Mel Smith & The Night Riders
Mel Smith & The Night Riders
Genres: rockabilly, Garage Rock, psychadelic, 60's garage
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About Mel Smith & The Night Riders
The Night Riders (alternative spellings: The Nite Riders, The Nightriders, etc.) were the backing band for Doc Starkes. Their line up was: James "Doc" Starkes (bass, trombone), Melvin Smith (vocals, baritone saxophone), Harry Van Walls (piano), Harry Crafton (guitar, vocals), Joe Sewell (tenor saxophone) and Jimmy Johnson (drums). They recorded more than a dozen singles between 1954 and 1960. Before forming this group, all the members had attended several studio sessions and some of them had also done solo recordings. Van Walls had appeared on numerous Atlantic r'n'b-hits since the late 1940s (Ruth Brown, Joe Turner, Sticks McGhee, Joe Morris, Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters, The Clovers etc.), and Harry Crafton had worked with Doc Bagby, The Jive-Tones, The Sonotones and The Craft Tones. Joe Sewell had recorded with Tiny Grimes' and Harry Crafton's Orchestras, and Melvin Smith with Clyde "Blow Top" Lynn & his House Rockers and Big John Greer.
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