Colin Hodgkinson (born 14 October 1945,

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, England) is a British

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and

blues Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the Afr ...

bassist A bassist (also known as a bass player or bass guitarist) is a musician who plays a Bass (instrument), bass instrument such as a double bass (upright bass, contrabass, wood bass), bass guitar (electric bass, acoustic bass), synthbass, keyboar ...

, who has been active since the 1960s.

Career

Hodgkinson played in several bands, but was even more prolific as a session and

studio musician Session musicians, studio musicians, or backing musicians are musicians hired to perform in recording sessions or live performances. The term sideman is also used in the case of live performances, such as accompanying a recording artist on a ...

He has worked with

Chris Rea Christopher Anton Rea ( ; born 4 March 1951) is an English rock and blues Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, fie ...

, The Eric Delaney Band, Back Door (of which he was co-founder),

Alexis Korner Alexis Andrew Nicholas Koerner (19 April 1928 – 1 January 1984), known professionally as Alexis Korner, was a British blues musician and radio broadcaster, who has sometimes been referred to as "a founding father of British blues". A major in ...

Whitesnake Whitesnake are an English hard rock band formed in London in 1978. The group was originally put together as the backing band for singer David Coverdale, who had recently left Deep Purple. Though the band quickly developed into their own entit ...

Jon Lord John Douglas Lord (9 June 194116 July 2012) was an English orchestral and rock composer, pianist, and Hammond organ player known for his pioneering work in fusing rock with classical or baroque forms, especially with the British rock band Deep ...

Jan Hammer Jan Hammer () (born 17 April 1948) is a Czech-American musician, composer, and record producer. He first gained his most visible audience while playing keyboards with the Mahavishnu Orchestra during the early 1970s, as well as his film scores fo ...

Paul Butterfield Paul Vaughn Butterfield (December 17, 1942May 4, 1987) was an American blues harmonica player, singer and band leader. After early training as a classical flautist, he developed an interest in blues harmonica. He explored the blues scene in his n ...

The Spencer Davis Group The Spencer Davis Group were a British band formed in Birmingham in 1963 by Spencer Davis (guitar), brothers Steve Winwood (keyboards, guitar) and Muff Winwood (bass guitar), and Pete York (drums). Their best known songs include the UK numbe ...

Pete York Peter York (born 15 August 1942 in Redcar, Yorkshire, England) is a British rock drummer who has been performing since the 1960s. Biography Born in Redcar, he attended the Nottingham High School and learnt to play the trumpet and snare drum ...

, and The Electric Blues Duo, as well as with Ian "Stu" Stewart's

boogie-woogie Boogie-woogie is a genre of blues music that became popular during the late 1920s, developed in African-American communities since 1870s.Paul, Elliot, ''That Crazy American Music'' (1957), Chapter 10, p. 229. It was eventually extended from pian ...

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Rocket 88 "Rocket 88" (originally stylized as Rocket "88") is a song that was first recorded in Memphis, Tennessee, in March 1951. The recording was credited to " Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats", who were actually Ike Turner and his Kings of Rhythm. T ...

. In 2007, Hodgkinson became a member of

The British Blues Quintet The British Blues Quintet were a British band formed in 2006 by five musicians, known for their interpretations of blues music. The line-up included keyboardist and singer Zoot Money, drummer Colin Allen, vocalist Maggie Bell, bassist Colin Hodg ...

, (along with

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Maggie Bell Margaret Bell (born 12 January 1945 in Maryhill, Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish rock vocalist. She came to fame as co-lead vocalist of the blues-rock group Stone the Crows, and was described as the UK's closest counterpart to American sing ...

, Miller Anderson and

Colin Allen Colin Eric Allen (born 9 May 1938) is an English blues drummer and songwriter. Career Allen spent the first ten years of his adult life working in aircraft engineering. He became interested in jazz at the age of 16 and two years later starte ...

Guitar, bass, and sound

Hodgkinson is a musician who has developed a left-hander bass technique which can replace both

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and

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if necessary, (as exemplified by his work with the

jazz-rock Jazz fusion (also known as fusion and progressive jazz) is a music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and jazz improvisation, improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric guitars, ...

trio Back Door - line-up:

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, bass,

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s). A typical

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involving Hodgkinson will be a

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slot in which he will render a bass and vocals only rendition of a classic blues

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, a particular favourite being his take on

Jesse Fuller Jesse Fuller (March 12, 1896 – January 29, 1976) was an American one-man band musician, best known for his song "San Francisco Bay Blues". Early life Fuller was born in Jonesboro, Georgia, near Atlanta. He was sent by his mother to live with ...

's "

San Francisco Bay Blues "San Francisco Bay Blues" is an American folk song and is generally considered to be the most famous composition by Jesse Fuller. Fuller first recorded the song in 1954, which was released by the World Song label in 1955. A "one-man band" renditio ...

." This track was included in his

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''The Bottom Line'', issued in 1998, which consists mostly of bass solos. On 28 October 2008, the Colin Hodgkinson Band released ''Back Door Too!'', recorded with Rod Mason (

) and Paul Robinson (

s). In March 2014, Hodgkinson was announced as the new bass player for

Ten Years After Ten Years After are a British rock group, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Between 1968 and 1973, the band had eight consecutive Top 40 albums on the UK Albums Chart. In addition, they had twelve albums enter the US ''Billboar ...

, following the departure of

Leo Lyons Leo David William Lyons (born 30 November 1943) is an English musician, who was most notably the bassist of the blues rock band Ten Years After. Biography Leo Lyons was born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire in November 1943 and became a profess ...

two months prior.

Solo discography

*''The Bottom Line'' - 1998 - In Akustik * ''Back Door Too!'' - 2008 (Rokoko Records)

Selected Discography

* New Church - ''Both Sides'' (1969) *

- ''Alexis Korner'' (1971) *

- ''"And..."'' (1972) * Back Door - '' Back Door'' (1972) * Back Door - ''

8th Street Nites ''8th Street Nites'' is the second Album#Studio album, studio album by Back Door (jazz trio), Back Door, released in 1973 by Warner Bros. Records. It was recorded at Electric Lady Studios in New York and produced by Felix Pappalardi, famous for ...

'' (1973) *

- ''Mr. Blues'' (1974) * Back Door - ''

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'' (1975) *

- ''Get Off My Cloud'' (1975) * Back Door - '' Activate'' (1976) * Jamie Stone (musician) - ''Let It Shine'' (1977) *

- ''Just Easy'' (1978) *

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- ''Hammer'' (also as ''Black Sheep'') (1979) *

- ''The Party Album'' (1979) * K2 (band) - ''Why'' (1980) *

- ''Testament'' (2000) LP/CD - live Paris in March 1980 *

- ''Live in Paris'' (1994) CD - live Paris in March 1980 - different songs from 'Testament' *

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- ''Butterflies'' (1981) * Ronnie Jack - ''Going for the Big One'' (1981) *

Cozy Powell Cozy Powell (born Colin Trevor Flooks; 29 December 1947 – 5 April 1998) was an English rock drummer who made his name with major rock bands and artists such as The Jeff Beck Group, Rainbow, Michael Schenker Group, Gary Moore, Robert Plant, ...

- ''Octopuss'' (1983) *

Schon & Hammer Schon & Hammer was an American rock duo composed of composer/drummer/keyboardist Jan Hammer and guitarist Neal Schon. They released two studio albums, '' Untold Passion'' in 1981 and '' Here to Stay'' in 1982 and a collection entitled ''No More L ...

- ''Untold Passion'' (1981) *

- ''Here To Stay'' (1981) *

- ''Slide It In'' (1984) (Original UK mix only) *

- ''Juvenile Delinquent'' (1984) *

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- ''She's The Boss'' (1985) *

- ''Steaming'' (1985) *

Phil Carmen Phil Carmen (born ''Herbert Hofmann'', February 14, 1953 in Lucerne, Switzerland) is a Swiss musician and producer of Canadian heritage. Early career Carmen grew up in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and in Lucerne, Switzerland. In Lucerne, he wen ...

- ''City Walls'' (1986) * James Young with

- ''City Slicker'' (1986) * Electric Blues Duo - ''Bitch'' (1986) *

Konstantin Wecker Konstantin Alexander Wecker (born 1 June 1947, Munich) is a German singer-songwriter; he also works as a composer, author, and actor. Life and work Classically educated at the Wilhelmsgymnasium, Wecker got one of his first jobs as a songwriter a ...

- ''Wieder Dahoam'' (1986) * Electric Blues Duo - ''Maker Mine A Double'' (1987) *

- ''Live'' (1987) *

Spencer Davis Group The Spencer Davis Group were a British band formed in Birmingham in 1963 by Spencer Davis (guitar), brothers Steve Winwood (keyboards, guitar) and Muff Winwood (bass guitar), and Pete York (drums). Their best known songs include the UK numbe ...

- ''Extremely Live'' (1987) *

- ''Ganz Schön Wecker'' (1988) * James Young - ''Out on a Day Pass'' (1988) *

- ''Superdrumming 1, 2 & 3'' (1988) *

Peter Maffay Peter Alexander Makkay (born 30 August 1949), known as Peter Maffay (), is a Romanian-born German musician, singer, and composer. Early life Born in Braşov (german: link=no, Kronstadt), Romania, the son of a German (Transylvanian Saxon), h ...

- ''Leipzig'' (1990) *

- ''38317'' (1991) *

- ''Liebe'' (1991) *

- ''Freunde + Propheten'' (1992) * Electric Blues Duo & HR Big Band - ''Electric Blues Duo & HR Big Band'' (1993) *

- ''Tabaluga und Lilli 1'' (1993) *

- ''Tabaluga und Lilli 2'' (1993) *

- ''Memorial Concert Volume 2'' (1995) * Electric Blues Duo - ''Out on the Highway'' (1995) * Miller Anderson - ''Celtic Moon'' (1998) *

- ''Payin' Them Blues Dues'' (1997) * Woodstock Taylor - ''Road Movie'' (1997) * Electric Blues Duo - ''Lucky at Cards'' (1998) *

- '' Pictured Within'' (1999) * Frank Diez - ''Stranded on Fantasy Island'' (2000) * Back Door - '' Askin' the Way'' (2003) *

- ''Official Bootleg 2006'' (2006) * Electric Blues Duo - ''The last fair Deal'' (2006) *

- ''Live in Glasgow'' (2007) *

Percussion Band - ''Pete York & Friends'' (2008) * Electric Blues Duo - ''LIVE! L’Inoui Luxembourg'' (2010) *

- ''A Sting in the Tale'' (2017)

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