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- Subject: Re: Roger Hawkins (was live Traffic '69?)
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- jimh@pongo.Eng.Sun.COM (jim hori) writes:
-
- >In article <BzLErv.Kpo@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> gsu0013@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Michael Kaminsky) writes:
- >>"Welcome to the Canteen" is one of the finest live Traffic stuff I've
- >>ever heard! I couldn't disagree with you more! Classic tunes such as
-
- >One of the reasons why this album kicks is the rhythm section
- >which Winwood and company hired away from Muscle Shoals. The
- >drummer, Roger Hawkins, was one of the best pop music drummers
- >ever, and can be heard on all the best Aretha, Wilson Pickett,
- >Solomon Burke, James and Bobby Purify, etc. recordings of the
- >soul era.
-
- yes! hawkins played with Eric Clapton for a very short while in the early
- 80's (he's on Another Ticket or one of those early 80 EC releases)
- but dropped out when the tour came
-
- EC had Donald "Duck" Dunn for quite a few years and that's probably
- where the connection came from (muscle shoals dudes)
-
- fish
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- p.s. i love watching those guys in the Blues Brothers movie!
-
- they are also all on Levon Helm's (of the Band - my favorite) first
- two solo albums (which were just released on CD)
-
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