1919 Bull Moose
Jackson*
1922 George
„Harmonica“ Smith*
1950 Forrest Howard
McDonald*
1950 Peter
Frampton*
1951 Paul
Carrack*
1957 James Armstrong*
1957 James Armstrong*
1960 Andreas Angelow*
1966 Hank
Shizzoe*
1975 Walter
Vinson+
1990 Little
Joe Blue+
Happy Birthday
Bull Moose Jackson *22.04.1919
Benjamin Clarence „Bull Moose“ Jackson (* 22. April 1919 in Cleveland, Ohio[1]; † 31. Juli 1989 ebenda) war ein US-amerikanischer Tenorsaxophonist, Sänger und Bandleader des Swing, Blues und Rhythm and Blues.
Kindheit und Jugend
Jackson wurde 1919 in Cleveland geboren und lernte als Kind Geige zu spielen, da seine Eltern es so wollten. Seinen Beinamen „Bull Moose“ (Elchbulle) erhielt er, da viele Freunde sagten, es sehen aus wie ein Elch.[2] Als Jugendlicher erlernte Jackson Saxophon, das er offensichtlicher auch viel besser beherrschte als die Geige.
Anfänge
Jackson begann seine Musikerkarriere in einer Formation namens The Harlem Hotshots, als er noch die High School besuchte. 1943 wurde er von dem Bandleader Lucky Millinder [1] als Saxophonist eingestellt, dessen Musiker gaben ihm wegen seines Aussehens den Spitznamen „Bull Moose“. Als Vertretung für Wynonie Harris begann er in einer Show in Texas zu singen. Schließlich überzeugte ihn Millinder, im Juli 1945 einen Plattenvertrag als Solist bei dem King Records-Tochterlabel Queen Records abzuschließen, um Rhythm and Blues-Titel aufzunehmen.
Erfolge
Seinen ersten Hitparadenerfolg hatte Jackson im Juli 1948 mit I Know Who Threw the Whiskey, der sich auf Millinders Song Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well? bezog und die überhaupt erste Single im Katalog von Queen Records war. Als Queen Records nach nur 75 Singles wieder eingestellt wurde, wechselte er zum Mutterlabel King Records, das im März 1948 seinen dortigen ersten Hit All My Love Belongs To You präsentieren konnte. Im August 1947 nahm er seinen größten Erfolg auf, die Henry Glover-Komposition I Love You, Yes I Do, die Platz Eins der R&B-Charts erreichte und von dem eine Million Kopien verkauft wurden. Hier ist auch die von ihm gerade gegründete eigene Band, The Buffalo Bearcats, zu hören, mit der er in den nächsten fünf Jahren zahlreiche Platten in verschiedenen Musikrichtungen aufnahm; so auch romantische Crooner-Songs und Jump Blues-Titel. Obwohl als B-Seite versteckt, notierte 1948 I Want A Bowlegged Woman einen fünften Platz, sowie sein größter R&B-Chart Hit, I Can't Go On Without You, der sich nach seiner Veröffentlichung im Mai 1948 acht Wochen auf Platz Eins der R&B-Charts hielt. Im selben Jahr trat er mit Millinder auch in den Film Boarding House Blues auf. Ende der 1940er und Anfang der 1950er Jahre ging Jackson auf zahlreiche Tourneen in den USA. Ab 1951 spielten in seiner Band auch einige Jazzmusiker, wie der Bebop-Komponist und Arrangeur Tadd Dameron als Pianist, der Tenorsaxophonist Benny Golson, der spätere Jazz Messengers-Bassist Jymie Merritt sowie Johnny Coles, Frank Wess und Philly Joe Jones.
Spätere Jahre
Jackson nahm noch bis 1955 Platten auf; als sich der Musikgeschmack veränderte, zog er sich eine Weile aus dem Musikgeschäft zurück und arbeitete in einer Cateringfirma in Washington, D.C.. 1961 nahm er erneut erfolgreich seinen Hit I Love You, Yes I Do bei dem kleinen Label Seven Arts auf.
Anfang der 1980er Jahre trat Jackson mit der Pittsburgher R&B-Revivalband The Flashcats auf, die seine Titel spielten und spielte mit der Band 1985 das Album Moosemania ein. Danach ging Jackson noch auf Tourneen; er starb in seiner Heimatstadt Cleveland 1989 an Lungenkrebs.
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Benjamin Clarence "Bull Moose" Jackson (April 22, 1919 – July 31, 1989)[1] was an American blues and rhythm and blues singer and saxophonist, who was most successful in the late 1940s.
Career
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, United States,[2] he played violin as a child, but quickly became drawn to the saxophone and started his first band, The Harlem Hotshots, while he was still in high school. In 1943, he was recruited as a saxophonist by bandleader Lucky Millinder,[2] and the musicians in Millinder's band gave him the nickname "Bull Moose" for his appearance.[1] He began singing when required to stand in for Wynonie Harris at a show in Texas.
Millinder encouraged Jackson to sign a solo contract with Syd Nathan of King Records to play rhythm and blues. The first recorded in his own right was in 1946, with "I Know Who Threw the Whiskey", an answer song to Millinder's "Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well".[1] The following year, his recording of "I Love You, Yes I Do" reputedly became the first R&B single to sell a million copies, holding the #1 spot on the R&B chart for three weeks and crossing over to the pop chart, where it made #24.
He formed his own group, The Buffalo Bearcats, and over the next five years recorded in a wide variety of musical styles, including both romantic crooning and bawdy jump blues. Other big hits in 1948 included the double-sided hit "All My Love Belongs to You" / "I Want a Bowlegged Woman", and his biggest R&B chart hit, "I Can't Go on Without You", which stayed at # 1 on the R&B chart for eight weeks. He also made an appearance in the 1948 film, Boarding House Blues, with Millinder.[1]
In 1949, he covered "Why Don't You Haul Off and Love Me" a song that been successful for Wayne Raney as well as several country and western performers.[3]
Jackson toured throughout the late 1940s and early 1950s. Around 1951, his band included bebop composer and arranger Tadd Dameron on piano, and another jazz musician, Benny Golson, on saxophone.
Some of Jackson's later risqué material, including "Big Ten Inch Record" and "Nosey Joe" (written by Leiber and Stoller), caused a sensation during live performances, but were too suggestive for the radio and few records of them were sold. However, his band faithfully played Big Ten Inch Record at every show.
By the mid-50s, Jackson got tired of touring and retired from music to work for a catering firm in Washington DC, although he occasionally still performed at private parties. In 1961, he re-recorded, "I Love You, Yes I Do" with modernized high-fidelity and had a minor hit.
20 years later, The Flashcats, a blues band that performed in western Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, were regularly featuring a cover of Big Ten Inch Record in their setlist, undoubtedly inspired by rock group Aerosmith covering the song on their 1975 album Toys In The Attic. A local DJ reputedly told The Flashcats that he knew Bull Moose Jackson and frontman Carl Grefensette found him catering at Howard University. Grefensette convinced Jackson to perform with them and they quickly became a sensation in the western Pennsylvania area. Jackson then made The Flashcats his official backing band and began a career revival. He also recorded a comeback album Moosemania!.
During the 1980s, Jackson, now in his 60s, had an extremely successful run performing in the US and internationally. However, he fell ill with lung cancer in 1987 and retired from the touring circuit during the spring of 1988. An old girlfriend of his came back to care for him during his final illness and he passed away in Cleveland on July 31, 1989.
Career
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, United States,[2] he played violin as a child, but quickly became drawn to the saxophone and started his first band, The Harlem Hotshots, while he was still in high school. In 1943, he was recruited as a saxophonist by bandleader Lucky Millinder,[2] and the musicians in Millinder's band gave him the nickname "Bull Moose" for his appearance.[1] He began singing when required to stand in for Wynonie Harris at a show in Texas.
Millinder encouraged Jackson to sign a solo contract with Syd Nathan of King Records to play rhythm and blues. The first recorded in his own right was in 1946, with "I Know Who Threw the Whiskey", an answer song to Millinder's "Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well".[1] The following year, his recording of "I Love You, Yes I Do" reputedly became the first R&B single to sell a million copies, holding the #1 spot on the R&B chart for three weeks and crossing over to the pop chart, where it made #24.
He formed his own group, The Buffalo Bearcats, and over the next five years recorded in a wide variety of musical styles, including both romantic crooning and bawdy jump blues. Other big hits in 1948 included the double-sided hit "All My Love Belongs to You" / "I Want a Bowlegged Woman", and his biggest R&B chart hit, "I Can't Go on Without You", which stayed at # 1 on the R&B chart for eight weeks. He also made an appearance in the 1948 film, Boarding House Blues, with Millinder.[1]
In 1949, he covered "Why Don't You Haul Off and Love Me" a song that been successful for Wayne Raney as well as several country and western performers.[3]
Jackson toured throughout the late 1940s and early 1950s. Around 1951, his band included bebop composer and arranger Tadd Dameron on piano, and another jazz musician, Benny Golson, on saxophone.
Some of Jackson's later risqué material, including "Big Ten Inch Record" and "Nosey Joe" (written by Leiber and Stoller), caused a sensation during live performances, but were too suggestive for the radio and few records of them were sold. However, his band faithfully played Big Ten Inch Record at every show.
By the mid-50s, Jackson got tired of touring and retired from music to work for a catering firm in Washington DC, although he occasionally still performed at private parties. In 1961, he re-recorded, "I Love You, Yes I Do" with modernized high-fidelity and had a minor hit.
20 years later, The Flashcats, a blues band that performed in western Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, were regularly featuring a cover of Big Ten Inch Record in their setlist, undoubtedly inspired by rock group Aerosmith covering the song on their 1975 album Toys In The Attic. A local DJ reputedly told The Flashcats that he knew Bull Moose Jackson and frontman Carl Grefensette found him catering at Howard University. Grefensette convinced Jackson to perform with them and they quickly became a sensation in the western Pennsylvania area. Jackson then made The Flashcats his official backing band and began a career revival. He also recorded a comeback album Moosemania!.
During the 1980s, Jackson, now in his 60s, had an extremely successful run performing in the US and internationally. However, he fell ill with lung cancer in 1987 and retired from the touring circuit during the spring of 1988. An old girlfriend of his came back to care for him during his final illness and he passed away in Cleveland on July 31, 1989.
Bull Moose Jackson - Big Ten Inch
George „Harmonica“ Smith *22.04.1922
George „Harmonica“ Smith (eigentlich Allen George Smith, * 22. April 1924 in West Helena, Arkansas; † 2. Oktober 1983 in Los Angeles, Kalifornien) war ein US-amerikanischer Bluesharmonikaspieler.
Er wuchs in Cairo, Illinois, auf. Seine ersten Unterrichtsstunden auf der Mundharmonika erhielt er von seiner Mutter, einer Gitarristin. 1941 übersiedelte er nach Rock Island, wo er in einer Band spielte. Es gibt Hinweise, dass er einer der ersten Mundharmonikaspieler war, der sein Instrument elektrisch verstärkte. 1951 begann er mit seiner professionellen Musikkarriere. 1954 spielte er in Muddy Waters' Band als Nachfolger von Henry Strong und Vorgänger von James Cotton. 1966 spielte er wieder in Waters Band.
Nach seiner Entscheidung, Chicago zu verlassen, verbrachte er die meiste Zeit seines Erwachsenenlebens an der Westküste der Vereinigten Staaten. Dort wurde er Mitglied der Bluesband „Bacon Fat“, wo er den Harmonikaspieler Rod Piazza und den Gitarristen Doug Macleod förderte. Zu seinen Schützlingen, die später Karriere machten gehörte auch William Clarke. Im Anschluss daran trat er in Big Mama Thorntons Band ein. Mit ihr spielte er 1975 das Album Jail ein, gemeinsam mit einem anderen seiner Mundharmonikaschüler, William Clarke.
Auf den wenigen Soloalben, die er einspielte, ist seine Bewunderung für den Stil Little Walters spürbar.
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George "Harmonica" Smith (April 22, 1924 - October 2, 1983)[1] (born Allen George Smith) was an American electric blues harmonica player.[2]
Life and career
Born in West Helena, Arkansas, United States, but brought up in Cairo, Illinois, he began playing professionally in 1951.[3] He joined the Muddy Waters' band in 1954 and played intermittently with that group.[3] He spent most of his life living on the West Coast of the United States.[3]
Smith played with Bacon Fat a blues group before working with Big Mama Thornton in the 1970s.[3] He played harmonica on her live album Jail in 1975.[3]
George "Harmonica" Smith died in 1983, in Los Angeles, California at the age of 59.[3]
Harmonica Blues King - Dobre Records 1061
Life and career
Born in West Helena, Arkansas, United States, but brought up in Cairo, Illinois, he began playing professionally in 1951.[3] He joined the Muddy Waters' band in 1954 and played intermittently with that group.[3] He spent most of his life living on the West Coast of the United States.[3]
Smith played with Bacon Fat a blues group before working with Big Mama Thornton in the 1970s.[3] He played harmonica on her live album Jail in 1975.[3]
George "Harmonica" Smith died in 1983, in Los Angeles, California at the age of 59.[3]
Harmonica Blues King - Dobre Records 1061
George Harmonica Smith - juke - Leavin' Chicago (Live)
Paul Carrack *22.04.1951
Paul Carrack (* 22. April 1951 in Sheffield, England) ist ein britischer Songschreiber, Sänger, Keyboarder und Gitarrist und war Mitglied von Mike & the Mechanics.
Carrack gründete 1970 die Psychedelic Rock-Band Warm Dust. Zwei Jahre später trat er Ace bei und war Autor und Sänger ihres größten Hits How Long. Nachdem sich die Band 1977 auflöste, begann Carrack gemeinsam mit dem Countrymusiker Frankie Miller zu arbeiten. Zwischen 1980 und 1981 nahm Carrack sein erstes eigenes Album auf. Daneben war er als Studiomusiker an zwei Aufnahmen von Roxy Music beteiligt. Kurzfristig war er als Ersatzmann für Jools Holland Mitglied bei Squeeze.
1985 wurde Carrack von Mike Rutherford als Sänger für dessen Band Mike and the Mechanics engagiert, die im darauf folgenden Jahr ihren musikalischen Durchbruch unter anderem mit den Singles Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground) und All I Need Is A Miracle schaffte, welche sich in den Top Ten der Billboard Hot 100 platzieren konnten. Er wirkte daneben in Roger Waters Begleitband The Bleeding Heart Band mit, mit der er an Aufnahmen für den Soundtrack des Spielfilms Wenn der Wind weht teilnahm. 1987 spielte er auf Waters Soloalbum Radio KAOS sowie der folgenden Tournee. 1987 gelang Carrack als Solokünstler sein bislang größter Erfolg, die Single Don't Shed A Tear erreichte Platz 9 in den US-amerikanischen Charts. 1994 war er Co-Autor des Eagles-Titel Love Will Keep Us Alive, die Single stand 10 Wochen auf Platz 1 der US-amerikanischen Adult Contemporary Charts. 1996 konnte er zwei Singles in den britischen Top 40 platzieren.
Carrack arbeitete auch weiterhin als Studiomusiker. Er war als Keyboarder an Elton Johns Alben Made in England sowie The Big Picture beteiligt, so auch an dem Titel Something About The Way You Look Tonight, welcher auf der Rückseite der am meisten verkauften Single aller Zeiten, Candle In The Wind '97, Verwendung fand. 2006 erschien sein Best of-Album Greatest Hits - The Story So Far. 2013 begleitet Carrack Eric Clapton auf dessen Tournee.
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Paul Melvyn Carrack (born 22 April 1951) is an English singer, songwriter and musician who has recorded as both a solo artist and as a member of several popular bands. The BBC dubbed Carrack "The Man with the Golden Voice", and described him as "something of a national treasure".[1] William Pinfold of Record Collector remarked: "If vocal talent equalled financial success, Paul Carrack would be a bigger name than legends such as Phil Collins or Elton John."[2]
Carrack arose to prominence in the mid-1970s as the frontman and principal songwriter of Ace, and gained further recognition for his work as a solo artist and for his tenures as a member of Roxy Music, Squeeze and Roger Waters' backing group, The Bleeding Heart Band, intermittently handling lead vocals on Squeeze and Waters recordings. From the mid-1980s to the late 1990s, he enjoyed considerable success as the co-frontman (with Paul Young) and a songwriter for Mike + The Mechanics; following Young's death in 2000, Carrack served as the band's sole lead vocalist until his departure in 2004. He maintains an active solo career to the present day.
Carrack sang some of his affiliated bands' best-known hits, including Ace's "How Long?"; Squeeze's "Tempted"; and Mike + The Mechanics' "Silent Running", "The Living Years" and "Over My Shoulder". He also performed lead vocals on tracks from the Roger Waters albums Radio K.A.O.S. and The Wall – Live in Berlin, and achieved a major solo hit with "Don't Shed a Tear". Carrack's songs have been recorded by artists such as the Eagles, Diana Ross, Tom Jones, Michael McDonald and Jools Holland,[3] and he has served as a session and/or touring musician for the likes of Elton John, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, B.B. King, The Pretenders and The Smiths.
Career
1970s: Warm Dust, Ace and Roxy Music
Carrack's recording career began with the jazz rock band Warm Dust, who released three albums of original material between 1970 and 1972. Carrack was the keyboard player for the band, occasionally playing other instruments, with Les Walker as the lead vocalist.
After Warm Dust broke up, Carrack and Warm Dust bassist Terry "Tex" Comer helped to found the pub rock band Ace. Carrack both wrote and was vocalist on the band's debut single "How Long?" which was a 1975 hit in both UK and US. No further Ace recordings enjoyed the same level of popularity, however.
In 1977 Ace disbanded, and Carrack began working as a backing musician for Frankie Miller. Subsequently, he was a member of Roxy Music, playing keyboards on their 1979 reunion album Manifesto. Carrack would also play on the next two Roxy Music albums, but as a session musician, not a band member.
1980s: working solo and as a session musician
Shortly after leaving Roxy Music full-time, Carrack issued his first solo album, 1980's Nightbird. It was not a commercial success.
In 1981 Glenn Tilbrook recruited Carrack to join Squeeze as a replacement for long-time keyboardist Jools Holland. This new Squeeze line-up achieved international success with the album East Side Story, with Carrack as vocalist on the song "Tempted", their biggest US hit at the time. However, by 1982, Carrack had left the band and was replaced by keyboardist Don Snow.
Beginning in late 1981, Carrack joined up with Nick Lowe in a band that featured Lowe, Carrack, Martin Belmont on guitar, James Eller on bass and Bobby Irwin on drums. This band, referred to as Noise To Go, existed to back both Carrack on his solo recordings, and Lowe on his, similar to the arrangement Lowe had with Dave Edmunds and Rockpile in the late 1970s. Noise To Go also backed Lowe's wife Carlene Carter on her 1981 album Blue Nun.
After Carrack's 1982 solo album Suburban Voodoo, Eller left Noise To Go, and Nick Lowe took over bass duties within the group. The group was rechristened Nick Lowe and His Cowboy Outfit, and recorded two albums from 1983 to 1985, with Lowe as lead vocalist. The group also backed John Hiatt on side two of Hiatt's 1983 album Riding with the King.
During this era, Carrack also worked as a session musician for The Smiths and The Pretenders.
Nick Lowe and His Cowboy Outfit dissolved in 1985, and Carrack was contacted by Mike Rutherford (of Genesis) who asked him to join Rutherford's new side project, Mike + The Mechanics. Initially, Carrack and Paul Young were alternating lead vocalists for the group. He sang lead on their 1985 hit "Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground)".
In 1986 Carrack was a member of Roger Waters' newly formed backing band, The Bleeding Heart Band, recording tracks for the soundtrack of the film When the Wind Blows. The following year, Waters (still accompanied by Carrack and the Bleeding Hearts) released a solo album, Radio K.A.O.S. and toured the US and Europe. Carrack often filled in as an unofficial support act on the tour, usually playing "Tempted" to warm up the crowd.
Building on the success of Mike + The Mechanics, Carrack was able to reestablish his solo career in 1987 with the hit album One Good Reason, and the accompanying hit single "Don't Shed a Tear", which reached number nine on the Billboard Hot 100. From this point forward, Carrack consistently maintained both a solo career and a career in Mike + The Mechanics. This band recorded and toured irregularly due to Rutherford's commitments with Genesis.
In 1989 Mike + The Mechanics had a UK number two and US number one hit with "The Living Years", on which Carrack again sang lead. Also in 1989 Carrack recorded "Romance", a duet with Terri Nunn from the Los Angeles-based synth-pop band Berlin. The song appeared on the soundtrack to the movie Sing, starring Peter Dobson and Lorraine Bracco.
1990s: solo and collaborations
In the 1990s Carrack's solo career went into abeyance for a few years, although he maintained a career as a session musician. He also continued working with Mike + The Mechanics, who recorded throughout the decade. During this time Carrack played keyboards in the band and also began to co-compose, with Rutherford, some of the band's songs.
In 1990 Carrack rejoined Roger Waters for the ground-breaking live stage show of The Wall Live in Berlin in front of a crowd of 250,000. He sang "Hey You" and was one of the performers on "The Tide Is Turning" with Waters, Joni Mitchell, Cyndi Lauper, Bryan Adams and Van Morrison.
In 1993 Carrack joined with bassist Tony Levin, drummer Steve Ferrone, guitarist Phil Palmer and keyboardist/producer Rupert Hine to form a band known as "Spin 1ne 2wo". They released one album, a self-titled project, made up of classic rock covers including songs by Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Blind Faith, Steely Dan and Bob Dylan. He dueted with Beth Nielsen Chapman on "In the Time It Takes".
Also in 1993 Squeeze had Carrack return for their album Some Fantastic Place and a subsequent tour. With Carrack on vocals, the band re-recorded their hit "Tempted" for the soundtrack to the movie Reality Bites (1994). Carrack once again left Squeeze, however, after about a year.
Following his second stint with Squeeze, Carrack joined forces with Timothy B. Schmit and Don Felder of the Eagles for an ambitious, but ultimately unrealised, recording project. Schmit and Felder soon reunited with the rest of the Eagles and their Hell Freezes Over album, bringing with them one of the songs Carrack had co-written, "Love Will Keep Us Alive." It was recorded by the Eagles and won an ASCAP award as being the most-played song in America in 1995.[4] The same year, Mike + the Mechanics scored yet another top 20 hit, "Over My Shoulder".[5] It not only featured Carrack on lead vocals, but was the first Mechanics hit to be co-written by him.
In 1996, Carrack resumed his solo career with the album Blue Views.
2000 – present
Carrack maintains an active solo career, as well as his career as a session musician and songwriter, touring solo in 2002, mostly opening for bands such as Supertramp. He also served as the sole lead vocalist for Mike + The Mechanics following the death of Paul Young in 2000. In 2003 Carrack toured with Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band performing his hit songs including "How Long?", "Tempted" and "Living Years". In 2004 Carrack left the Mechanics following the release of Rewired, their only album with Carrack as sole lead vocalist. After a lull in Carrack's career, in 2007 the Eagles covered Carrack's "I Don't Want To Hear Anymore" on their long-awaited reunion album Long Road Out of Eden. The album went to number one in the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand and several other countries.
In May 2009 Carrack embarked on a tour of Germany, supported by Canadian artist Brendan Croskerry. In 2010, Carrack released the album A Different Hat, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, arranged by David Cullen. Two years later in 2012, Carrack returned with the soul-inspired album "Good Feeling".
In 2012 Carrack was the subject of an hour-long BBC Four television documentary Paul Carrack: The Man with the Golden Voice.[1]
In February 2013, Carrack helped to kick off Eric Clapton's 50-year anniversary tour, "Old Sock", celebrating the 50th year that Clapton had been a professional musician. Carrack sang lead vocals on "Tempted", "How Long", and closed the show with "High Time We Went".
He also in 2013, took part in the BBC 4 programme Please Please me: Remaking a classic to celebrate 50 years since The Beatles debut album where he recorded his own version of misery (Beatles song)
Session work
Carrack's distinctive voice and keyboard skills have kept him in demand as a session musician on many projects. Some of his credits include:
Piano on The Pretenders album Learning To Crawl (1983)
Keyboards on The Smiths' eponymous debut album, The Smiths (1984)
Keyboards and vocals on Roger Waters' Radio K.A.O.S. (1987) and subsequent tour
Organ on Elton John's Made in England (1995) and The Big Picture (1997)
Organ and vocals on B.B. King's Deuces Wild (1997)
keyboards on Simply Red's Blue [1998]
Touring with Ringo Starr's All-Starr Band (2003)
In 1997 Carrack played organ for Elton John on the single "Something About The Way You Look Tonight". It was coupled with "Candle in the Wind '97" on a double A-sided single, which set a new record for best selling single of all time.
Carrack arose to prominence in the mid-1970s as the frontman and principal songwriter of Ace, and gained further recognition for his work as a solo artist and for his tenures as a member of Roxy Music, Squeeze and Roger Waters' backing group, The Bleeding Heart Band, intermittently handling lead vocals on Squeeze and Waters recordings. From the mid-1980s to the late 1990s, he enjoyed considerable success as the co-frontman (with Paul Young) and a songwriter for Mike + The Mechanics; following Young's death in 2000, Carrack served as the band's sole lead vocalist until his departure in 2004. He maintains an active solo career to the present day.
Carrack sang some of his affiliated bands' best-known hits, including Ace's "How Long?"; Squeeze's "Tempted"; and Mike + The Mechanics' "Silent Running", "The Living Years" and "Over My Shoulder". He also performed lead vocals on tracks from the Roger Waters albums Radio K.A.O.S. and The Wall – Live in Berlin, and achieved a major solo hit with "Don't Shed a Tear". Carrack's songs have been recorded by artists such as the Eagles, Diana Ross, Tom Jones, Michael McDonald and Jools Holland,[3] and he has served as a session and/or touring musician for the likes of Elton John, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, B.B. King, The Pretenders and The Smiths.
Career
1970s: Warm Dust, Ace and Roxy Music
Carrack's recording career began with the jazz rock band Warm Dust, who released three albums of original material between 1970 and 1972. Carrack was the keyboard player for the band, occasionally playing other instruments, with Les Walker as the lead vocalist.
After Warm Dust broke up, Carrack and Warm Dust bassist Terry "Tex" Comer helped to found the pub rock band Ace. Carrack both wrote and was vocalist on the band's debut single "How Long?" which was a 1975 hit in both UK and US. No further Ace recordings enjoyed the same level of popularity, however.
In 1977 Ace disbanded, and Carrack began working as a backing musician for Frankie Miller. Subsequently, he was a member of Roxy Music, playing keyboards on their 1979 reunion album Manifesto. Carrack would also play on the next two Roxy Music albums, but as a session musician, not a band member.
1980s: working solo and as a session musician
Shortly after leaving Roxy Music full-time, Carrack issued his first solo album, 1980's Nightbird. It was not a commercial success.
In 1981 Glenn Tilbrook recruited Carrack to join Squeeze as a replacement for long-time keyboardist Jools Holland. This new Squeeze line-up achieved international success with the album East Side Story, with Carrack as vocalist on the song "Tempted", their biggest US hit at the time. However, by 1982, Carrack had left the band and was replaced by keyboardist Don Snow.
Beginning in late 1981, Carrack joined up with Nick Lowe in a band that featured Lowe, Carrack, Martin Belmont on guitar, James Eller on bass and Bobby Irwin on drums. This band, referred to as Noise To Go, existed to back both Carrack on his solo recordings, and Lowe on his, similar to the arrangement Lowe had with Dave Edmunds and Rockpile in the late 1970s. Noise To Go also backed Lowe's wife Carlene Carter on her 1981 album Blue Nun.
After Carrack's 1982 solo album Suburban Voodoo, Eller left Noise To Go, and Nick Lowe took over bass duties within the group. The group was rechristened Nick Lowe and His Cowboy Outfit, and recorded two albums from 1983 to 1985, with Lowe as lead vocalist. The group also backed John Hiatt on side two of Hiatt's 1983 album Riding with the King.
During this era, Carrack also worked as a session musician for The Smiths and The Pretenders.
Nick Lowe and His Cowboy Outfit dissolved in 1985, and Carrack was contacted by Mike Rutherford (of Genesis) who asked him to join Rutherford's new side project, Mike + The Mechanics. Initially, Carrack and Paul Young were alternating lead vocalists for the group. He sang lead on their 1985 hit "Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground)".
In 1986 Carrack was a member of Roger Waters' newly formed backing band, The Bleeding Heart Band, recording tracks for the soundtrack of the film When the Wind Blows. The following year, Waters (still accompanied by Carrack and the Bleeding Hearts) released a solo album, Radio K.A.O.S. and toured the US and Europe. Carrack often filled in as an unofficial support act on the tour, usually playing "Tempted" to warm up the crowd.
Building on the success of Mike + The Mechanics, Carrack was able to reestablish his solo career in 1987 with the hit album One Good Reason, and the accompanying hit single "Don't Shed a Tear", which reached number nine on the Billboard Hot 100. From this point forward, Carrack consistently maintained both a solo career and a career in Mike + The Mechanics. This band recorded and toured irregularly due to Rutherford's commitments with Genesis.
In 1989 Mike + The Mechanics had a UK number two and US number one hit with "The Living Years", on which Carrack again sang lead. Also in 1989 Carrack recorded "Romance", a duet with Terri Nunn from the Los Angeles-based synth-pop band Berlin. The song appeared on the soundtrack to the movie Sing, starring Peter Dobson and Lorraine Bracco.
1990s: solo and collaborations
In the 1990s Carrack's solo career went into abeyance for a few years, although he maintained a career as a session musician. He also continued working with Mike + The Mechanics, who recorded throughout the decade. During this time Carrack played keyboards in the band and also began to co-compose, with Rutherford, some of the band's songs.
In 1990 Carrack rejoined Roger Waters for the ground-breaking live stage show of The Wall Live in Berlin in front of a crowd of 250,000. He sang "Hey You" and was one of the performers on "The Tide Is Turning" with Waters, Joni Mitchell, Cyndi Lauper, Bryan Adams and Van Morrison.
In 1993 Carrack joined with bassist Tony Levin, drummer Steve Ferrone, guitarist Phil Palmer and keyboardist/producer Rupert Hine to form a band known as "Spin 1ne 2wo". They released one album, a self-titled project, made up of classic rock covers including songs by Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Blind Faith, Steely Dan and Bob Dylan. He dueted with Beth Nielsen Chapman on "In the Time It Takes".
Also in 1993 Squeeze had Carrack return for their album Some Fantastic Place and a subsequent tour. With Carrack on vocals, the band re-recorded their hit "Tempted" for the soundtrack to the movie Reality Bites (1994). Carrack once again left Squeeze, however, after about a year.
Following his second stint with Squeeze, Carrack joined forces with Timothy B. Schmit and Don Felder of the Eagles for an ambitious, but ultimately unrealised, recording project. Schmit and Felder soon reunited with the rest of the Eagles and their Hell Freezes Over album, bringing with them one of the songs Carrack had co-written, "Love Will Keep Us Alive." It was recorded by the Eagles and won an ASCAP award as being the most-played song in America in 1995.[4] The same year, Mike + the Mechanics scored yet another top 20 hit, "Over My Shoulder".[5] It not only featured Carrack on lead vocals, but was the first Mechanics hit to be co-written by him.
In 1996, Carrack resumed his solo career with the album Blue Views.
2000 – present
Carrack maintains an active solo career, as well as his career as a session musician and songwriter, touring solo in 2002, mostly opening for bands such as Supertramp. He also served as the sole lead vocalist for Mike + The Mechanics following the death of Paul Young in 2000. In 2003 Carrack toured with Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band performing his hit songs including "How Long?", "Tempted" and "Living Years". In 2004 Carrack left the Mechanics following the release of Rewired, their only album with Carrack as sole lead vocalist. After a lull in Carrack's career, in 2007 the Eagles covered Carrack's "I Don't Want To Hear Anymore" on their long-awaited reunion album Long Road Out of Eden. The album went to number one in the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand and several other countries.
In May 2009 Carrack embarked on a tour of Germany, supported by Canadian artist Brendan Croskerry. In 2010, Carrack released the album A Different Hat, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, arranged by David Cullen. Two years later in 2012, Carrack returned with the soul-inspired album "Good Feeling".
In 2012 Carrack was the subject of an hour-long BBC Four television documentary Paul Carrack: The Man with the Golden Voice.[1]
In February 2013, Carrack helped to kick off Eric Clapton's 50-year anniversary tour, "Old Sock", celebrating the 50th year that Clapton had been a professional musician. Carrack sang lead vocals on "Tempted", "How Long", and closed the show with "High Time We Went".
He also in 2013, took part in the BBC 4 programme Please Please me: Remaking a classic to celebrate 50 years since The Beatles debut album where he recorded his own version of misery (Beatles song)
Session work
Carrack's distinctive voice and keyboard skills have kept him in demand as a session musician on many projects. Some of his credits include:
Piano on The Pretenders album Learning To Crawl (1983)
Keyboards on The Smiths' eponymous debut album, The Smiths (1984)
Keyboards and vocals on Roger Waters' Radio K.A.O.S. (1987) and subsequent tour
Organ on Elton John's Made in England (1995) and The Big Picture (1997)
Organ and vocals on B.B. King's Deuces Wild (1997)
keyboards on Simply Red's Blue [1998]
Touring with Ringo Starr's All-Starr Band (2003)
In 1997 Carrack played organ for Elton John on the single "Something About The Way You Look Tonight". It was coupled with "Candle in the Wind '97" on a double A-sided single, which set a new record for best selling single of all time.
Eric Clapton and Paul Carrack How Long 2014 Live in Switzerland
Peter Frampton *22.04.1950
Peter Kenneth Frampton (* 22. April 1950 in Beckenham (London Borough of Bromley), Großbritannien) ist ein britischer Rockmusiker, der seine größten Erfolge in den 1970er Jahren hatte.
Im Alter von neun Jahren spielte Peter Frampton die Gitarre bei der Gruppe The Truebeats. Bekannt wurde der Gitarrist dann als Mitglied der Rockband The Herd. Er spielte mit Steve Marriott (von den Small Faces) bei Humble Pie und auf Alben von Harry Nilsson und George Harrison. Sein erstes Soloalbum war 1972 Wind of Change.
Framptons Durchbruch als Solist war das sechsfache Platin-Album Frampton Comes Alive (1976) mit den Hits Do You Feel Like We Do, Baby, I Love Your Way und Show Me the Way. Zum 25-jährigen Jubiläum des Erscheinens von Frampton Comes Alive wurde das Album sowohl auf Doppel-CD, SACD und auch auf DVD-Audio in der kompletten Konzertfassung mit allen damals gespielten Titeln herausgebracht. Nach seinem nächsten Album I’m in You hatte Frampton einen schweren Autounfall auf den Bahamas. Wieder auf den Beinen, spielte er neben den Bee Gees in der Verfilmung von Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band; der Film war ein aufsehenerregender Misserfolg.
In den 1980er Jahren kehrte Frampton zur Musik zurück, konnte jedoch nicht mehr an seine früheren Erfolge anknüpfen. 1987 tourte er mit David Bowie, dessen Schulfreund er war, und in den 1990er Jahren in Ringo Starrs All Star Band zusammen mit Gary Brooker (Procol Harum), Jack Bruce (Cream) und Simon Kirke (Free und Bad Company). Nachdem er 1997 bei Grand Funk Railroad gespielt hatte, erschien 1999 der Konzertmitschnitt Live in Detroit als DVD-Video und Audio-CD. Mit Bill Wyman und den Rhythm Kings tourte er ab 2000 immer wieder durch Europa.
Seine jüngeren Alben sind Now von 2003 und Fingerprints, das 2006 veröffentlicht wurde. Mit dem Song Do You Feel Like We Do trat Frampton 2006 zusammen mit Ringo Starr im bis dahin größten Rock-Pop-Konzert in Los Angeles vor 260000 Zuschauern auf. Am 27. April 2010 erschien sein aktuelles Album Thank You Mr. Churchill. Im Sommer 2010 ging Frampton – teilweise gemeinsam mit Yes – auf US-Tournee durch mehrere Städte.[1] Anfang 2011 startete Frampton eine Europa-Tour, die ihn mehrmals auch nach Deutschland führte.[2] 2013 trat er als Special Guest bei den Konzerten von Deep Purple auf.
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Peter Kenneth Frampton (born 22 April 1950) is an English-American rock musician, singer, songwriter, producer, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist. He was previously associated with the bands Humble Pie and The Herd. Frampton's international breakthrough album was his live release, Frampton Comes Alive!. The album sold more than six million copies in the United States alone and spawned several hits. Since then he has released several major albums.[2] He has also worked with David Bowie and both Matt Cameron and Mike McCready from Pearl Jam, among others. Frampton is best known for such hits as "Breaking All The Rules", "Show Me the Way", "Baby, I Love Your Way", "Do You Feel Like We Do", and "I'm in You", which remain staples on classic-rock radio. He has also appeared as himself in television shows such as The Simpsons and Family Guy. Frampton is known for his work as a guitar player and particularly with a Talkbox and his tenor voice.
Early life
Peter Frampton was born in Bromley, UK. He attended Bromley Technical High School,[3] at which his father, Owen Frampton, was a teacher and the head of the Art department.[4] He first became interested in music when he was seven years old. Upon discovering his grandmother's banjolele (a banjo-shaped ukulele) in the attic,[5] he taught himself to play, and later taught himself to play guitar and piano as well. At age eight he started taking classical music lessons.[6][7]
Early influences were Cliff Richard & the Shadows (featuring guitarist Hank Marvin) and American rockers Buddy Holly and Eddie Cochran, and then the Ventures, Jimi Hendrix, and The Beatles. His father introduced him to the recordings of Belgian gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt.[5][8]
Music career
Early bands
By the age of 12, Frampton played in a band called The Little Ravens. Both he and David Bowie, who is three years older, were pupils at Bromley Technical School. The Little Ravens played on the same bill at school as Bowie's band, George and the Dragons.[6] Peter and David would spend time together at lunch breaks, playing Buddy Holly songs.[6][9]
At the age of 14, Peter was playing with a band called The Trubeats followed by a band called The Preachers, produced and managed by Bill Wyman of The Rolling Stones.[6]
He became a successful child singer, and in 1966 he became a member of The Herd. He was the lead guitarist and singer, scoring several British pop hits. Frampton was named "The Face of 1968" by teen magazine Rave.[6][8][10]
In early 1969, when Frampton was 18 years old, he joined with Steve Marriott of The Small Faces to form Humble Pie.[6][10]
While playing with Humble Pie, Frampton also did session recording with other artists, including: Harry Nilsson, Jim Price, Jerry Lee Lewis, as well as on George Harrison's solo All Things Must Pass, in 1970, and John Entwistle's Whistle Rymes, in 1972.[10] During the Harrison session he was introduced to the "talk box" that was to become one of his trademark guitar effects.[11][12][13]
Solo career
After four studio albums and one live album with Humble Pie, Frampton left the band and went solo in 1971, just in time to see Rockin' The Fillmore rise up the US charts.[6] He remained with Dee Anthony, the same personal manager that Humble Pie had used.[14]
His own debut was 1972's Wind of Change, with guest artists Ringo Starr and Billy Preston.[8][10] This album was followed by Frampton's Camel in 1973, which featured Frampton working within a group project. In 1974, Frampton released Somethin's Happening. Frampton toured extensively to support his solo career, joined for three years by his former Herd mate Andy Bown on keyboards, Rick Wills on Bass, and American drummer John Siomos. In 1975, the Frampton album was released. The album went to No. 32 in the US charts, and is certified Gold by the RIAA.[6]
Peter Frampton had little commercial success with his early albums. This changed with Frampton's breakthrough best-selling live album, Frampton Comes Alive!, in 1976, from which "Baby, I Love Your Way", "Show Me the Way", and an edited version of "Do You Feel Like We Do", were hit singles. The latter two tracks also featured his use of the talk box guitar effect. The album was recorded in 1975, mainly at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, California, where Humble Pie had previously enjoyed a good following. Frampton had a new line-up, with Americans Bob Mayo on keyboards and rhythm guitar and Stanley Sheldon on bass. Wills had been sacked by Frampton at the end of 1974, and Bown had left on the eve of Frampton Comes Alive, to return to England and new fame with Status Quo. Frampton Comes Alive was released in early January, debuting on the charts on 14 February at number 191. The album was on the Billboard 200 for 97 weeks, of which 55 were in the top 40, of which 10 were at the top. The album beat, among others, Fleetwood Mac's Fleetwood Mac to become the top selling album of 1976, and it was also the 14th best seller of 1977. With sales of six million copies it became the biggest selling live album, although with others subsequently selling more it is now the fourth biggest. Frampton Comes Alive! has been certified as six times platinum.[7][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]
The success of Frampton Comes Alive! put him on the cover of Rolling Stone, in a famous shirtless photo by Francesco Scavullo.[23] Frampton later said he regrets the photo because it changed his image as a credible artist into a teen idol.[24]
In late 1976 he and manager Dee Anthony visited the White House at the invitation of Steven Ford, the president's son.[25]
Setbacks
Frampton starred, with the Bee Gees, in producer Robert Stigwood's poorly received film Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Frampton's career seemed to be falling as quickly as it had risen.[6][8]
His following album, I'm in You (1977) contained the hit title single and went platinum, but fell well short of expectations compared to Frampton Comes Alive!.[6]
Frampton suffered a near-fatal car accident in the Bahamas in 1978 that marked the end of his prolific period and the beginning of a long fallow period where he was less than his old self. He returned to the studio in 1979 to record the album Where I Should Be. Among those contributing to the album were past band members Stanley Sheldon (bass), Bob Mayo (keyboards/guitar/vocals), Chad Cromwell (drums), and John Siomos (drums/vocals).[6][7]
In 1980 his album Rise Up was released to promote his tour in Brazil, although he suffered another serious setback that year when all his guitars were thought destroyed in a cargo plane crash that killed three people. Among the instruments he lost was the treasured black Les Paul Custom (pictured on the cover of Frampton Comes Alive) given to him by Mark Mariana and first used on the night of the recording of the Humble Pie live album Performance, and which he had used all through his early solo career.[26] The guitar was recovered and returned to him in December 2011.[27] The album eventually turned into Breaking All the Rules, released the next year in 1981. These albums were the first he recorded almost completely live.[28] In 1982 Frampton tried unsuccessfully to split his ties with A&M Records; he, however, re-signed with the label in 2006 and released his Grammy Award-winning Fingerprints.[29]
Return
Although his albums generally met with little commercial success, Frampton continued to record throughout the 1980s. He did, however, achieve a brief, moderate comeback of sorts in 1986 with the release of his Premonition album, and the single "Lying," which became a big hit on the Mainstream Rock charts. Most notably, he also united with old friend David Bowie, and both worked together to make albums. Frampton played on Bowie's 1987 album Never Let Me Down and sang and played on the accompanying Glass Spider Tour.[7][8][28] Frampton would, in 2013, credit his participation in this tour for helping revive his career.[30]
Looking for that band experience again after touring with Bowie, Frampton kept referencing Steve Marriott, and at the beginning of 1991 rejoined his old Humble Pie mate for some shows (Marriott's last English gigs) at the Half Moon in Putney, London. The chemistry was still there for a while, as both Frampton and Marriott laid down some tracks in L.A. and prepared to do a "Frampton-Marriott" tour. However, Marriott abruptly returned to England in April and he died in a house fire less than 24 hours after his return. Broken up by Marriott's death, Frampton went off the road for a time, then reformed his old touring band with his old friends Mayo and John Regan (at least three songs, and possibly a fourth from the ended Marriott-Frampton partnership were subsequently recorded; two ending up on Frampton's "Shine On" compilation, a third on his subsequent solo album.
In the late 1990s he starred in an infomercial plugging the internationally successful eMedia Guitar Method, a piece of instructional software represented as an alternative to taking actual guitar lessons. He claimed in the infomercial that the software was the best way to learn guitar.[31]
In 1994 Frampton wrote and released the album Peter Frampton, the final version of which contained material recorded on Tascam cassette recorders. Originally released on the Relativity label, this record was re-released in 2000 by Legacy Records, with four bonus tracks and additional notes by Peter.
In 1995 Frampton released Frampton Comes Alive! II, which contained live versions of many of the songs from his 1980s and 1990s solo albums. Frampton Comes Alive! II was accompanied by a video release on DVD, recorded at The Fillmore Theatre on 15 June 1995. Although there was a large amount of marketing for the album, it did not sell well.[31] After Frampton Comes Alive! II, he recorded and toured with Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings and Ringo Starr's All-Starr Band,[7] where he and Jack Bruce performed a cover version of Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love".
In 2003, Frampton released the album Now, and embarked on a tour with Styx to support it. It was on this tour in 2004 he lost good friend and long time bandmate Bob Mayo. He also toured with The Elms, and even appeared in 2006 on the Fox Broadcasting variety show Celebrity Duets, paired with Chris Jericho of WWE fame. They were the first pair voted out.
On 12 September 2006 Frampton released an instrumental work titled Fingerprints. His band consisted of drummer Shawn Fichter, guitarist Audley Freed, bassist John Regan (Frampton's lifelong best friend,[5]), and keyboardist/guitarist Rob Arthur, and guest artists such as members of Pearl Jam, Hank Marvin, and his bassist on Frampton Comes Alive!, Stanley Sheldon – the only member of the backing band on that album still alive.
Recent events
On 11 February 2007 Fingerprints was awarded the 2007 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album. In February 2007, he also appeared on the Chicago based PBS television show Soundstage.
Frampton released his 14th studio album, Thank You Mr. Churchill, on 27 April 2010.[32] In summer 2010 he began touring North America with the English band Yes; the two acts had played stadium shows on a bill together in 1976. His 2010 band consisted of Rob Arthur (keyboards, guitar, backing vocals), John Regan (bass), Adam Lester (guitar), and Dan Wojciechowski (drums).
He embarked on a UK Tour in March 2011 in support of his new album, visiting Leamington Spa, Glasgow, Manchester, London and Bristol.
Frampton went on tour in 2011 with The Frampton Comes Alive 35th Anniversary Tour that showcased and followed exactly the songs on the play list for the original tour from 1976, recorded for the famous Frampton Comes Alive! The concerts each night started with the prerecorded thump of a microphone being turned on, familiar to many fans of the album, followed by the recorded voice of Jerry Pompili saying, "If there was ever a musician that was an honorary member of San Francisco society, Mr. Peter Frampton"...and then the crowd goes wild. He played the album song for song for 69 locations between 15 June 2011, and 22 October 2011, throughout the US
On 11 June 2011, Frampton performed a live set for "Guitar Center Sessions" on DirecTV. The episode included an interview with program host, Nic Harcourt.[33]
In 2013 he performed throughout North America as part of the "Frampton's Guitar Circus" tour which featured periodic guest performers including B.B. King, Robert Cray, Don Felder, Rick Derringer, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Steve Lukather, Sonny Landreth, David Hidalgo Mike McCready, Roger McGuinn and Vinnie Moore.[34][35] He will tour Europe beginning in October 2013 along with Deep Purple.[35]
On 9 February 2014, Frampton was one of several musicians to participate in The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to The Beatles tribute to The Beatles on the 50th anniversary of their first appearance on American television.
On 23 June 2014 Frampton released a new album entitled "Hummingbird in a Box."[36]
Media appearances
In 1974, Frampton appeared in the movie The Son of Dracula as a guitarist in The Count Downes
In 1978, Frampton portrayed the character Peter Buckley in an episode of Baa Baa Black Sheep titled "A Little Bit of England."
In 1978, Frampton played Billy Shears in the movie Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band starring along with the three brothers Gibb of the band the Bee Gees.[37] The movie was inspired by The Beatles album of the same name. Critics were hostile, and the film was a box-office failure.
In 1988, Frampton appeared in the video release of David Bowie's Glass Spider tour.
In 1996, Frampton appeared in an episode of The Simpsons entitled "Homerpalooza", in which he played "Do You Feel Like We Do". He also made a TV appearance in the Family Guy episode "Death Lives", in which Peter Griffin asks Death to bring Peter Frampton to play "Baby, I Love Your Way" to his wife.
In 1999, Frampton appeared in Blues Brothers 2000 as a member of a competing blues band.
Also in 2000, Frampton served as a technical advisor for Cameron Crowe's autobiographical film Almost Famous and also was the guitar instructor for Billy Crudup, who starred in the film as Russell Hammond, the guitarist for the fictitious band "Stillwater." Crudup is quoted as saying, "Who could ask for a better tutor than Peter Frampton?" As an inside joke, he also appears briefly in the film as "Reg," a road manager for Humble Pie, Frampton's real-life former band.[8]
On 20 December 2006, Frampton appeared on The Colbert Report. Stephen Colbert had a fake feud with The Decemberists to be decided by a guitar shred-down. When Colbert faked an injury, Colbert called on Father Christmas to supply a guitar hero, at which point Frampton appeared and won the shred-down.
Frampton has made an appearance in a television commercial as well. He played a supporting role in a GEICO commercial, where he performed a small portion of "Do You Feel Like We Do".
On 23 April 2010, Peter Frampton became the all-time celebrity champion of the trivia game called No Apparent Reason, with five correctly answered questions on the nationally syndicated Mark and Brian Radio Program originating from KLOS Los Angeles. However, on 5 May 2010, Frampton was reduced to second place after only two short weeks by Luke Perry's answering six questions correctly.
On 4 November 2010, Frampton appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show as one of her favourite musicians.
On 21 October 2011, Frampton was honoured at Music City's at Walk of Fame Park in Nashville, Tennessee.[38]
In 2012, Frampton appeared as himself in a Buick Verano commercial.
On 22 July 2012, Frampton appeared on a segment on CBS Sunday Morning.
Personal life
Frampton has been married three times and has three children. His first marriage was to Mary Lovett (1972–1976). In June 1978, Frampton was involved in a near fatal car accident in the Bahamas, suffering multiple broken bones, a concussion and muscle damage. Dealing with the pain of the accident contributed to a brief period of drug abuse.[6][7] He later married Barbara Gold (1983–93), with whom he had two children, Jade and Julian. Julian Frampton co-wrote and sang on Frampton's song "Road to the Sun" from Thank You Mr. Churchill. His third marriage was to Tina Elfers on 13 January 1996, with whom he had a daughter, actress Mia Frampton who starred as Becca Keeler on Make It or Break It, and a step-daughter by the name of Tiffany Wiest.[8] Frampton filed for divorce from Elfers in Los Angeles on 22 June 2011, citing irreconcilable differences.[39]
Frampton has lived in London and the USA, including Westchester County, New York, Los Angeles, and Nashville. He moved to Indian Hill, an eastern suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA in June 2000. This is the birthplace of his ex-wife Tina Elfers and the city in which they were married in 1996. They chose to live there to be closer to Tina's family.[8] Frampton cites the September 11 attacks as his reason for becoming a U.S. citizen.[40] He currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee.[41]
He is a strict vegetarian.
Early life
Peter Frampton was born in Bromley, UK. He attended Bromley Technical High School,[3] at which his father, Owen Frampton, was a teacher and the head of the Art department.[4] He first became interested in music when he was seven years old. Upon discovering his grandmother's banjolele (a banjo-shaped ukulele) in the attic,[5] he taught himself to play, and later taught himself to play guitar and piano as well. At age eight he started taking classical music lessons.[6][7]
Early influences were Cliff Richard & the Shadows (featuring guitarist Hank Marvin) and American rockers Buddy Holly and Eddie Cochran, and then the Ventures, Jimi Hendrix, and The Beatles. His father introduced him to the recordings of Belgian gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt.[5][8]
Music career
Early bands
By the age of 12, Frampton played in a band called The Little Ravens. Both he and David Bowie, who is three years older, were pupils at Bromley Technical School. The Little Ravens played on the same bill at school as Bowie's band, George and the Dragons.[6] Peter and David would spend time together at lunch breaks, playing Buddy Holly songs.[6][9]
At the age of 14, Peter was playing with a band called The Trubeats followed by a band called The Preachers, produced and managed by Bill Wyman of The Rolling Stones.[6]
He became a successful child singer, and in 1966 he became a member of The Herd. He was the lead guitarist and singer, scoring several British pop hits. Frampton was named "The Face of 1968" by teen magazine Rave.[6][8][10]
In early 1969, when Frampton was 18 years old, he joined with Steve Marriott of The Small Faces to form Humble Pie.[6][10]
While playing with Humble Pie, Frampton also did session recording with other artists, including: Harry Nilsson, Jim Price, Jerry Lee Lewis, as well as on George Harrison's solo All Things Must Pass, in 1970, and John Entwistle's Whistle Rymes, in 1972.[10] During the Harrison session he was introduced to the "talk box" that was to become one of his trademark guitar effects.[11][12][13]
Solo career
After four studio albums and one live album with Humble Pie, Frampton left the band and went solo in 1971, just in time to see Rockin' The Fillmore rise up the US charts.[6] He remained with Dee Anthony, the same personal manager that Humble Pie had used.[14]
His own debut was 1972's Wind of Change, with guest artists Ringo Starr and Billy Preston.[8][10] This album was followed by Frampton's Camel in 1973, which featured Frampton working within a group project. In 1974, Frampton released Somethin's Happening. Frampton toured extensively to support his solo career, joined for three years by his former Herd mate Andy Bown on keyboards, Rick Wills on Bass, and American drummer John Siomos. In 1975, the Frampton album was released. The album went to No. 32 in the US charts, and is certified Gold by the RIAA.[6]
Peter Frampton had little commercial success with his early albums. This changed with Frampton's breakthrough best-selling live album, Frampton Comes Alive!, in 1976, from which "Baby, I Love Your Way", "Show Me the Way", and an edited version of "Do You Feel Like We Do", were hit singles. The latter two tracks also featured his use of the talk box guitar effect. The album was recorded in 1975, mainly at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, California, where Humble Pie had previously enjoyed a good following. Frampton had a new line-up, with Americans Bob Mayo on keyboards and rhythm guitar and Stanley Sheldon on bass. Wills had been sacked by Frampton at the end of 1974, and Bown had left on the eve of Frampton Comes Alive, to return to England and new fame with Status Quo. Frampton Comes Alive was released in early January, debuting on the charts on 14 February at number 191. The album was on the Billboard 200 for 97 weeks, of which 55 were in the top 40, of which 10 were at the top. The album beat, among others, Fleetwood Mac's Fleetwood Mac to become the top selling album of 1976, and it was also the 14th best seller of 1977. With sales of six million copies it became the biggest selling live album, although with others subsequently selling more it is now the fourth biggest. Frampton Comes Alive! has been certified as six times platinum.[7][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]
The success of Frampton Comes Alive! put him on the cover of Rolling Stone, in a famous shirtless photo by Francesco Scavullo.[23] Frampton later said he regrets the photo because it changed his image as a credible artist into a teen idol.[24]
In late 1976 he and manager Dee Anthony visited the White House at the invitation of Steven Ford, the president's son.[25]
Setbacks
Frampton starred, with the Bee Gees, in producer Robert Stigwood's poorly received film Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Frampton's career seemed to be falling as quickly as it had risen.[6][8]
His following album, I'm in You (1977) contained the hit title single and went platinum, but fell well short of expectations compared to Frampton Comes Alive!.[6]
Frampton suffered a near-fatal car accident in the Bahamas in 1978 that marked the end of his prolific period and the beginning of a long fallow period where he was less than his old self. He returned to the studio in 1979 to record the album Where I Should Be. Among those contributing to the album were past band members Stanley Sheldon (bass), Bob Mayo (keyboards/guitar/vocals), Chad Cromwell (drums), and John Siomos (drums/vocals).[6][7]
In 1980 his album Rise Up was released to promote his tour in Brazil, although he suffered another serious setback that year when all his guitars were thought destroyed in a cargo plane crash that killed three people. Among the instruments he lost was the treasured black Les Paul Custom (pictured on the cover of Frampton Comes Alive) given to him by Mark Mariana and first used on the night of the recording of the Humble Pie live album Performance, and which he had used all through his early solo career.[26] The guitar was recovered and returned to him in December 2011.[27] The album eventually turned into Breaking All the Rules, released the next year in 1981. These albums were the first he recorded almost completely live.[28] In 1982 Frampton tried unsuccessfully to split his ties with A&M Records; he, however, re-signed with the label in 2006 and released his Grammy Award-winning Fingerprints.[29]
Return
Although his albums generally met with little commercial success, Frampton continued to record throughout the 1980s. He did, however, achieve a brief, moderate comeback of sorts in 1986 with the release of his Premonition album, and the single "Lying," which became a big hit on the Mainstream Rock charts. Most notably, he also united with old friend David Bowie, and both worked together to make albums. Frampton played on Bowie's 1987 album Never Let Me Down and sang and played on the accompanying Glass Spider Tour.[7][8][28] Frampton would, in 2013, credit his participation in this tour for helping revive his career.[30]
Looking for that band experience again after touring with Bowie, Frampton kept referencing Steve Marriott, and at the beginning of 1991 rejoined his old Humble Pie mate for some shows (Marriott's last English gigs) at the Half Moon in Putney, London. The chemistry was still there for a while, as both Frampton and Marriott laid down some tracks in L.A. and prepared to do a "Frampton-Marriott" tour. However, Marriott abruptly returned to England in April and he died in a house fire less than 24 hours after his return. Broken up by Marriott's death, Frampton went off the road for a time, then reformed his old touring band with his old friends Mayo and John Regan (at least three songs, and possibly a fourth from the ended Marriott-Frampton partnership were subsequently recorded; two ending up on Frampton's "Shine On" compilation, a third on his subsequent solo album.
In the late 1990s he starred in an infomercial plugging the internationally successful eMedia Guitar Method, a piece of instructional software represented as an alternative to taking actual guitar lessons. He claimed in the infomercial that the software was the best way to learn guitar.[31]
In 1994 Frampton wrote and released the album Peter Frampton, the final version of which contained material recorded on Tascam cassette recorders. Originally released on the Relativity label, this record was re-released in 2000 by Legacy Records, with four bonus tracks and additional notes by Peter.
In 1995 Frampton released Frampton Comes Alive! II, which contained live versions of many of the songs from his 1980s and 1990s solo albums. Frampton Comes Alive! II was accompanied by a video release on DVD, recorded at The Fillmore Theatre on 15 June 1995. Although there was a large amount of marketing for the album, it did not sell well.[31] After Frampton Comes Alive! II, he recorded and toured with Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings and Ringo Starr's All-Starr Band,[7] where he and Jack Bruce performed a cover version of Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love".
In 2003, Frampton released the album Now, and embarked on a tour with Styx to support it. It was on this tour in 2004 he lost good friend and long time bandmate Bob Mayo. He also toured with The Elms, and even appeared in 2006 on the Fox Broadcasting variety show Celebrity Duets, paired with Chris Jericho of WWE fame. They were the first pair voted out.
On 12 September 2006 Frampton released an instrumental work titled Fingerprints. His band consisted of drummer Shawn Fichter, guitarist Audley Freed, bassist John Regan (Frampton's lifelong best friend,[5]), and keyboardist/guitarist Rob Arthur, and guest artists such as members of Pearl Jam, Hank Marvin, and his bassist on Frampton Comes Alive!, Stanley Sheldon – the only member of the backing band on that album still alive.
Recent events
On 11 February 2007 Fingerprints was awarded the 2007 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album. In February 2007, he also appeared on the Chicago based PBS television show Soundstage.
Frampton released his 14th studio album, Thank You Mr. Churchill, on 27 April 2010.[32] In summer 2010 he began touring North America with the English band Yes; the two acts had played stadium shows on a bill together in 1976. His 2010 band consisted of Rob Arthur (keyboards, guitar, backing vocals), John Regan (bass), Adam Lester (guitar), and Dan Wojciechowski (drums).
He embarked on a UK Tour in March 2011 in support of his new album, visiting Leamington Spa, Glasgow, Manchester, London and Bristol.
Frampton went on tour in 2011 with The Frampton Comes Alive 35th Anniversary Tour that showcased and followed exactly the songs on the play list for the original tour from 1976, recorded for the famous Frampton Comes Alive! The concerts each night started with the prerecorded thump of a microphone being turned on, familiar to many fans of the album, followed by the recorded voice of Jerry Pompili saying, "If there was ever a musician that was an honorary member of San Francisco society, Mr. Peter Frampton"...and then the crowd goes wild. He played the album song for song for 69 locations between 15 June 2011, and 22 October 2011, throughout the US
On 11 June 2011, Frampton performed a live set for "Guitar Center Sessions" on DirecTV. The episode included an interview with program host, Nic Harcourt.[33]
In 2013 he performed throughout North America as part of the "Frampton's Guitar Circus" tour which featured periodic guest performers including B.B. King, Robert Cray, Don Felder, Rick Derringer, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Steve Lukather, Sonny Landreth, David Hidalgo Mike McCready, Roger McGuinn and Vinnie Moore.[34][35] He will tour Europe beginning in October 2013 along with Deep Purple.[35]
On 9 February 2014, Frampton was one of several musicians to participate in The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to The Beatles tribute to The Beatles on the 50th anniversary of their first appearance on American television.
On 23 June 2014 Frampton released a new album entitled "Hummingbird in a Box."[36]
Media appearances
In 1974, Frampton appeared in the movie The Son of Dracula as a guitarist in The Count Downes
In 1978, Frampton portrayed the character Peter Buckley in an episode of Baa Baa Black Sheep titled "A Little Bit of England."
In 1978, Frampton played Billy Shears in the movie Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band starring along with the three brothers Gibb of the band the Bee Gees.[37] The movie was inspired by The Beatles album of the same name. Critics were hostile, and the film was a box-office failure.
In 1988, Frampton appeared in the video release of David Bowie's Glass Spider tour.
In 1996, Frampton appeared in an episode of The Simpsons entitled "Homerpalooza", in which he played "Do You Feel Like We Do". He also made a TV appearance in the Family Guy episode "Death Lives", in which Peter Griffin asks Death to bring Peter Frampton to play "Baby, I Love Your Way" to his wife.
In 1999, Frampton appeared in Blues Brothers 2000 as a member of a competing blues band.
Also in 2000, Frampton served as a technical advisor for Cameron Crowe's autobiographical film Almost Famous and also was the guitar instructor for Billy Crudup, who starred in the film as Russell Hammond, the guitarist for the fictitious band "Stillwater." Crudup is quoted as saying, "Who could ask for a better tutor than Peter Frampton?" As an inside joke, he also appears briefly in the film as "Reg," a road manager for Humble Pie, Frampton's real-life former band.[8]
On 20 December 2006, Frampton appeared on The Colbert Report. Stephen Colbert had a fake feud with The Decemberists to be decided by a guitar shred-down. When Colbert faked an injury, Colbert called on Father Christmas to supply a guitar hero, at which point Frampton appeared and won the shred-down.
Frampton has made an appearance in a television commercial as well. He played a supporting role in a GEICO commercial, where he performed a small portion of "Do You Feel Like We Do".
On 23 April 2010, Peter Frampton became the all-time celebrity champion of the trivia game called No Apparent Reason, with five correctly answered questions on the nationally syndicated Mark and Brian Radio Program originating from KLOS Los Angeles. However, on 5 May 2010, Frampton was reduced to second place after only two short weeks by Luke Perry's answering six questions correctly.
On 4 November 2010, Frampton appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show as one of her favourite musicians.
On 21 October 2011, Frampton was honoured at Music City's at Walk of Fame Park in Nashville, Tennessee.[38]
In 2012, Frampton appeared as himself in a Buick Verano commercial.
On 22 July 2012, Frampton appeared on a segment on CBS Sunday Morning.
Personal life
Frampton has been married three times and has three children. His first marriage was to Mary Lovett (1972–1976). In June 1978, Frampton was involved in a near fatal car accident in the Bahamas, suffering multiple broken bones, a concussion and muscle damage. Dealing with the pain of the accident contributed to a brief period of drug abuse.[6][7] He later married Barbara Gold (1983–93), with whom he had two children, Jade and Julian. Julian Frampton co-wrote and sang on Frampton's song "Road to the Sun" from Thank You Mr. Churchill. His third marriage was to Tina Elfers on 13 January 1996, with whom he had a daughter, actress Mia Frampton who starred as Becca Keeler on Make It or Break It, and a step-daughter by the name of Tiffany Wiest.[8] Frampton filed for divorce from Elfers in Los Angeles on 22 June 2011, citing irreconcilable differences.[39]
Frampton has lived in London and the USA, including Westchester County, New York, Los Angeles, and Nashville. He moved to Indian Hill, an eastern suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA in June 2000. This is the birthplace of his ex-wife Tina Elfers and the city in which they were married in 1996. They chose to live there to be closer to Tina's family.[8] Frampton cites the September 11 attacks as his reason for becoming a U.S. citizen.[40] He currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee.[41]
He is a strict vegetarian.
Hank Shizzoe *22.04.1966
Thomas Erb
Hank Shizzoe (* 22. April 1966 als Thomas Erb in Grüt-Gossau ZH) ist ein Schweizer Sänger, Songwriter und Gitarrist. Er wurde von Rolling Stone als bester Roots-Rock-Songwriter und Gitarrenstilist bezeichnet, der nicht aus den USA stammt.
Hank Shizzoe verliess das heimatliche Zürcher Oberland auf den staubigen Strassen des Blues. Er liess sich an der Aare nieder, und seither schöpft er von dort aus unentwegt aus den Tiefen der amerikanischen Roots-Musik.
Wenn Hank Shizzoe in die Saiten greift, klingen 100 Jahre US-Roots-Erinnerungen mit. Der Mississippi-Blues und der schmatzende Sumpf von Louisiana. Die von Windhexen gestreichelten Weiten des Südens, die kernige Texas-Gitarre oder die Weltvergessenheit von Front-Porch-Poeten wie J.J. Cale.
Von Thomas Erb zu «Hank Shizzoe»
Eigentlich heisst der Virtuose mit den grollenden und flehenden Gitarrensounds Thomas Erb. Und das passt gar nicht so schlecht. Denn der Mann ist würdiger Erbe einer grossen Tradition. Und er war glücklicherweise genug «ungläubiger Thomas», dass er sich nicht vormachen liess, als Quelle solchen Klangs müsse man den USA entsprungen sein. Das Hank in seinem Alter Ego kommt von Country-Ikone Hank Williams. Und Shizzoe: Naja, da wohnen ein paar Seelen in seiner Brust.
Sechs Saiten, die die Welt bedeuten
Die öffentliche Verblüffung über seine ausserordentliche Fingerarbeit begleitet den Schweizer seit seinem ersten Album unter eigenem Namen. Das war 1994. Kurz darauf versah ihn das deutsche «Rolling Stone» mit der Etikette des glaubwürdigsten Roots-Musikers ohne amerikanischen Pass. Wenn Hank Shizzoe über die sechs Saiten spricht, die seine Welt bedeuten, stehen einem die Nackenhaare auf. Vor allem, wenn die Slide-Gitarre dazu ihren eigenen Kommentar abgibt.
Zusammenarbeit mit Stephan Eicher
Welcher Songschmied könnte widerstehen, wenn ein Mann von Hank Shizzoes Format seine Dienste anbietet. Stephan Eicher jedenfalls griff seinerzeit sofort zu und ging mit dem Slide-Meister ins Studio und auf Tournee. Nun revanchiert er sich auf die feine Art: Er produziert Shizzoes neues Album «Songsmith». Die beiden Männer verbindet unter anderem der Sinn für besondere Geschichten im Song. Wenn Hank Shizzoe von Songs erzählt, ist er genauso leidenschaftlich wie mit der Gitarre in der Hand.
Wenn Hank Shizzoe in die Saiten greift, klingen 100 Jahre US-Roots-Erinnerungen mit. Der Mississippi-Blues und der schmatzende Sumpf von Louisiana. Die von Windhexen gestreichelten Weiten des Südens, die kernige Texas-Gitarre oder die Weltvergessenheit von Front-Porch-Poeten wie J.J. Cale.
Von Thomas Erb zu «Hank Shizzoe»
Eigentlich heisst der Virtuose mit den grollenden und flehenden Gitarrensounds Thomas Erb. Und das passt gar nicht so schlecht. Denn der Mann ist würdiger Erbe einer grossen Tradition. Und er war glücklicherweise genug «ungläubiger Thomas», dass er sich nicht vormachen liess, als Quelle solchen Klangs müsse man den USA entsprungen sein. Das Hank in seinem Alter Ego kommt von Country-Ikone Hank Williams. Und Shizzoe: Naja, da wohnen ein paar Seelen in seiner Brust.
Sechs Saiten, die die Welt bedeuten
Die öffentliche Verblüffung über seine ausserordentliche Fingerarbeit begleitet den Schweizer seit seinem ersten Album unter eigenem Namen. Das war 1994. Kurz darauf versah ihn das deutsche «Rolling Stone» mit der Etikette des glaubwürdigsten Roots-Musikers ohne amerikanischen Pass. Wenn Hank Shizzoe über die sechs Saiten spricht, die seine Welt bedeuten, stehen einem die Nackenhaare auf. Vor allem, wenn die Slide-Gitarre dazu ihren eigenen Kommentar abgibt.
Zusammenarbeit mit Stephan Eicher
Welcher Songschmied könnte widerstehen, wenn ein Mann von Hank Shizzoes Format seine Dienste anbietet. Stephan Eicher jedenfalls griff seinerzeit sofort zu und ging mit dem Slide-Meister ins Studio und auf Tournee. Nun revanchiert er sich auf die feine Art: Er produziert Shizzoes neues Album «Songsmith». Die beiden Männer verbindet unter anderem der Sinn für besondere Geschichten im Song. Wenn Hank Shizzoe von Songs erzählt, ist er genauso leidenschaftlich wie mit der Gitarre in der Hand.
Forrest Howard McDonald *22.04.1950
Forrest Howard McDonald (born April 22, 1950), is an American blues rock musician who has written hundreds of songs and played on many records.
Forrest Howard McDonald was born in Austin, Texas. He started playing the guitar at age 14, in his early 20s he studies at the Dick Grove Conservatory of music in Studio City, CA and at the Howard Roberts GIT. He is the son of Constitutional scholar Forrest McDonald and has lived and performed all over America.
This versatile singer, songwriter, guitarist met and was influenced by Muddy Waters in 1964.
Originally from Austin, Texas, Forrest McDonald's career began over 46 years ago, and has spawned dozens of recordings and international acclaim. His 11th CD "Certified Blue" is released by World Talent Records.
He is a three time Just Plain Folk blues award winner, and was voted “Best Southern Blues Band” 1999-2001 by Real Blues Magazine.
‘Finger Lickin' Blues’ was voted the best southern blues release by RBM in 2001.
Forrest McDonald's band plants seeds of old Chicago and Texas traditions in fields of slow blues, jump, torch, boogie, jazz and good time swing.
Forrest has appeared or headlined many popular outdoor festivals such as The Atlanta Blues Festival, The Gasparilla Festival, Spring Fest, The River Place Arts Festival, Bay Fest, The Vallejo Jazz & Blues Fest, Sun Fest, The Carolina Blues & Seafood Festival, Bluesapalooza, The Montreaux Atlanta Festival, The Jacksonville Beach Annual Festival, The Melbourne Art Festival, The Hi-Fi Buys Amphitheater, the King Biscuit Blues Festival and many others.
The Certified Blue CD features his wife and Vocalist Kaylon McDonald. Kaylon started singing & playing the guitar when she was 10 years old. She won the Atlanta Female Entertainer of the year award in 1991.
Forrest McDonald Band Live 3 28 08
Andreas Angelow *22.04.1960
R.I.P.
Walter Vinson +22.04.1975
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Walter Vinson (* 2. Februar 1901 in Bolton, Mississippi; † 22. April 1975 in Chicago, Illinois; auch Walter Vincson oder Walter Vincent genannt) war ein US-amerikanischer Blues-Gitarrist und Sänger, der vor allem mit den Mississippi Sheiks bekannt wurde.
Bereits als Kind war Vinson Musiker und spielte bei Feiern und Tanszveranstaltungen. Meistens war er Teil eines Duos oder Trios, u. a. mit Charlie McCoy, Rubin Lacy oder Son Spand.
Vinsons fruchtbarste Zeit war seine langjährige Zusammenarbeit mit Lonnie Chatmon, mit dem er Ende der 1920er Jahre die Mississippi Sheiks bildete. Daneben machte er mit den Mississippi Hot Footers Aufnahmen und trat mit Chatmons Brüdern Bo und Harry auf.
Nach der Auflösung der Mississippi Sheiks 1933 spielte Vinson mit verschiedenen Partnern und landete schließlich in Chicago. Mitte der 1940er Jahre zog er sich aus der Musik zurück, bis er in den 1960er Jahren wiederentdeckt wurde.
Walter Vinson starb 1975 in Chicago.
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Walter Vinson (February 2, 1901 – April 22, 1975) was an American Memphis blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.[1] He was a member of the Mississippi Sheiks, worked with Bo Chatmon and his brothers, and co-wrote the blues standard, "Sitting on Top of the World".[1] Walter Vinson is variously erroneously known as Walter Vincson and Walter Vincent, and sometimes recorded as Walter Jacobs, thus using his mother's maiden name.
Biography
Vinson was born in Bolton, Mississippi, and grew up performing music in his locality. He rarely performed in his whole life on his own, most regularly being part of a duet, trio or group.[1]
He worked alongside Son Spand, Rubin Lacey and Charlie McCoy in the early to mid-1920s, before teaming up in 1928 with Lonnie Chatmon. They formed the Mississippi Sheiks.[1] The Sheiks and related groups under other names, such as Mississippi Mud Steppers, the Mississippi Hot Footers and Blacksnakes, recorded about a hundred sides in the first half of the 1930s, among them original compositions (probably by Vinson) such as "The World is Going Wrong" and "I've Got Blood in My Eyes For You" (1931) – both recorded by Bob Dylan – or the topical "Sales Tax" (1934).[2] Vinson claimed to have composed "Sitting on Top of the World" one morning, after playing at a white dance in Greenwood, Mississippi.[3]
After the Sheiks' split up in 1933, Vinson moved around the United States, recording with a variety of musicians, including Leroy Carter and Mary Butler.[1][4] He moved from Jackson, Mississippi to New Orleans and ultimately to Chicago, although by the mid-1940s his appearances in blues clubs had dwindled away. A lengthy break from music saw his re-appearance in 1960. He performed at music festivals and recorded further tracks over the next decade, before the onset of hardening of the arteries curtailed his public appearances.[1] Ill health forced his move into a Chicago nursing home in 1972.[5]
Vinson died in Chicago in 1975 at the age of 74.[1] He was interred at the Holy Sepulcher Cemetery in Hillside, Illinois in an unmarked grave.
In 2004, the Mississippi Sheiks were inducted in the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame, whilst "Sitting on Top of the World" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008.[6]
In 2009, a concert held by executive producer, Steve Salter, of the nonprofit organization Killer Blues raised monies to place a headstone on Vinson's grave. The event was a success, and a stone was placed in October 2009. The concert was held at the Howmet Playhouse Theater in Whitehall, Michigan. The concert featured blues musicians Thomas Esparza and Lonnie Blonde.
Biography
Vinson was born in Bolton, Mississippi, and grew up performing music in his locality. He rarely performed in his whole life on his own, most regularly being part of a duet, trio or group.[1]
He worked alongside Son Spand, Rubin Lacey and Charlie McCoy in the early to mid-1920s, before teaming up in 1928 with Lonnie Chatmon. They formed the Mississippi Sheiks.[1] The Sheiks and related groups under other names, such as Mississippi Mud Steppers, the Mississippi Hot Footers and Blacksnakes, recorded about a hundred sides in the first half of the 1930s, among them original compositions (probably by Vinson) such as "The World is Going Wrong" and "I've Got Blood in My Eyes For You" (1931) – both recorded by Bob Dylan – or the topical "Sales Tax" (1934).[2] Vinson claimed to have composed "Sitting on Top of the World" one morning, after playing at a white dance in Greenwood, Mississippi.[3]
After the Sheiks' split up in 1933, Vinson moved around the United States, recording with a variety of musicians, including Leroy Carter and Mary Butler.[1][4] He moved from Jackson, Mississippi to New Orleans and ultimately to Chicago, although by the mid-1940s his appearances in blues clubs had dwindled away. A lengthy break from music saw his re-appearance in 1960. He performed at music festivals and recorded further tracks over the next decade, before the onset of hardening of the arteries curtailed his public appearances.[1] Ill health forced his move into a Chicago nursing home in 1972.[5]
Vinson died in Chicago in 1975 at the age of 74.[1] He was interred at the Holy Sepulcher Cemetery in Hillside, Illinois in an unmarked grave.
In 2004, the Mississippi Sheiks were inducted in the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame, whilst "Sitting on Top of the World" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008.[6]
In 2009, a concert held by executive producer, Steve Salter, of the nonprofit organization Killer Blues raised monies to place a headstone on Vinson's grave. The event was a success, and a stone was placed in October 2009. The concert was held at the Howmet Playhouse Theater in Whitehall, Michigan. The concert featured blues musicians Thomas Esparza and Lonnie Blonde.
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