Transfers part II

Barry Goldberg (born 1941 in Chicago, Illinois) is a blues keyboardist. He played in the band supporting Bob Dylan during his 1965 'electrified' appearance at the Newport Folk Festival. He formed Electric Flag with Mike Bloomfield in 1967, and later formed the Barry Goldberg Reunion in 1968.

Mike Bloomfield

Mike Bloomfield played on the Al Kooper "Super Sessions" album. He played one side of the album whilst the other was played by :

Stephen Stills

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. Stills eventually ended up in a nine-member vocal harmony group, the house act at the famous Cafe Au Go Go in NYC, called the Au Go Go Singers (1964/65) where he met Richie Furay. This group released one album in 1964 and broke up in 1965. Afterwards, Stills, along with four other members of the Au Go Go Singers, formed The Company, a folk/rock group. Three years before performing in the Au Go Go Singers, these same four (Rick (nee Frederic) Geiger, Roy Michaels, Jean Gurney & Michael Scott), were the Bay Singers, a folk/bluegrass quartet that eventually morphed into the formation of the Au Go Go Singers. The Company embarked on a 6-week tour of Canada where Stills met a young guitarist named -

Neil Young :D

Neil Young is one of the founders of Farm Aid. There he performs with a host of other musicians, several of whom are leaders of the Farm Aid movement: e.g. Dave Matthews and John Mellencamp. But the highlight of the concert in Ohio a few years ago was the moment when he jammed on "Down by the River" with the other original founder of the concerts:

Willie Nelson.

Willie Nelson, the very epitome of outlaw country, has had a long, distinguished but not uncheckered career ;-)

The famous player of the aircooled Martin N-20 has recorded with artists as diverse as Bob Dylan, Sinéad O'Connor, David Crosby, Bonnie Raitt, Carol King, Keith Richards and Paul Simon, not to mention his fellow Highwaymen Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, and

Kris Kristofferson

Kris Kristofferson signed to Monument Records as a recording artist. The label was run by Fred Foster, also manager of Columbine Music, Kristofferson's songwriting label. His debut album for Monument was Kristofferson, which included a few new songs as well as many of his previous hits. Sales were poor. In spite of his failure as a recording artist, Kristofferson's compositions were still in high demand. Ray Price ("For the Good Times"), Waylon Jennings ("The Taker"), Bobby Bare ("Come Sundown"), Johnny Cash ("Sunday Morning Coming Down") and Sammi Smith ("Help Me Make It Through the Night") all recorded successful versions of his songs in the early 1970s. "For the Good Times" (Ray Price) won 'Song of the Year" in 1970 from the Academy of Country Music, while "Sunday Morning Coming Down" (Johnny Cash) won the same award from the Academy's rival, the Country Music Association in the same year. This is the only time an individual has won the same award from these two organizations in the same year for different songs.

Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash's wife, June, had a daughter - Carlene - from a previous marriage to Carl Smith. Carlene married British songwriter/singer/musician/producer Nick Lowe (who, after Bowie brought out the albun "Low," released an EP titled "Bowi"....) long time friend of and collaborator with.....

Dave Edmunds

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Vic

Dave Edmunds (born April 15, 1944) came out of Cardiff, Wales in the late 1960s, fronting a band called Love Sculpture who were playing blues and rocked up classical pieces. "Sabre Dance" was typical of this, a top ten hit after much airplay from DJ John Peel. After the band split, Edmunds had a huge number one single with "I Hear You Knocking", a cover of a blues classic from Smiley Lewis. After learning his trade as a producer, culminating in a couple of Phil Spector type singles, "Baby I Love You" and "Born To Be With You", he became enamoured of the concurrent pub rock movement of the early 1970s, producing Brinsley Schwarz, Ducks Deluxe, and also The Flamin' Groovies, using a stripped down, grittier sound.

Smiley Lewis

Little-known New Orleans R&B singer and guitarist Smiley (born Overton Lemons, poor man) worked throughout the 50's and on into the 60's, till his death from cancer in 1966.

He worked with quite a range of musicians over the years, including Huey Smith, Lee Allen and veteran tenor sax player

Clarence Hall

Clarence hall has performed in the album of a great Rhythm and Blues musician and an inductee in the songwriters hall of fame -

Dave Bartholomew 8)

Mr Bartolomew co-wrote "I hear you Knocking" with Fats Domino - originally a hit for Smiley Lewis in the late 50's, it was covered by Dave Edmunds in 1970 and was a no.1 hit in Britain. Amongst other songs Dave has covered is "Almost Saturday Night" which was written and originally recorded by the very wonderful.....

John Fogerty.

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Vic

"John and his brother, Tom Fogerty, formed the band in El Cerrito, California in the late 1950s as Tommy Fogerty and the Blue Velvets. The name was changed to The Golliwogs in the mid 1960s, but the band remained unpopular.

By 1968, things were starting to pick up. The band released its first album, the self-titled Creedence Clearwater Revival, and also had their first hit single, "Susie Q." Other hit singles of Creedence Clearwater Revival were "Proud Mary," "Fortunate Son," "Up Around The Bend," "Green River," "Down On The Corner," "Travelin' Band," "Lookin' Out My Back Door," "Bad Moon Rising," and "Who'll Stop The Rain."

Tensions flared in 1971, causing John's brother, Tom, to leave the band. John demanded that Stu Cook and Doug Clifford write and sing one third each of the next album, Mardi Gras. They protested, saying it wouldn't be a CCR album, and that the fans would not understand. John replied, "my voice is a unique instrument and I will not lend it to your songs." He threatened to quit the band immediately if his ultimatum was not met; Mardi Gras turned out to be their last album as Fogerty bought himself out of his contract and officially left the band.

However, his influence was not forgotten with his departure. His guitar playing with CCR would later lead Rolling Stone to name him the 40th greatest guitarist of all time." - Wikipedia

Stu Cook

Stu Cook plays now bass with Creedence Clearwater Revisited, whose lead guitarist Tal Morris played on Mark Naftalin's live weekly radio program with people like John Lee Hooker, Charlie Musselwhite, Lowell Fulson, Percy Mayfield and others, later recording with bass virtuoso Stu Hamm and touring with Huey Lewis and the News.

Stu Hamm

Stu Hamm has performed with Steve Vai, Frank Gambale, and most significantly with Joe Satriani. It was under Satriani that Hamm's skill was taken out of the local San Francisco scene and into the national limelight.

Frank Gambale

Frank Gambale, head of the Dept of Guitar at the L.A. Music Academy and joint designer, with Dave Cervates and Ken Dapron, of the Yamaha AES-FG, now heads up the band Vital Information, with legendary keyboard player, Tom Coster, bassist Baron Browne and drummer Steve Smith.

Tom Coster