Michael Barclay
Michael Barclay
Genres: blues, USA
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About Michael Barclay
See Also: http://www.last.fm/music/The+Michael+Barclay+Blues+Band Michael worked with Chuck Berry in the late sixties on the east coast and also recorded at Electric Lady Studios for Michael Jeffries (Hendrix manager). In the seventies, after moving west, Michael joined both Banana, keyboardist for the Youngbloods, in his band. Michael worked as a side man with jazz singer, Randy Crawford ("Street Life") - picture below. In addition to gigs at major venues, her band also opened for Ronnie Laws, Herbie Hancock, Eddie Harris, Stanley Turentine and other jazz luminaries. For two years, Michael worked with San Francisco organist, Merl Saunders with stints behind singing acts like Hodges, James, and Smith, and others. Michael performed and recorded with Bay area fusion group WBBH. Philip Elwood, in a San Francisco Examiner review of the WBBH record , wrote: "A beauty on the LP called 'Lover's Lullaby' features...Barclay on guitar. Barclay, an impressive front man and guitarist, also is an excellent singer." Michael composed the piece Elwood refers to. His compositions form most of the Michael Barclay Blues Band set list, 12 out of 13 tunes on the CD- Midnight Rendezvous, and, 13 of 14 tunes on the new CD, Soul Patch. After gigs with Dorothy Morrison ("Oh happy day") in the notorious Marin jam band, Fast Company, and WBBH, Michael formed and recorded The MICHAEL BARCLAY BLUES BAND. Recently, Michael backed Julian Lage, Norton Buffalo, Nick Gravenites, Sarah Baker, Stu Blank and others. He produced the most recent recordings of the late Pattie Santos (It's a Beautiful Day). Michael was a featured performer at the Russian River Blues Festival, in June 1996; The Sonoma County Blues Festival 1991 and recently 1998, where the band was received enthusiastically. MICHAEL HAS SHARED THE BILL WITH (among others): Robben Ford Delbert McClinton Roy Rogers Joe Louis Walker John Mayall Roy Buchanan Nick Gravenites Mark Naftalin Etta James Ronnie Earl Elvin Bishop Coco Montoya W.C. Clark Terry Evans Johnnie Johnson James Armstrong http://sonic.net/~michaelb/bio.html
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Michael Barclay — Top 3 songs
| Artist | Song title | Like / Dislike | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Barclay | A Diary Of The Blues | ||
| Michael Barclay | Don't Want To Touch That Woman | ||
| Michael Barclay | Desparate Man |