The Merced Blue Notes

The Merced Blue Notes’ career lasted in regards to a decade . 5, but it led to few recordings, though evidently it did source a lot of fun for live crowds in central California who wished to groove to fundamental, enthusiastic blues, R&B, spirit, and rock and roll & move. That’s the actual music group performed on its couple of uncommon singles, on a variety of brands, between 1961 and 1966. The group’s music is at the share R&B/blues-influenced rock and roll & roll design, on both vocal and instrumental materials, often putting body organ and bluesy acoustic guitar towards the fore, occasionally punctuated with sax and harmonica. Within their later on days they experienced funkier grooves, in the way that big functions such as for example Booker T. & the MG’s had been updating their audio, though they didn’t contain the originality to get a national target audience. The Merced Blue Records formed in senior high school in Merced, CA, in January 1957, and would go through numerous lineup adjustments during the period of their profession, the constant component being vocalist/songwriter/guitarist Kenny Craig. They in fact made their 1st contacts using the record market back again around 1958, if they auditioned for Niche Records, with a Sonny Bono within the control booth. Niche only wished to record their vocalist Roddy Jackson, nevertheless, Jackson producing three flop 45s for the label in the past due ’50s. Several obscure singles arrived within the Merced label in 1960, and they’d intermittently record on the following fifty percent dozen years for others, including Accent, Tri-Phi, Mammoth, as well as the Dream R&B subsidiary Galaxy. non-e from the singles captured on inside a big method, though their 1961 Accent 45 “Rufus” got enough airplay in Detroit to have them some concert and documenting work (the last mentioned for Harvey Fuqua’s Tri-Phi label) now there in 1962. With little achievement on record along with a sound which was obtaining obsolete by changing tendencies in rock and roll and spirit music, the lineup that documented for Galaxy within the mid-’60s split up in early 1966. Kenny Craig held the group choosing other music artists and ongoing playing live beneath the music group name for many even more years. The person in the Merced Blue Records with the best profile in following years was Bobby Hunt, who documented using the Seven Souls and in addition shaped the trio Head Western world with fellow Seven Souls music artists Henry Moore and Bob Welch, playing keyboards using the group on many travels while Welch is at Fleetwood Macintosh in the first ’70s.