BLUES: SONGS OF THE DAY
THE ARTIST IS: PAT TRAVERS
THE SONG IS: "NASTY DOGS AND FUNKY KINGS"
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Pat Travers ('Sounds' 11.5.77, scan)
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With his hard, edgy tone, rough and rowdy vocals, and barroom boogie aesthetic, Canadian singer, guitarist, and keyboardist Pat Travers is a fine example of a Canadian bluesy hard rock act. He arrived during the '70s heyday of hard blues-rocking guitar heroes. His eight-album run for Polydor -- from his eponymous 1976 debut through 1984's Hot Shot -- netted seven Top 200 chart placements and two Top 40 singles, including the party anthem classic "Boom Boom (Out Go the Lights)." Subsequently, he placed four singles in the Hot 100, and two more in the upper rungs of the Mainstream Rock Songs charts. Travers is equally adept at playing funk, jazz, and prog. He has toured almost annually for more than 40 years, playing more than 150 dates per year. Paul Gilbert has referred to Travers as a "guitar god" and Kirk Hammett of Metallica has cited him as one of his favourite guitar players.
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Why hello. Come here often?
~smile~
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Ronnie “The Hawk” Hawkins Dead at 87
“The Hawk” has flown.
Ronnie “The Hawk” Hawkins, the U.S.-born, Canadian-based rockabilly singer who brought together the group that became the Band, has died.
Hawkins was 87 and died May 29 after a long illness, his wife, Wanda, told the Canadian Press.
“He went peacefully and he looked as handsome as ever,” Wanda Hawkins told the CP.
“Heaven just got rompin',” Sebastian Bach tweeted, a reference to Hawkins’ other nickname, Rompin’ Ronnie.
Over his decades-long career, musicians including Roy Buchanan and Pat Travers passed through his band, the Hawks. But Hawkins is best known as the man who brought together the band - Levon Helm, Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel and Garth Hudson - that became the Band.
“My heart sank when I heard ‘the Hawk’ just flew into the sunset,” Robertson said in a statement.
“Ronnie was the godfather. The one who made this all happen.”
Burton Cummings said Hawkins’ Mary Lou was the inspiration for the Guess Who’s “No Time” and said, “it was virtually impossible ever to find anyone who didn't like Ronnie.”
“He could always make you howl with laughter. … He'll be sorely missed by so many,” Cummings wrote on Twitter.
5/29/22
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PAT TRAVERS BAND AT THE PALLADIUM. NEW YORK, 4/19/80.
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BLUES: SONGS OF THE DAY
THE ARTIST IS: PAT TRAVERS
THE SONG IS: "BOOM, BOOM OUT GO THE LIGHTS"
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Friday, April 12, 2024: 3pm ET: Feature Artist: Pat Travers
Patrick Henry Travers (born April 12, 1954) is a Canadian rock guitarist, singer and songwriter who began his recording career in the mid-1970s.
Travers was born and raised in Toronto. Soon after picking up the guitar at age 12, he saw Jimi Hendrix perform in Ottawa. Travers began playing in bands early in his teens; his first bands were the Music Machine (not to be confused with the Californian…
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2:30 PM EST March 4, 2024:
Pat Travers - "Is This Love"
From the album Crash And Burn
(1980)
Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm
Bob Marley & The Wailers cover
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