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Robben Ford
Robben Lee Ford (born December 16, 1951) is an American blues, jazz, and rock guitarist. He was a member of the L.A. Express and Yellowjackets and has collaborated with Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell, George Harrison, Larry Carlton, Rick Springfield, Little Feat and Kiss. He was named one of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of the 20th Century" by ''Musician'' magazine. Early life Robben Ford was born in Woodlake, California, United States, and raised in Ukiah, California. He began playing the saxophone at age 10 and the guitar at age 14. Robben and two of his brothers (Patrick and Mark) created the ''Charles Ford Blues Band'' in honor of and named after their father. A fourth brother died in the Vietnam conflict. Career At age 18, Ford's band was hired to play with Charlie Musselwhite, and recorded two albums ''The Charles Ford Band'' and ''Discovering the Blues''. He recorded two albums with Jimmy Witherspoon called ''Live'' and ''Spoonful''. In the 1970s, Ford joined the j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodlake, California
Woodlake is a city in the San Joaquin Valley in Tulare County, California, United States. The population was 7,279 at the 2010 census, up from 6,651 at the 2000 census. In 1912, the city of Woodlake was founded by Gilbert F. Stevenson. Geography Woodlake is located at (36.416435, -119.099544). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which, of it is land and of it (18.69%) is water. Climate According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Woodlake has a semi-arid climate, abbreviated "BSk" on climate maps. Demographics The 2010 census reported that Woodlake had a population of 7,279. The population density was . The racial makeup of Woodlake was 3,691 (50.7%) White, 37 (0.5%) African American, 108 (1.5%) Native American, 52 (0.7%) Asian, 9 (0.1%) Pacific Islander, 3,072 (42.2%) from other races, and 310 (4.3%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 6,381 persons (87.7%). The whole population lived in hous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Harrison
George Harrison (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. Sometimes called "the quiet Beatle", Harrison embraced Indian culture and helped broaden the scope of popular music through his incorporation of Indian instrumentation and Hindu-aligned spirituality in the Beatles' work. Although the majority of the band's songs were written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, most Beatles albums from 1965 onwards contained at least two Harrison compositions. His songs for the group include " Taxman", " Within You Without You", " While My Guitar Gently Weeps", " Here Comes the Sun" and " Something". Harrison's earliest musical influences included George Formby and Django Reinhardt; Carl Perkins, Chet Atkins and Chuck Berry were subsequent influences. By 1965, he had begun to lead the Beatles into folk rock through his interest in Bob Dylan and the Byrds, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peg (song)
"Peg" is a song by American rock group Steely Dan, first released on the band's 1977 album '' Aja''. The track was released as single in 1977 and reached number 11 on the US ''Billboard'' chart in 1978 and number eight on the ''Cash Box'' chart. Steely Dan USA chart history Billboard.com. Retrieved May 28, 2012. With a chart run of 19 weeks, "Peg" is tied with "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" and "Hey Nineteen" for being Steely Dan's longest-running chart hit. In Canada, "Peg" spent three weeks at number seven during March 1978. Music and lyrics "Peg" has been described by AllMusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine as a "sunny pop" song with "layers of jazzy vocal harmonies", while music scholar Stephen K. Valdez said it features a fusion of jazz and rock elements. In the opinion of jazz musician and academic Andy LaVerne, the song "has the blues at its core, though it might not be apparent at first listen". The song's guitar solo was attempted by seven top studio session guitarist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steely Dan
Steely Dan is an American rock band founded in 1971 in New York by Walter Becker (guitars, bass, backing vocals) and Donald Fagen (keyboards, lead vocals). Initially the band had a stable lineup, but in 1974, Becker and Fagen retired from live performances to become a studio-only band, opting to record with a revolving cast of session musicians. ''Rolling Stone'' has called them "the perfect musical antiheroes for the seventies". Becker and Fagen played together in a variety of bands from their time together studying at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. They later moved to Los Angeles, gathered a band of musicians, and began recording albums. Their first album, '' Can't Buy a Thrill'' (1972), established a template for their career, blending elements of rock, jazz, Latin music, R&B, bluesAllMusic Steely Dan: Biography and sophisticated studio production with cryptic and ironic lyrics. The band enjoyed critical and commercial success through seven stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Inside Story (album)
''The Inside Story'' is a 1979 studio album by Robben Ford. Track listing All songs written by Robben Ford except where noted #"Magic Sam" – 5:53 #"For the One I Love" – 4:22 #"North Carolina" – 4:38 #"There's No One Else" (Ford, Russell Ferrante) – 6:52 #"The Inside Story" (Ford, Russell Ferrante) – 5:30 #"Need Somebody" (Gordon Edwards, Richard Tee) #"Far Away" – 5:40 #"Tee Time for Eric" – 5:09 Personnel * Robben Ford – guitar, vocals; Roland electric piano on "Need Somebody" * Alan Rubin – trumpet * Tom Malone – trombone, baritone saxophone * Lou Marini – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, horn arrangements * Russell Ferrante – synthesizer, ARP Odyssey and Moog synthesizer programming * Steve Perry a.k.a. Stephen Sea – synthesizer * Mark Ford – harmonica * Jimmy Haslip – bass guitar * Ricky Lawson – drums, percussion * Vander "Starz" Lockett – percussion * Tommy Vig Tommy may refer to: People * Tommy (given name) * Tommy Atkins, or jus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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The mile, sometimes the international mile or statute mile to distinguish it from other miles, is a British imperial unit and United States customary unit of distance; both are based on the older English unit of length equal to 5,280 English feet, or 1,760 yards. The statute mile was standardised between the British Commonwealth and the United States by an international agreement in 1959, when it was formally redefined with respect to SI units as exactly . With qualifiers, ''mile'' is also used to describe or translate a wide range of units derived from or roughly equivalent to the Roman mile, such as the nautical mile (now exactly), the Italian mile (roughly ), and the Chinese mile (now exactly). The Romans divided their mile into 5,000 Roman feet but the greater importance of furlongs in Elizabethan-era England meant that the statute mile was made equivalent to or in 1593. This form of the mile then spread across the British Empire, some successor states of which conti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miles Of Aisles
''Miles of Aisles'' is the first live album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, released in 1974 on Asylum Records. It is a double album documenting her concerts in support of the '' Court and Spark'' album with her backing band for the tour, the L.A. Express. It reached No. 2 on the ''Billboard'' 200 and became one of her biggest-selling records, certified a gold record by the RIAA. Content This was Mitchell's first tour with backing musicians; prior to this she had generally performed solo, and had never organized a tour with a band. She hired an already existing group, the jazz fusion band L.A. Express, members of which had appeared on her previous studio album, ''Court and Spark'', the biggest commercial success of her career. A track from this live album, " Big Yellow Taxi", was released as a single. Four years after the studio version had stalled at No. 67 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 as a single, this live version reached No. 24 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
''The Hissing of Summer Lawns'' is the seventh studio album by the Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, released in 1975. The sessions featured backing from members of the jazz groups the L.A. Express and the Jazz Crusaders. The lead single was " In France They Kiss on Main Street." The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Background The slick jazz-pop sound Mitchell developed on ''Court and Spark'' (1974) would be pushed into more adventurous territory on ''The Hissing of Summer Lawns''. On "The Jungle Line", Mitchell is credited with the first commercially released song to include sampling, featuring a loop recording of African musicians. This interest in world music would presage the work of Peter Gabriel and Paul Simon in subsequent years. Other tracks reflect a fusion of jazz and "shimmering avant pop." The album also utilizes ARP synthesizer. Songs The first track, "In France They Kiss on Main Street", is a jazz-rock son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Scott (saxophonist)
Thomas Wright Scott (born May 19, 1948) is an American saxophonist, composer, and arranger. He was a member of The Blues Brothers and led the jazz fusion group L.A. Express. Early life, family and education Scott was born in Los Angeles, California, US. He is the son of film and television composer Nathan Scott, who had more than 850 television credits and more than 100 film credits as a composer, orchestrator, and conductor, including the theme songs for '' Dragnet'' and '' Lassie''. Career Tom Scott's career began as a teenager as leader of the jazz ensemble Neoteric Trio and the band Men of Note. After that, he worked as a session musician. In 1970, Quincy Jones said of him: "Tom Scott, the saxophonist; he's 21, and out of sight! Plays any idiom you can name, and blows like crazy on half a dozen horns." Scott wrote the theme songs for the television shows '' Starsky and Hutch'' and '' The Streets of San Francisco''. In 1974, with the L.A. Express he composed the score for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Witherspoon
James Witherspoon (August 8, 1920 – September 18, 1997) was an American jump blues singer. Early life, family and education Witherspoon was born in Gurdon, Arkansas. His father was a railroad worker who sang in local choirs, and his mother was an avid piano player. Witherspoon's grandson Ahkello Witherspoon is the starting cornerback for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Witherspoon eventually joined the Merchant Marines. Career Witherspoon first attracted attention singing in Calcutta, India, with Teddy Weatherford's band, which made regular radio broadcasts over the US Armed Forces Radio Service during World War II. Witherspoon made his first records with Jay McShann's band in 1945. He first recorded under his own name in 1947, and two years later with the McShann band, he had his first hit, " Ain't Nobody's Business", a song that came to be regarded as his signature tune. In 1950 he had hits with two more songs closely identified with him—"No Rollin' Blues" and "Big Fine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Musselwhite
Charles Douglas Musselwhite (born January 31, 1944) is an American electric blues harmonica player and bandleader, one of the white bluesmen who came to prominence, along with Mike Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield, and Elvin Bishop, as a pivotal figure in helping to revive the Chicago Blues movement of the 1960s. He has often been identified as a "white bluesman". Musselwhite was reportedly the inspiration for Elwood Blues; the character played by Dan Aykroyd in the 1980 film, '' The Blues Brothers''. Biography Musselwhite was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi to white parents. Originally claiming to be of partly Choctaw descent, in a 2005 interview he said his mother had told him he was of distant Cherokee descent. His family considered it natural to play music. His father played guitar and harmonica, his mother played piano, and a relative was a one-man band. At the age of three, Musselwhite moved to Memphis, Tennessee. When he was a teenager, Memphis experienced the period w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukiah, California
Ukiah ( ; Pomo: ''Yokaya'', meaning "deep valley") is the county seat and largest city of Mendocino County, California, with a population of 16,607 at the 2020 census. With its accessible location along the U.S. Route 101 corridor, Ukiah serves as the city center for Mendocino County and much of neighboring Lake County. History Establishment Ukiah is located within Rancho Yokaya, one of several Spanish colonial land grants in what was their colonists called '' Alta California''. The Yokaya grant, which covered the majority of the Ukiah valley, was named for the Pomo word meaning "deep valley." The Pomo are the indigenous people who occupied the area at the time of Spanish colonization. Later European-American settlers adopted Ukiah as an anglicized version of this name for the city. Cayetano Juárez was granted Ukiah by Alta California. He was known to have a neutral relationship with the local Pomo people. He sold a southern portion of the grant (toward present-day ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
