1924 Wynona Carr*
1947 Mike Harvey*
1950
Little Howlin' Wolf (James R. Pobiega)*
1960 Gary
Hoey*
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Mike Harvey *23.08.1947
Mike Harvey is a seasoned music industry veteran, having started playing the drums and touring as a young teenager in the early 60s. Music has taken Mike to countless cities throughout the past five decades, and has most recently brought him back to Southern California to partner with son-in-law, singer-songwriter/keyboard player Tim Reid, Jr. He owns and operates a new artist friendly recording facility in downtown Santa Ana.
From 1972 to 1981, Harvey was a studio musician and producer in Los Angeles, with the following notable credits:
**Studio affiliations with, CBS, Warner Brothers, Scotti Brothers and the Welk Music Group, as well as many of the top independent studios in Los Angeles.
**Played with “Blues Image” (Ride Captain Ride), “Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds” (Don’t Pull Your Love Out On Me Baby, Baby, Baby Falling In Love), and worked as a contract player with Edwin Star (War, Eye to Eye Contact) “Sam the Sham and the Pharos” (Woolly Bully, Little Red Ridinghood), “the Fraternity of Man” (Don’t Bogart that Joint My Friend, from the movie Easy Rider) and more.
**played drums on the Movie Soundtrack to “Cruising” with Al Pacino
Prior to moving back west, Mike Harvey owned and operated Weatherby Lake Studios in Kansas City, MO for over two decades, and in the '90's Mike also owned and operated the Kansas City music mecca, The Tuba, where countless legends in Blues, Jazz, and Rock N' Roll enjoyed sharing music with the Kansas City enthusiasts, and Mike himself was known to share the stage with a great many heavy hitters.
Alligator Shoe ~ Jack Roberts Harvey Band
Devil on a Dirt Road ~ Jack Roberts Harvey Band
Boom Boom Boom - Jack Roberts Harvey Band and Friends
Wynona Carr *23.08.1924
http://www.concordmusicgroup.com/artists/wynona-carr/
Wynona Carr (August 23, 1924 – May 12, 1976) was an African-American gospel, R&B and rock and roll singer-songwriter, who recorded as Sister Wynona Carr when performing gospel material.
Biography
Wynona Merceris Carr was born in Cleveland, Ohio, where she started out as a gospel singer, forming her own five-piece group The Carr Singers around 1945 and touring the Cleveland/Detroit area. Being tipped by the Pilgrim Travelers, who shared a bill with Carr in the late 1940s, Art Rupe signed her to his Specialty label, giving Carr her new stage name "Sister" Wynona Carr (modelled after pioneering gospel singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe) and cutting some twenty sides with her from 1949 to 1954, including a couple of duets with Specialty's biggest gospel star at the time, Brother Joe May.
Not having too much success on the charts (except for "The Ball Game" [1952], which became one of Specialty's best selling gospel records and most recently featured in the movie 42), Carr grew increasingly unhappy with the straight gospel direction of her career and pleaded with Rupe to let her record "pops, jumps, ballads, and semi-blues". Rupe relented and from 1955 to 1959 Carr recorded two dozen rock & roll and R&B sides for Specialty, which, like her gospel songs, she mostly wrote herself. Despite scoring an R&B hit with "Should I Ever Love Again?" in 1957, overall the change from spiritual to secular music didn't help Carr much in terms of sales or recognition. Unfortunately she also contracted tuberculosis around this time, which kept her from doing the necessary promotional work and touring for two years, effectively ending her tenure with Specialty in the summer of 1959.
In 1961 Carr signed with Frank Sinatra's Reprise Records and released an unsuccessful pop album. She moved back to Cleveland, sinking into obscurity and suffering from declining health and depression; she died there in 1976.
Style and appreciation
Carr's contralto vocals have a sensual, husky quality quite unusual (or even inappropriate) for gospel singers in her day, which made her eventual switch to R&B and rock & roll seem a logical choice in retrospect. The same goes for her idiosyncratic use of metaphors and themes in her gospel songs: baseball ("The Ball Game"), boxing ("15 Rounds For Jesus") and a popular TV show ("Dragnet For Jesus"). This penchant for novelty-like songs also shows in Carr's later R&B repertoire, for instance "Ding Dong Daddy", "Nursery Rhyme Rock" and "Boppity Bop (Boogity Boog)".
Carr's gospel recordings are very much influenced by Sister Rosetta Tharpe, incorporating blues and jazz stylings and already touching on R&B with her take on Roy Brown's / Wynonie Harris' "Good Rockin' Tonight", entitled "I Heard The News (Jesus Is Coming Again)". Her early R&B material (for which she is probably best remembered now) was often uptempo, rock & roll-styled and similar in sound to fellow R&B/rock & roll artists on the Specialty roster like Little Richard, Lloyd Price and Larry Williams, with a strong New Orleans-style backbeat and a rich, warm production. Her final Specialty sessions, conducted by Sonny Bono in 1959, cut down on the rock & roll influences.
Both Carr's gospel and R&B recordings went largely unappreciated during the time they were released, but found a new audience when Specialty Records released two CDs, covering Carr's entire output on the label and adding previously unreleased material, such as a recording with Rev. C.L. Franklin (father of Aretha Franklin) and his New Bethel Baptist Church Choir in Detroit.
Biography
Wynona Merceris Carr was born in Cleveland, Ohio, where she started out as a gospel singer, forming her own five-piece group The Carr Singers around 1945 and touring the Cleveland/Detroit area. Being tipped by the Pilgrim Travelers, who shared a bill with Carr in the late 1940s, Art Rupe signed her to his Specialty label, giving Carr her new stage name "Sister" Wynona Carr (modelled after pioneering gospel singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe) and cutting some twenty sides with her from 1949 to 1954, including a couple of duets with Specialty's biggest gospel star at the time, Brother Joe May.
Not having too much success on the charts (except for "The Ball Game" [1952], which became one of Specialty's best selling gospel records and most recently featured in the movie 42), Carr grew increasingly unhappy with the straight gospel direction of her career and pleaded with Rupe to let her record "pops, jumps, ballads, and semi-blues". Rupe relented and from 1955 to 1959 Carr recorded two dozen rock & roll and R&B sides for Specialty, which, like her gospel songs, she mostly wrote herself. Despite scoring an R&B hit with "Should I Ever Love Again?" in 1957, overall the change from spiritual to secular music didn't help Carr much in terms of sales or recognition. Unfortunately she also contracted tuberculosis around this time, which kept her from doing the necessary promotional work and touring for two years, effectively ending her tenure with Specialty in the summer of 1959.
In 1961 Carr signed with Frank Sinatra's Reprise Records and released an unsuccessful pop album. She moved back to Cleveland, sinking into obscurity and suffering from declining health and depression; she died there in 1976.
Style and appreciation
Carr's contralto vocals have a sensual, husky quality quite unusual (or even inappropriate) for gospel singers in her day, which made her eventual switch to R&B and rock & roll seem a logical choice in retrospect. The same goes for her idiosyncratic use of metaphors and themes in her gospel songs: baseball ("The Ball Game"), boxing ("15 Rounds For Jesus") and a popular TV show ("Dragnet For Jesus"). This penchant for novelty-like songs also shows in Carr's later R&B repertoire, for instance "Ding Dong Daddy", "Nursery Rhyme Rock" and "Boppity Bop (Boogity Boog)".
Carr's gospel recordings are very much influenced by Sister Rosetta Tharpe, incorporating blues and jazz stylings and already touching on R&B with her take on Roy Brown's / Wynonie Harris' "Good Rockin' Tonight", entitled "I Heard The News (Jesus Is Coming Again)". Her early R&B material (for which she is probably best remembered now) was often uptempo, rock & roll-styled and similar in sound to fellow R&B/rock & roll artists on the Specialty roster like Little Richard, Lloyd Price and Larry Williams, with a strong New Orleans-style backbeat and a rich, warm production. Her final Specialty sessions, conducted by Sonny Bono in 1959, cut down on the rock & roll influences.
Both Carr's gospel and R&B recordings went largely unappreciated during the time they were released, but found a new audience when Specialty Records released two CDs, covering Carr's entire output on the label and adding previously unreleased material, such as a recording with Rev. C.L. Franklin (father of Aretha Franklin) and his New Bethel Baptist Church Choir in Detroit.
Wynona Carr - Please Mr Jailer
Gary Hoey *23.08.1960
Bodenständiger Blues-Rock von Gary Hoey
Im besten Sinne zeitlos kann man auch die Musik von Gary Hoey bezeichnen, der auf "Dust & Bones" bodenständigen Blues-Rock vorstellt. Entdeckt wurde der US-Amerikaner 1987 von Black Sabbath-Legende Ozzy Osbourne, der ihn zum Vorspiel nach L.A. einlud. Dort gründete Hoey alsbald eine eigene Hard-Rock-Band, landete dann aber, nach Surfsound und verrockten Weihnachtsliedern, vor einigen Jahren beim Blues. Den spielt er kraftvoll, virtuos und mit viel Verve in der Tradition von Kollegen wie Johnny Winter, Robin Trower oder dem musikalisch ähnlich gelagerten Joe Bonamassa.
Das klingt zwar weder innovativ, noch zukunftsweisend, aber dennoch zeitgemäß - weil es Gary Hoey gelingt, die Erfahrungen seiner vorherigen, in den USA sehr erfolgreichen Platten mit einfließen zu lassen. Und immerhin gilt Hoey als einer der hundert besten Gitarristen der Welt. Und das kann man auf seinem neuen Album "Dust & Bones" heraushören.
Gary Hoey (born August 23, 1960) is a rock musician.
Early life and early career
At fourteen, Hoey often lingered outside Boston's renowned Berklee College of Music, making friends and offering to pay for lessons. To devote his time to music, he dropped out of high school and began playing Boston's local clubs and teaching guitar to other young players. He auditioned for Ozzy Osbourne in 1988, when Osbourne was searching for a replacement for Jake E. Lee, but the job went to Zakk Wylde.
In 1990, he teamed with singer Joel Ellis, bassist Rex Tennyson, and drummer Frankie Banali to form Heavy Bones. The band released their debut album in 1992, but broke up shortly afterwards.[1]
In 1993, he recorded the successful Animal Instinct album, which included a cover of the Focus hit "Hocus Pocus". Not only did the hit rocket into the Billboard Top 5, outpacing all other singles as the most frequently played rock song of the year, but the album went on to reach classic rock notoriety. The successful Endless Summer II soundtrack soon followed. He went on to record around twelve instrumental albums, all electric guitar oriented. His 1996 release, Bug Alley, displayed added vocal ability that he has expanded on more recent albums. He continues to tour extensively.
Later career
Gary Hoey's most recent album, “Dust & Bones” was released in 2016. He has recorded 20 albums and had five top-20 Billboard hits, and has been called one of the top 100 guitarists of all time.
As writer, producer, and guitar player, Hoey's clients have included Disney, ESPN, and No Fear, and he has performed the National Anthem for the New England Patriots, San Diego Padres, and the Boston Red Sox. Hoey has been featured on VH1 Classic’s documentary, “Aftermath,” and recently guest starred alongside Michael Anthony, Ace Frehley, and Dave Mason, among others, at the 2010 Rock N Roll Fantasy Camp in Los Angeles, which debuts as a special series on VH1 Classic beginning this spring.
His popular “Ho Ho Hoey” series of Christmas CDs and on-air station visits during the holiday season have become an annual staple at hundreds of radio stations nationwide. Moreover, his live annual interpretation, “Ho Ho Hoey’s Rockin’ Holiday Show,” gains new fans each year. Hallmark’s musical greeting cards feature two of Gary’s “Ho Ho Hoey” classics.
In addition to touring as a headline act, Hoey has toured and traded licks with Brian May of Queen, Ted Nugent, Foreigner, Joe Satriani, The Doobie Brothers, Kenny Wayne Shepard, Eric Johnson, Steve Vai, Peter Frampton, Rick Derringer, Deep Purple, and Lita Ford. Hoey supported Jeff Beck on the US leg of his Spring 2010 tour. Hoey played on and co-wrote a few songs on Lita Ford's album Living Like a Runaway album in 2012, as well as toured with her in support of that album.
Im besten Sinne zeitlos kann man auch die Musik von Gary Hoey bezeichnen, der auf "Dust & Bones" bodenständigen Blues-Rock vorstellt. Entdeckt wurde der US-Amerikaner 1987 von Black Sabbath-Legende Ozzy Osbourne, der ihn zum Vorspiel nach L.A. einlud. Dort gründete Hoey alsbald eine eigene Hard-Rock-Band, landete dann aber, nach Surfsound und verrockten Weihnachtsliedern, vor einigen Jahren beim Blues. Den spielt er kraftvoll, virtuos und mit viel Verve in der Tradition von Kollegen wie Johnny Winter, Robin Trower oder dem musikalisch ähnlich gelagerten Joe Bonamassa.
Das klingt zwar weder innovativ, noch zukunftsweisend, aber dennoch zeitgemäß - weil es Gary Hoey gelingt, die Erfahrungen seiner vorherigen, in den USA sehr erfolgreichen Platten mit einfließen zu lassen. Und immerhin gilt Hoey als einer der hundert besten Gitarristen der Welt. Und das kann man auf seinem neuen Album "Dust & Bones" heraushören.
Gary Hoey (born August 23, 1960) is a rock musician.
Early life and early career
At fourteen, Hoey often lingered outside Boston's renowned Berklee College of Music, making friends and offering to pay for lessons. To devote his time to music, he dropped out of high school and began playing Boston's local clubs and teaching guitar to other young players. He auditioned for Ozzy Osbourne in 1988, when Osbourne was searching for a replacement for Jake E. Lee, but the job went to Zakk Wylde.
In 1990, he teamed with singer Joel Ellis, bassist Rex Tennyson, and drummer Frankie Banali to form Heavy Bones. The band released their debut album in 1992, but broke up shortly afterwards.[1]
In 1993, he recorded the successful Animal Instinct album, which included a cover of the Focus hit "Hocus Pocus". Not only did the hit rocket into the Billboard Top 5, outpacing all other singles as the most frequently played rock song of the year, but the album went on to reach classic rock notoriety. The successful Endless Summer II soundtrack soon followed. He went on to record around twelve instrumental albums, all electric guitar oriented. His 1996 release, Bug Alley, displayed added vocal ability that he has expanded on more recent albums. He continues to tour extensively.
Later career
Gary Hoey's most recent album, “Dust & Bones” was released in 2016. He has recorded 20 albums and had five top-20 Billboard hits, and has been called one of the top 100 guitarists of all time.
As writer, producer, and guitar player, Hoey's clients have included Disney, ESPN, and No Fear, and he has performed the National Anthem for the New England Patriots, San Diego Padres, and the Boston Red Sox. Hoey has been featured on VH1 Classic’s documentary, “Aftermath,” and recently guest starred alongside Michael Anthony, Ace Frehley, and Dave Mason, among others, at the 2010 Rock N Roll Fantasy Camp in Los Angeles, which debuts as a special series on VH1 Classic beginning this spring.
His popular “Ho Ho Hoey” series of Christmas CDs and on-air station visits during the holiday season have become an annual staple at hundreds of radio stations nationwide. Moreover, his live annual interpretation, “Ho Ho Hoey’s Rockin’ Holiday Show,” gains new fans each year. Hallmark’s musical greeting cards feature two of Gary’s “Ho Ho Hoey” classics.
In addition to touring as a headline act, Hoey has toured and traded licks with Brian May of Queen, Ted Nugent, Foreigner, Joe Satriani, The Doobie Brothers, Kenny Wayne Shepard, Eric Johnson, Steve Vai, Peter Frampton, Rick Derringer, Deep Purple, and Lita Ford. Hoey supported Jeff Beck on the US leg of his Spring 2010 tour. Hoey played on and co-wrote a few songs on Lita Ford's album Living Like a Runaway album in 2012, as well as toured with her in support of that album.
Now, Hoey has forged his deep blues and rock roots into a fiery, organic, and thrilling mix that should delight and astound lovers of the guitar and guitar music.
“Looking back from my first album in 1992, it sure seems like I’m musically schizophrenic,” says Hoey. “But I truly believed in every style I played. I still do. I wanted to master everything—or at least try to—and every lick from every style I’ve absorbed informs everything I do today. And I love that, because all of that diversity helps me come up with riffs, licks, and melodies that are perhaps deeper and more unique than if I had stayed exclusively with one style.”
One thing that always stays consistent, however, is Hoey’s impassioned command of the guitar. He’s one of those guitarists who can attack his instrument with feral intensity, and then play something very soft and almost achingly beautiful. This ability to devise phrasing, technique, and tone in the service of feeling the music has not gone unnoticed.
In 1987, the Boston-born guitarist caught the ear of Ozzy Osbourne—no slouch at picking great guitar players—and almost ended up in his band. (The gig ultimately went to Zakk Wylde.) But Ozzy thought enough of Hoey to implore him to move where the action was—Los Angeles. The relocation paid off big time in 1992, when Hoey scored a major-label record deal with Reprise for his band, Heavy Bones. Sadly, the group was dropped in 1993, but Hoey’s determination won the day. He convinced the label to let him record a low-budget instrumental-guitar album, Animal Instinct, and his version of Focus’ “Hocus Pocus” brought Hoey chart success and a successful solo career. Since then, the gigs and accolades have never stopped. Here are some highlights…
• He scored the soundtrack to Endless Summer II (1994).
• He recorded “Miserlou ’97” with surf-guitar icon Dick Dale in 1997.
• He has provided music for several film and television companies, including Walt Disney, New Line Cinema, and ESPN.
• He scored the music to the awesome roller-coaster ride California Screaming at Disney’s California Adventure.
• He produced metal legend Lita Ford’s Living Like a Runaway album.
• He is a frequent coach and musical director at Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp.
• In 2015, he celebrated the 20th anniversary of his holiday CDs and tours under the Ho! Ho! Hoey banner. (Hallmark musical greeting cards feature two of his Ho! Ho! Hoey songs.)
• He recently completed filming an instructional blues-guitar video for TrueFire online guitar lessons.
“I love playing guitar, and, these days, it takes a creative and administrative commitment to keep a career evolving and growing,” says Hoey. “I’ve learned how to make records, how to manage social-networking campaigns, how to put a tour together, how to sell merchandise, and everything about how to survive in the music business as it exists right now. But it’s all worth it when I hang out with the audience at my shows and talk about music. The human interaction is critical, and having that relationship with my fans is what keeps me writing music and practicing like a demon. I never want to let those people down.”
“It’s great to hear Gary sing and play the blues with his trademark intensity, feel and authenticity. And the guitar tones! “Dust & Bones is a great sounding Blues/Rock album that’s both vintage and modern at the same time.” Joe Satriani
“I had the pleasure of singing a duet with the great Mr Gary Hoey, on the beautiful ballad called “Coming Home.” It’s got some awesome guitar playing in it” Lita Ford
Gary Hoey’s awesome command of styles, tones, and techniques drives so many different moods on Dust & Bones that you’ll feel as if he transports you across the musical universe and beyond.
Buckle up! Michael Molenda, Editor in Chief, Guitar Player magazine
Gary Hoey - Hocus Pocus ( 7-5-2014 )
Gary Hoey Blues and Brews Nashoba Valley Ski Area 2013 BTB PRODUCTIONS
Little Howlin' Wolf (James R. Pobiega) *23.08.1950
James Pobiega, a 6'9" Polish-derived man from Chicago's South Side, performed heavily in bars and and to a greater extent on the street of his home turf during the late 70s through the mid 80s under the name Little Howlin Wolf. During that time, self-released 32 45s (that we know of) and two LPs (compiled from the 7"s) titled The Guardian and The Cool Truth. The LPs show a unique and visionary take on emotive, raw, dissolved blues featuring Wolf on every instrument he could lay his hands on with a wrenching souldfulness and commanding fire-brained intensity to match Albert Ayler. The 45s, though, are where Wolf really stretched out, taking his music to its furthest reaches including stabs at Calypso, gypsy songs, Country-Western and children's songs.
"Wolf is so complex and separating the facts from his brain is real difficult ... 6'9" Polish south side Chicago badassnessed...invented breakdancing...wrote original 'Bad to the Bone'...inspired the 'Deacon Blue' song...drunk and drug addict street musician from 80-90's...now clean, runs and eats healthy...released 30+ (?) 45's that he sold on the street each with his unique stab at genre; calypso, reggae, blues, vocal chants, which he changed his name and invented the label name on so he wouldn't be easily traceable...Two self-released LP's The Guardian and The Cool Truth, he is the master of mind-blowing lo-fi off-kilter weird jam rooted in down-to-earth soul." -- Ian Nagoski
"Wolf is so complex and separating the facts from his brain is real difficult ... 6'9" Polish south side Chicago badassnessed...invented breakdancing...wrote original 'Bad to the Bone'...inspired the 'Deacon Blue' song...drunk and drug addict street musician from 80-90's...now clean, runs and eats healthy...released 30+ (?) 45's that he sold on the street each with his unique stab at genre; calypso, reggae, blues, vocal chants, which he changed his name and invented the label name on so he wouldn't be easily traceable...Two self-released LP's The Guardian and The Cool Truth, he is the master of mind-blowing lo-fi off-kilter weird jam rooted in down-to-earth soul." -- Ian Nagoski
Little Howlin’ Wolf - “The Guardian” & “Cool Truth” LP Reissues (Official Preview)
little howlin wolf - talkin' turban
Little Howlin' Wolf - Stoney Island
Chicago street musician, bluesman, and actor, Little Howlin' Wolf, was
born James R. Pobiega, Aug. 23, 1950. Of Polish decent, the grandson of a
gravedigger and "moonshiner", and son of a milkman, Pobiega grew up in
the working class neighborhood of Justice, Illinois, a town located on
the southwest outskirts of Chicago. Due to his large 6' 6" stature, and
tenacity on the football field at Argo High, he quickly earned the
nickname, 'Beowulf', which was later shortened to 'Wolf'. After high
school, Pobiega won a spot with 'The Goodman Theatre' in 1968, and in
1969 helped Goodman director Patrick Henry start a guerrilla troupe
called 'Free Street Theater'. He earned a few roles, including one in
"Red Roses for Me" by Sean O'Casey, and although quite successful he
would soon realize that music was his calling. A self-taught musician,
Wolf would gather up his guitar, harmonica, and saxophone, and hit the
streets of Chicago, performing his original blues and jazz compositions,
wherever and anywhere he could. Given his voice was filled with a
natural booming, yet gravelly, soulful, and bluesy sound, he was given
the moniker, Little Howlin' Wolf, in respect to fellow bluesman and
predecessor, Howlin' Wolf, aka Chester Burnett. A name he was honored to
receive, and still embraces to this day. As early as 1968 he was a
fixture at the Maxwell Street market, playing sax alongside bluesmen
like Blind Arvella Gray and Junior Wells. During the 1970s, Wolf started
his own record label 'Solidarity Solidarnosc Records', with
subsidiaries 'Alcatraz', 'Beacon', and 'Justice'. Since then, he has
recorded and released over two volumes of singles and three full length
albums; 'The Guardian' (1982), 'The Cool Truth' (1985), and his latest,
'Brave Nu World' (2005). A cultural student and teacher, and advocate
for the people, Wolf has brought his music and messages for peace and
understanding all over North America and Europe, and has been featured
in many blues and jazz magazines, as well as People Magazine. He has
also performed a wide variety of other types of original music under the
names; Deacon Blue, Papa Doc (spiritual and tribal), Bo Tom Ed (his
comedic country character), The Shadow Drifter (folk), and Buccaneer Bob
(a pirate character he uses to entertain children shows). In recent
years, Pobiega has returned to acting. He has been a part of Chicago's
theatre scene, and been in a handful of independent short and feature
films, working alongside Willy Laszlo, Tim Kazurinsky, John Borowski,
Edward Asner, and Judge Reinhold. He has also earned his Captain's
license for boating, became a SCUBA instructor, and found the time to
return to the football field in an independent-hobbyist football league
outside Joliet, Illinois.
