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One of spirit music’s esteemed program guitarists, Tony Drake spent some time working with a number of the genre’s best artists. An associate of blues and R&B rings led by Johnnie Taylor, Ronnie Dyson, and T-Bone Walker in the 1960s, as well as the Checkmates from 1981 until 1985, he …

Greater than a 10 years after releasing his debut one, “Let’s Play House,” in the small Fresh York-based separate label Musicor, smooth-voiced Tony Drake (given birth to Samuel Garner) present stardom being a songwriter. While he seldom documented, in the 1970s his music seemed to possess lives of their very …

One of spirit music’s esteemed program guitarists, Tony Drake spent some time working with a number of the genre’s best artists. An associate of blues and R&B rings led by Johnnie Taylor, Ronnie Dyson, and T-Bone Walker in the 1960s, as well as the Checkmates from 1981 until 1985, he …