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Producer – Boz Scaggs; Executive Producer – Harry Duncan; Recorded by Michael Rodriguez and Elliot Scheiner; Assistant Engineers – Skip Curley and Bob Levy; Recorded at Meac Studio, Skywalker Sound (Marin County, CA) and Royal Recording Studio (Memphis, TN).
This increased Smith's national visibility. Unusually for a country music band, his band relied on tight arrangements with written "charts" for most of their music. "He was a good neighbor on radio and TV to so many people," said Tom Hanchett, historian at the Levine Museum of the New South. "He was somebody who came to you every day in your ...
Eight-bar blues progressions have more variations than the more rigidly defined twelve bar format. The move to the IV chord usually happens at bar 3 (as opposed to 5 in twelve bar); however, "the I chord moving to the V chord right away, in the second measure, is a characteristic of the eight-bar blues."
However, Lutcher was unhappy with Rupe's request that he only record slow blues, and at the behest of his sister Nellie also recorded (as "Joe Lutcher's Jump Band") for Capitol Records. Joe Lutcher's first hit was "Shuffle Woogie" on the Capitol label, which reached # 10 on the Billboard "Race Records" chart in March 1948. "Rockin' Boogie", on ...
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 ...
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion was an American three-piece rock band from New York City, formed in 1991. [2] The group consisted of Judah Bauer on guitar, backing vocals , harmonica and occasional lead vocals , Russell Simins on drums and Jon Spencer on vocals , guitar and theremin .
"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 ...
Jona Lewie joined his first group, the Johnston City Jazz Band, while still at school in 1963, and by 1968 had become a blues and boogie singer and piano player. In 1969, as a singer/songwriter, he contributed compositions and recordings for the compilation album I Asked for Water She Gave Me...