The Boz Scaggs Band - I,ll Be Long Gone

The Boz Scaggs band performs a gospel-tinged classic during one of the final five nights of shows leading up the closing of San Francisco's Fillmore West on July 4, 1971

   I,ll Be Long Gone

Boz Scaggs is the second studio album by American musician Boz Scaggs, released in 1969 by Atlantic Records. A stylistically diverse album, Boz Scaggs incorporates several genres, including Americana, blue-eyed soul, country, and rhythm and blues. The lyrics are about typical themes found in blues songs, such as love, regret, guilt, and loss. Scaggs recorded the album at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio with producer Jann Wenner, the co-founder of Rolling Stone magazine. The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section heavily contributed to the album, which included a young Duane Allman, before his rise to fame with the Allman Brothers Band. 

Boz Scaggs was mostly ignored by listeners and critics upon release, and only sold around 20,000 copies within its first few years. The critics that did review the album enjoyed it, and commended the musicianship between Scaggs and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section. Boz Scaggs continues to receive praise in retrospective reviews, with some critics calling it an underrated album from the 1960s. In 2012, Boz Scaggs was ranked at number 496 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

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Rory Gallagher - Messin' with the Kid

                                                              Madrid - March 7th 1975

                                                                    Messin' with the Kid

Rory, with in my opinion his best backing band. During this period I saw them perform in De Doelen in Rotterdam, a memorable concert!!

                   Gary McAvoy -bass

                   Lou Martin -keys(12 August 1949  - 17 August 2012) 

                  Rory -(Ballyshannon, 2 maart1948- Londen, 14 juni1995) 

                  Rod' de'Ath - drums  ( Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire, 18 juni 1950 - 1 augustus 2014)

Walter "Brownie" McGhee - (Don,t)Move to Kansas City

Walter "Brownie" McGhee (November 30, 1915, Knoxville, Tennessee - February 16, 1996, Oakland, California) was an American folk and blues singer and guitarist. He became known for his collaboration with harmonica player Sonny Terry.

 McGhee was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and was struck by polio as a child. As a result, he had problems walking. Even as a child he devoted a lot of time to music, singing in the Golden Voices Gospel Quartet. He also taught himself to play the guitar. When he was 22, he started traveling as a musician and met Blind Boy Fuller, whose guitar playing had a great influence on him (so much so that McGhee took over Fuller's name after Fuller's death in 1941, and as Blind Boy Fuller II by the life went). During that time, McGhee made several recordings, but greater success did not come until he went to New York in 1942, where he worked with Sonny Terry. Together they experienced great successes that would continue until the early 1970s. When interest in folk music revived in the 1960s, Terry and McGhee were featured guests at concerts and festivals.

         One of McGhee's last concert appearances was at the 1995 Chicago Blues Festival.

    He died of stomach cancer on February 16, 1996, in Oakland, California, at the age of 80