The Jesters

The Jesters were an odd mid-’60s garage area band on several counts. Initial, they documented for Sun Information, among the few rock and roll groups who experienced material released by the business in the times when the famous label experienced become almost dormant. Second, they required a lot of their motivation from 1950s rock and roll & move, rockabilly, and blues, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley becoming prominent influences. Obviously, those had been prominent affects on Uk Invasion bands as well, however the Jesters sounded as though they might have already been larger fans of the initial 1950s performers than these were from the U.K. sets of the time. The Jesters had been created in Memphis in the summertime of 1965, sunlight connection being tempo guitarist Jerry Phillips and maker Knox Phillips, both of whom had been sons of Sunlight Records mind Sam Phillips. Though vocalist Tommy Minga published the majority of their unique material and do record some songs with the music group which were unissued at that time, he was eliminated by enough time they documented their sole Sunlight 45, “Cadillac Guy”/”My Babe,” with mentioned roots rock and roll renaissance guy Jim Dickinson on piano and vocals (though Dickinson by no means officially became a member of the Jesters). Following the record didn’t sell, the Jesters split up by the center of 1966, and so are mostly referred to as a footnote to sunlight Records tale and discography. A Compact disc compilation of their materials made an appearance in 2008, including their solitary, numerous outtakes, plus some tracks from the Escapades, a music group offering Tommy Minga.