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Henderson was born in Palm Springs, California and spent his early life in Tyler, Texas, where he formed a band called the Sensores at age 16, and later joined Mouse and the Traps. In Dallas–Fort Worth during the early 1970s, he was lead guitarist for the blues/rock band Nitzinger before forming the Shuffle Kings and later a band that was ...
Leland Bruce Sklar (born May 28, 1947) is an American bassist and session musician.He rose to prominence as a member of James Taylor's backing band, which coalesced into a group in its own right, The Section, which supported so many of Asylum Records' artists that they became known as Asylum's de facto house band, [2] as those artists became iconic singer-songwriters of the 1970s.
Bernard Lee "Pretty" Purdie (born June 11, 1939) is an American drummer, and an influential R&B, soul and funk musician. [1] He is known for his precise time-keeping [2] and his signature use of triplets against a half-time backbeat: the Purdie shuffle. [3]
Vaudeville blues [12] Black Ace: 1905 1972 Texas Country blues [13] Scrapper Blackwell: 1903 1962 North Carolina Urban blues [14] Blind Blake: 1896 1934 Florida Piedmont blues [15] Lucille Bogan: 1897 1948 Mississippi Classic female blues [16] Ted Bogan: 1909 1990 South Carolina Country blues [17] Son Bonds: 1909 1947 Tennessee Country blues ...
Janis Joplin – (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) Born in Port Arthur, Texas, was an American singer-songwriter who first rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of the psychedelic-acid rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a solo artist with her own backing groups, The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full ...
[40] [41] This lineup released A Hard Core Package in 1977 and The Last of the British Blues in 1978. [42] [43] After releasing Bottom Line in 1979, an album recorded with various session musicians, [44] Mayall reunited with Mandel, who brought his backing band with him: bassist Angus Thomas, drummer Ruben Alvarez and vocalist Maggie Parker. [45]
Armand "Jump" Jackson (March 25, 1917 – January 31, 1985) [1] was an American blues and rhythm and blues drummer, bandleader, songwriter, record label owner, and booking agent. He is best known for creating the forceful "sock" rhythm found on the backbeat on many blues recordings made in Chicago , Illinois , United States, during late 1940s ...
"Farther Up the Road" has been called a "seminal Texas shuffle" [4] featuring "a style which Bland evolved as his own, with his light, melodic vocals riding over an ebullient shuffle". [5] According to music critic Dave Marsh , "Bland's deep vocal and Scott's arrangement, which swings as hard as it rocks, links Ray Charles ' big band R&B to ...