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Jim Keltner is among several session music artists who achieved near super-stardom in the beginning of the 1970s, amid the explosion of saving work from the ex-members from the Beatles — along with Leon Russell, Klaus Voorman, Billy Preston, Jim Gordon, and Bobby Whitlock, to mention just a couple, his …

Peter Eldridge belongs in the celebrated custom of melodic poets, most famously represented by such disparate voices while Stevie Question, Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, Wayne Taylor, and Steely Dan — vocalist/songwriters who also write catchy, beautiful music with insightful lyrics that are both personal and common. These are a few …

Scritti Politti may be the principal automobile for Welsh singer/songwriter Green Gartside. Few statistics in pop music can state Gartside’s distinctive qualifications: an musician who started in London’s subcutaneous underground in the past due ’70s but eventually rose to the very best from the U.K. pop graphs, a significant devotee …

Best-known for his use Steely Dan as well as the Doobie Brothers, Jeff “Skunk” Baxter’s versatility and highly designed technique like a soloist produced him a hugely in-demand session guitarist from your ’70s on. Maybe because he’s by no means recorded a single recording, Baxter isn’t a significant home name, …

The duo Eye To Eye shaped in 1979 following keyboardist Julian Marshall (formerly of Marshall-Hain) noticed dancer/singer Deborah Berg sing at an improvisational dance performance in NORTH PARK. Weeks afterwards, Berg flew to London, where she and Marshall started writing jointly at his house. They quickly garnered an archive deal …

A little fiery for some in the brand new passionate camp through the early ’80s, China Problems was motivated by comparable sources but injected their pop tunes with occasional politics commentary and bluesy, reggae rhythms. Mainly a duo of vocalist/key pad participant Gary Daly and guitarist Eddie Lundon, the group …

Originally a film student, Marc Jordan dropped away from Canada’s Brock University in 1970 to pursue a music career. He used a music group for a short while, returned to college, but then still left for good to visit outside Canada. Upon obtaining back again to Toronto, Jordan was agreed …

Singer/songwriter, maker, and engineer Gordon Bahary makes ’70s- and ’80s-influenced adult modern pop. A indigenous of Long Isle, Bahary began composing and carrying out music at around age group 10, and by his teenagers was creating his personal synthesizer sequences and seems, garnering credits on such albums as Stevie Wonder’s …

After graduating from Berklee University of Music in 1993, Bryan Beller’s first big gig was with Ahmet and Dweezil Zappa’s band Z, that is where he first met Mike Keneally. In 1996, after two albums along with a tour, Keneally made a decision to keep Z for any solo profession …

Antsy McClain & the Truck Recreation area Troubadours are located in Nashville, TN, but they’re as definately not country’s mainstream as you may get. The band’s moniker is really a tip-off that everything isn’t specifically critical, but McClain is not a novelty action. The Troubadours certainly are a revolving cadre …