![]() ![]() In her final university year, Strehli and Lewis Cowdrey formed the Fabulous Rockets. ![]() In 1966 she visited Chicago, and attended concerts given by Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters and Buddy Guy. In the early 1960s, Strehli learned the harmonica and bass guitar before becoming a vocalist. #antones #fabulousthunderbirds #stevierayvaughan #austinmusiciansĪngela discusses her long career and talks about her friends in the music biz: Stevie Ray Vaughan, Muddy Waters, Huey Lewis, Gregg Allman, Janis Joplin and more. Hutto, Lazy Lester, Dave Peabody, Baby Boy Warren, Eddie "Guitar" Burns, Eddie Taylor, Big John Wrencher, Mickey Baker, and Eddy Clearwater. Bob has accompanied: John Lee Hooker, Howlin’ Wolf, Little Walter, Jimmy Witherspoon, Chuck Berry, Homesick James, Lightnin' Slim, Lowell Fulsom, Charlie Musselwhite, Snooky Pryor, J. Hall was also a founder-member, with Ian Stewart, of the Boogie Woogie Big Band which later became Rocket 88, and which included Hal Singer, Don Weller and Dick Morrissey, Charlie Watts, Alexis Korner, and Jack Bruce. Founder&member of several British blues bands including The Groundhogs, Tramp, The Sunflower Blues Band and The De Luxe Blues Band, Hall has worked and recorded with artists such as Peter Green, Danny Kirwan and Mick Fleetwood, of Fleetwood Mac, and is also a long serving member of Savoy Brown, and guests with The Blues Band, featuring Paul Jones, Dave Kelly and Tom McGuinness. ![]() Mark and Bob hanging out at Bob's house in Sheffield, England telling stories about the famous and infamous in UK music. Here’s Magic Dick in 2009 performing his famous “Whammer Jammer” instrumental, with Tommy Castro on guitar, Chris Sandoval on drums, and Scot Sutherland on bass.#ukblues #bluesharmonica #bluespiano #petergreen #fleetwoodmac patent for an improved harp they call the “Magic Harmonica.” In 1992, he and musician Pierre Beauregard were awarded a U.S. “My mother bought me a Marine Band harmonica, which is the very same harp that I play today.” He’s been in love with the instrument all his life. “When I was three years old, I had a pretty bad case of the flu,” Magic Dick told in 2009. The band fused Chicago blues with classic jazz, and released two albums: “Bluestime” (1994) and “Little Car Blues” (1996). In the early ’90s, Salwitz formed Bluestime with John Geils, his former college schoolmate from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. If lightweight tunes like “Centerfold” and “Freeze Frame” are the only songs that come to mind when you think J.Geils Band, then you need to discover the roof-raising music that made this group one of the hottest good-time bar bands of the ’70s. Other members included founder and guitarist John Geils (who passed away on April 11, 2017), bassist Danny Klein, drummer Stephen Jo Bladd, and keyboardist Seth Justman. In The Rolling Stone Record Guide, music journalist Dave Marsh described Magic Dick as possibly “the best white musician to ever play blues harmonica.” His harp playing, coupled with the jiving vocals and showmanship of frontman Peter Wolf, fueled the J. In the early days, they jammed with such blues greats as James Cotton, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Buddy Guy and Junior Wells. Today’s the 72nd birthday of the man who helped put the whammer in the jammer of the J.Geils Band - from the group’s 1965 origins in Worcester, Massachusetts, through their breakup in 1985. And Richard Salwitz is one of the best - harmonica players, that is. With a nickname like “Magic Dick” you’d better be damn good at what you do.
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