10239 - THE AMOS GARRETT DOUG SAHM GENE TAYLOR BAND - THE RETURN OF THE FORMERLY BROTHERS (1987)
THE AMOS GARRETT DOUG SAHM GENE TAYLOR BAND
''THE RETURN OF THE FORMERLY BROTHERS''
1987
50:57
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1 Smack Dab in the Middle (Chuck Calhoun) 03:49
2 Big Mamou (Link Davis) 02:55
3 Teardrops On You Letter (Henry Glover) 04:07
4 Drunk (Jimmy Liggins) 04:12
5 Don't Tell Me (Amos Garrett, Gene Taylor) 03:20
6 Coming Back Home (Gene Taylor) 02:05
7 Sure Is A Good Thing (Gene Taylor) 03:45
8 Amarillo Highway (Terry Allen) 04:11
9 Banks of the Old Panchartrain (Ramona Vincent, Hank Williams) 03:24
10 Just Like A Woman (Bob Dylan) 05:19
11 Gene's Boogie (Gene Taylor) 03:07
12 Queen of the Okanagan (Amos Garrett, Doug Sahm) 04:06
13 Louis Riel (Doug Sahm) (Bonus) 03:43
14 Doug Sahm Interview (Bonus) 02:46
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Stephanie Davis/Fiddle, Vocals
Ernie Durawa/Drums
Amos Garrett/Arranger, Guitar, Vocals
Kit Johnson/Bass Guitar, Vocals
Michelle Josef/Drums, Vocals
Augie Meyers/Accordion, Piano
Queen Ida/Accordion, Vocals
Doug Sahm/Arranger, Dobro, Guitar, Guitar (Steel), Organ, Vocals
Speedy Sparks/Bass Guitar
Gene Taylor/Arranger, Piano, Vocals
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BIOGRAPHY/AMG (AMOS GARRETT)
Linda Seida
Detroit native Amos Garrett began working as a professional guitarist north of the border in Toronto. There he played with the Dirty Shames, a folk jug band, before moving on to the country-rock-oriented Great Speckled Bird at the invitation of Ian and Sylvia Tyson. Maria Muldaur's "Midnight at the Oasis" featured his guitar playing, as did Anne Murray's "Snowbird." Other artists who utilized his talent include Stevie Wonder, Emmylou Harris, Jesse Winchester, and Paul Butterfield. His studio work led him to California, and he continued to record with other artists. Later, with the Eh Team backing him, Garrett also put out his own recordings, more than half a dozen, on Stony Plain Records. In 1989, his album The Return of the Formerly Brothers, garnered a Juno Award. The release also featured Gene Taylor (formerly of Downchild, the Blasters, and later the Fabulous Thunderbirds) and Doug Sahm of the Texas Tornados. Garrett and the Eh Team continue to play night spots in Canada; he resided in Alberta. He toured Japan in 1990 with stops in Kyoto, Osaka, and Tokyo. The concerts there found their way onto a live album in 2001.
Garrett released Acoustic Album in 2004, which featured his instrument in a meld of swing, country, blues, and American Songbook standards, while he continued to tour.
In 2004, he employed a full band and released one of his finest offerings in Get Way Back: A Tribute to Percy Mayfield, which featured unique yet respectful interpretations of 11 of the blues songwriter’s tunes. Garrett toured the album at festivals across three continents.
With most of his time spent touring, Garrett didn’t release another album for five years. When he did, it was a concert recording entitled Jazzblues with his trio -- guitarist Keith Smith and string bassist Greg Carroll. The album also featured guest vocal performances from Roberta Donnay and John Hyde. It was followed two years later by Guitar Heroes and another live date that featured him co-billed with axe slingers James Burton, Albert Lee, and David Wilcox.
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BIOGRAPHY/AMG (DOUG SAHM)
Richard Skelly
Guitarist, composer, arranger, and songwriter Doug Sahm was a knowledgeable music historian and veteran performer equally comfortable in a range of styles, including Texas blues, country, rock & roll, Western swing, and Cajun. Born November 6, 1941, in San Antonio, TX, he began his performing career at age nine when he was featured on a San Antonio area radio station, playing steel guitar. Sahm began recording for a procession of small labels (Harlem, Warrior, Renner, and Personality) in 1955, with "A Real American Joe," released under the name Little Doug Sahm. Three years later he was leading a group called the Pharoahs. Sahm recorded a series of singles for Texas-based record companies including "Crazy Daisy" (1959), "Sapphire" (1961), and "If You Ever Need Me" (1964).
After being prompted in 1965 to assemble a group by producer Huey Meaux, Sahm asked his friends Augie Meyers (keyboards), Frank Morin (saxophone), Harvey Kagan (bass), and Johnny Perez (drums) if they would join him. Meaux gave the group the name the Sir Douglas Quintet. The group had some success on the radio with "The Rains Came," but Sahm later moved to California after the group broke up, where he formed the Honkey Blues Band. He re-formed the Sir Douglas Quintet in California and recorded a now-classic single, "Mendocino." The resulting album was a groundbreaking record in the then-emerging country-rock scene. the Sir Douglas Quintet followed Mendocino with Together After Five, another album that led them to a larger fan base.
But it was Atlantic Records producer Jerry Wexler who realized that country-rock sounds were coming into vogue (and there was no place in Nashville for people like Sahm), so he signed both Sahm and Willie Nelson. One of his greatest albums, Doug Sahm and Band (1973, Atlantic), was recorded in New York City with Bob Dylan, Dr. John, and accordionist Flaco Jiménez, and a resulting single, "Is Anybody Going to San Antone?" had some radio success. the Sir Douglas Quintet got back together again to record two more albums, Wanted Very Much Alive and Back To The 'Dillo.
Among Sahm's most essential blues records are Hell of a Spell (1980, reissued in 1999), a blues album dedicated to Guitar Slim, and his Grammy-nominated studio album for Antone's, The Last Real Texas Blues Band. For his other material, there are several good compilations, including The Best of Doug Sahm (Rhino). SDQ '98 followed. Sahm died November 18, 1999; the posthumous The Return of Wayne Douglas appeared the following summer.
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BIOGRAPHY/WIKIPEDIA (GENE TAYLOR)
Gene Taylor (born July 2, 1952, Norwalk, California, United States) is an American blues, rock, and boogie-woogie pianist.
Taylor began his musical training as a drummer at age eight[1] but two years later he had picked up both the guitar and his initial piano skills from boogie-woogie pianist-neighbours. Around the age of 16 he began working with some of the big names in the West Coast blues scene including Big Joe Turner and T-Bone Walker. In the mid-seventies he joined the James Harman Band and had a stint as pianist for boogie group Canned Heat between November 1974 and May 1976. From 1981 to 1984 he toured with The Blasters, and in 1986 finally recorded his first solo album, Handmade. His The Return of the Formerly Brothers, recorded with Amos Garrett and Doug Sahm in 1987, won a Juno Award the following year.
From 1993 to 2007, Taylor played with The Fabulous Thunderbirds amongst various other projects. He recorded an eponymous second solo album for Pacific Blues in 2003 partly accompanied by James Harman and Bill Bateman. This album included a version of "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie".
Since 2007, he has been based in Belgium, playing and recording with Fried Bourbon, CC Jerome's Jet Setters, Dave Alvin and Jo' Buddy. Currently he is touring as the Gene Tayler Trio, with drummer Nico Vanhove, and the guitarist Bart De Mulder. He played at the Brussels Boogie-Woogie Festival of 2012, which took place at the Théâtre St Michel on November 24.
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''THE RETURN OF THE FORMERLY BROTHERS''
1987
50:57
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1 Smack Dab in the Middle (Chuck Calhoun) 03:49
2 Big Mamou (Link Davis) 02:55
3 Teardrops On You Letter (Henry Glover) 04:07
4 Drunk (Jimmy Liggins) 04:12
5 Don't Tell Me (Amos Garrett, Gene Taylor) 03:20
6 Coming Back Home (Gene Taylor) 02:05
7 Sure Is A Good Thing (Gene Taylor) 03:45
8 Amarillo Highway (Terry Allen) 04:11
9 Banks of the Old Panchartrain (Ramona Vincent, Hank Williams) 03:24
10 Just Like A Woman (Bob Dylan) 05:19
11 Gene's Boogie (Gene Taylor) 03:07
12 Queen of the Okanagan (Amos Garrett, Doug Sahm) 04:06
13 Louis Riel (Doug Sahm) (Bonus) 03:43
14 Doug Sahm Interview (Bonus) 02:46
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Stephanie Davis/Fiddle, Vocals
Ernie Durawa/Drums
Amos Garrett/Arranger, Guitar, Vocals
Kit Johnson/Bass Guitar, Vocals
Michelle Josef/Drums, Vocals
Augie Meyers/Accordion, Piano
Queen Ida/Accordion, Vocals
Doug Sahm/Arranger, Dobro, Guitar, Guitar (Steel), Organ, Vocals
Speedy Sparks/Bass Guitar
Gene Taylor/Arranger, Piano, Vocals
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BIOGRAPHY/AMG (AMOS GARRETT)
Linda Seida
Detroit native Amos Garrett began working as a professional guitarist north of the border in Toronto. There he played with the Dirty Shames, a folk jug band, before moving on to the country-rock-oriented Great Speckled Bird at the invitation of Ian and Sylvia Tyson. Maria Muldaur's "Midnight at the Oasis" featured his guitar playing, as did Anne Murray's "Snowbird." Other artists who utilized his talent include Stevie Wonder, Emmylou Harris, Jesse Winchester, and Paul Butterfield. His studio work led him to California, and he continued to record with other artists. Later, with the Eh Team backing him, Garrett also put out his own recordings, more than half a dozen, on Stony Plain Records. In 1989, his album The Return of the Formerly Brothers, garnered a Juno Award. The release also featured Gene Taylor (formerly of Downchild, the Blasters, and later the Fabulous Thunderbirds) and Doug Sahm of the Texas Tornados. Garrett and the Eh Team continue to play night spots in Canada; he resided in Alberta. He toured Japan in 1990 with stops in Kyoto, Osaka, and Tokyo. The concerts there found their way onto a live album in 2001.
Garrett released Acoustic Album in 2004, which featured his instrument in a meld of swing, country, blues, and American Songbook standards, while he continued to tour.
In 2004, he employed a full band and released one of his finest offerings in Get Way Back: A Tribute to Percy Mayfield, which featured unique yet respectful interpretations of 11 of the blues songwriter’s tunes. Garrett toured the album at festivals across three continents.
With most of his time spent touring, Garrett didn’t release another album for five years. When he did, it was a concert recording entitled Jazzblues with his trio -- guitarist Keith Smith and string bassist Greg Carroll. The album also featured guest vocal performances from Roberta Donnay and John Hyde. It was followed two years later by Guitar Heroes and another live date that featured him co-billed with axe slingers James Burton, Albert Lee, and David Wilcox.
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BIOGRAPHY/AMG (DOUG SAHM)
Richard Skelly
Guitarist, composer, arranger, and songwriter Doug Sahm was a knowledgeable music historian and veteran performer equally comfortable in a range of styles, including Texas blues, country, rock & roll, Western swing, and Cajun. Born November 6, 1941, in San Antonio, TX, he began his performing career at age nine when he was featured on a San Antonio area radio station, playing steel guitar. Sahm began recording for a procession of small labels (Harlem, Warrior, Renner, and Personality) in 1955, with "A Real American Joe," released under the name Little Doug Sahm. Three years later he was leading a group called the Pharoahs. Sahm recorded a series of singles for Texas-based record companies including "Crazy Daisy" (1959), "Sapphire" (1961), and "If You Ever Need Me" (1964).
After being prompted in 1965 to assemble a group by producer Huey Meaux, Sahm asked his friends Augie Meyers (keyboards), Frank Morin (saxophone), Harvey Kagan (bass), and Johnny Perez (drums) if they would join him. Meaux gave the group the name the Sir Douglas Quintet. The group had some success on the radio with "The Rains Came," but Sahm later moved to California after the group broke up, where he formed the Honkey Blues Band. He re-formed the Sir Douglas Quintet in California and recorded a now-classic single, "Mendocino." The resulting album was a groundbreaking record in the then-emerging country-rock scene. the Sir Douglas Quintet followed Mendocino with Together After Five, another album that led them to a larger fan base.
But it was Atlantic Records producer Jerry Wexler who realized that country-rock sounds were coming into vogue (and there was no place in Nashville for people like Sahm), so he signed both Sahm and Willie Nelson. One of his greatest albums, Doug Sahm and Band (1973, Atlantic), was recorded in New York City with Bob Dylan, Dr. John, and accordionist Flaco Jiménez, and a resulting single, "Is Anybody Going to San Antone?" had some radio success. the Sir Douglas Quintet got back together again to record two more albums, Wanted Very Much Alive and Back To The 'Dillo.
Among Sahm's most essential blues records are Hell of a Spell (1980, reissued in 1999), a blues album dedicated to Guitar Slim, and his Grammy-nominated studio album for Antone's, The Last Real Texas Blues Band. For his other material, there are several good compilations, including The Best of Doug Sahm (Rhino). SDQ '98 followed. Sahm died November 18, 1999; the posthumous The Return of Wayne Douglas appeared the following summer.
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BIOGRAPHY/WIKIPEDIA (GENE TAYLOR)
Gene Taylor (born July 2, 1952, Norwalk, California, United States) is an American blues, rock, and boogie-woogie pianist.
Taylor began his musical training as a drummer at age eight[1] but two years later he had picked up both the guitar and his initial piano skills from boogie-woogie pianist-neighbours. Around the age of 16 he began working with some of the big names in the West Coast blues scene including Big Joe Turner and T-Bone Walker. In the mid-seventies he joined the James Harman Band and had a stint as pianist for boogie group Canned Heat between November 1974 and May 1976. From 1981 to 1984 he toured with The Blasters, and in 1986 finally recorded his first solo album, Handmade. His The Return of the Formerly Brothers, recorded with Amos Garrett and Doug Sahm in 1987, won a Juno Award the following year.
From 1993 to 2007, Taylor played with The Fabulous Thunderbirds amongst various other projects. He recorded an eponymous second solo album for Pacific Blues in 2003 partly accompanied by James Harman and Bill Bateman. This album included a version of "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie".
Since 2007, he has been based in Belgium, playing and recording with Fried Bourbon, CC Jerome's Jet Setters, Dave Alvin and Jo' Buddy. Currently he is touring as the Gene Tayler Trio, with drummer Nico Vanhove, and the guitarist Bart De Mulder. He played at the Brussels Boogie-Woogie Festival of 2012, which took place at the Théâtre St Michel on November 24.
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