endearing “Daddy’s House,” a sensitive ballad about returning from battle that soared to number 2 over the pop graphs in-may 1961. Adam Sheppard’s career started using the Heartbeats, a …

Arguably the best & most influential Tex-Mex group ever, the Sir Douglas Quintet epitomized Texas’ reputation being a fertile roots music melting pot and established the career of Tex-Mex cult legend Doug Sahm. The Quintet blended nation, blues, jazz, R&B, Mexican conjunto/norteño music, Cajun dances, United kingdom Invasion rock and …

As an associate of Johnny Burnette’s Rock and roll ‘n’ Move Trio, guitarist Paul Burlison essentially pioneered the art of opinions. His solo around the traditional “Teach Kept a-Rollin'” may be the initial known deliberate exemplory case of six-string distortion on record, directing just how for multiple years of audio …