Transfers part II

John Kay's career seems to have been pretty much circumscribed by his work with Steppenwolf, apart from some solo albums, where even then his backing musicians have often been Steppenwolf personnel moonlighting!

When Kay first decided to change his early band The Sparrow into the Steppenwolf we know so well, he was strongly influenced by bands like The Yardbirds, where the attraction seems to have been not so much their famously rotating lead guitarists (Clapton, Beck, Page ... ) but the brilliant, inspirational, slightly menacing presence of lead singer / harp player

Keith Relf

Back to the blues brothers again (sigh!) - Aretha appeared in a cameo, begging her screen husband, Matt "Guitar" Murphy, not to go back on the road with Jake & Elwood - other members of the band were Steve Cropper and Donald "Duck" Dunn, who played in the MG's with.....

Booker T. Jones

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Vic

Best known as the organist and leader of the legendary Stax house band Booker T. & the MG's, Jones currently still plays with his own Booker T. Jones Band. His wife Priscilla has collaborated with him on production projects, including work for her famous sister

Rita Coolidge

Rita Coolidge's early career was as a backing vocalist, for artists such as Joe Cocker, Eric Clapton and Leon Russell. She became known as "The Delta Lady" and inspired Leon Russell to write a song of the same name for her. It was during this time that she met Kris Kristofferson and they married in 1973. With him she recorded several duet albums which sold well, and earned them a Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 1974 for From The Bottle To The Bottom, and in 1976 for Lover Please.
She had several solo hit singles during the late 1970s with cover versions. Her first hit, "(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher And Higher" (originally recorded by Jackie Wilson), was also her highest seller, reaching number two on the US charts in 1977.

Another of her hits was "We're All Alone", originally recorded by..........

Boz Scaggs

William Royce Scaggs, best know as a guitarist, and for his solo albums and his legendary work with The Steve Miller Band (he featured on Sailor), played bass, before his 1967 move to San Francisco, in an all but forgotten band called The Other Side, with Jack Downing and

Mac MacLeod

Mac MacLeod was an Englishman, who had previously played in a group, which had had success in Denmark and was called Hurdy Gurdy. One of Mac's friends wrote a song for them, but due to a disagreement on how this song should be played, recorded it himself and had a hit with "Hurdy Gurdy Man", namely

Donovan Leitch

Dr Donovan Leitch (he holds an honourary D. Litt from the University of Hertfordshire) over a long and sometimes neglected career, including some 28 albums, and film music (notably Zeffirelli's Brother Sun, Sister Moon, has worked with many other fine musicians, including Jeff Beck, Ron Wood, Nicky Hopkins and Alan Parker ...

recently he has begun working in a trio format again, returning to jazz/blues roots with Jim Keltner and that remarkable veteran bass player

Danny Thompson

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Dr Donovan Leitch (he holds an honourary D. Litt from the University of Hertfordshire) over a long and sometimes neglected career, including some 28 albums, and film music (notably Zeffirelli's Brother Sun, Sister Moon), has worked with many other fine musicians, including Jeff Beck, Ron Wood, Nicky Hopkins and Alan Parker ...

recently he has begun working in a trio format again, returning to jazz/blues roots with Jim Keltner and that remarkable veteran bass player

Danny Thompson

Danny T's been associated with and played with, over the years, many members of the English folk-rock band Fairport Convention, who did a cover of Dylan's "If you got to go, go now" (si vous voudrai partir.....) which was also covered by Manfred Mann....they made a living out of covering Dylan songs in the 60's, then in the 70's Manfred Manns Earth Band also covered a lot of songs by Springsteen....as did a certain Allan Clarke, lead singer of.....

The Hollies

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Vic

The Hollies, who came to prominence in the '60s as part of the Merseybeat phenomenon - they were regulars at The Cavern Club in Liverpool - grew in popularity as a lightweight love-song factory, combining popular R&B covers with Everly-type harmony vocals, and catchy tunes written mostly by Allan Clarke and Graham Nash. with able assistance from lead guitarist Tony Hicks.

Despite the best efforts of Graham Nash to haul the band away from bubblegum and into serious progressive rock (which they were well capable of, musically, especially with Hicks' excellent guitar work) the public only really wanted to buy their pop offerings, and Graham Nash crossed the Atlantic to help form Crosby Stills & Nash ...

Stephen Stills

Stills was born in Dallas, Texas on January 3, 1945 to a military family. Moving around as a child, he developed an interest in blues and folk music. He was also influenced by Latin music after spending his teenage years in Costa Rica and the Panama Canal Zone, where he graduated high school. Stills dropped out of the University of Florida to pursue a music career in the early 1960s. He played in a series of unsuccessful bands including the Continentals, which featured future Eagles guitarist..........

Don Felder

Don Felder, the man who played the solo on 'Hotel California' , was a member of The Eagles through their crucial late period, and played on The LongRun following the HC album.

Hotel California was produced by none other than Bill Szymczyk, veteran producer of Quincy Jones, BB King, The James Gang and the first solo album from legendary bassist ...

Harvey Brooks

Harvey Brooks came out of a New York music scene that was crackling with activity in the early 1960's — one of the younger players on his instrument, he was a contemporary of Andy Kulberg and other eclectic players in their late teens and early 20's, who saw not a huge gap between folk, blues, rock, and jazz. Columbia Records producer Tom Wilson gave Brooks his first boost to fame when he picked him to play as part of Bob Dylan's backing band on the sessions that yielded the song "Like a Rolling Stone" and the album Highway 61 Revisited — in contrast to the kind of folkie-electric sound generated by the band on his previous album, Bringing It All Back Home Wilson and Dylan were looking for a harder, in-your-face electric sound, and Brooks, along with guitarist Michael Bloomfield and organist Al Kooper, provided exactly what was needed on one of the most famous recordings of the 1960's. Brooks may also have been part of the band recruited by Wilson to play the electric backing on the Simon & Garfunkel single "The Sounds Of Silence."

Al Kooper

Stil underrated genius of the Hammond organ, producer and guitarist Al Kooper is probably best known for his work with Bob Dylan, the band Blood, Sweat & Tears, and for the Super Session recordings with Stephen Stills and Mike Bloomfield.

Mike Bloomfield also played on a rather similar album called Two Jews' Blues with another keyboard virtuoso, the New York (and sometimes Chicago!) based sessionman

Barry Goldberg

Still underrated genius of the Hammond organ, producer (and guitarist) Al Kooper is probably best known for his work with Bob Dylan, the band Blood, Sweat & Tears, and for the Super Session recordings with Stephen Stills and Mike Bloomfield.

Mike Bloomfield also played on a rather similar album called Two Jews' Blues with another keyboard virtuoso, the New York (and sometimes Chicago!) based sessionman

Barry Goldberg