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Before his attention was diverted toward recording multi-layered hits for the pop market, he made his name as a brilliant jazz guitarist whose exposure on coast-to-coast radio programs guaranteed a wide audience of susceptible young musicians. Heavily influenced by Django Reinhardt at first, Paul eventually developed an astonishingly fluid, hard-swinging style of his own, one that featured extremely rapid runs, fluttered and repeated single notes, and chunking rhythm support, mixing in country & western licks and humorous crowd-pleasing effects. No doubt his brassy style gave critics a bad time, but the gregarious, garrulous Paul didn't much care; he was bent on showing his audiences a good time. \r\nThough he couldn't read music, Paul had a magnificent ear and innate sense of structure, conceiving complete arrangements entirely in his head before he set them down track by track on disc or tape. Even on his many pop hits for Capitol in the late '40s and early '50s, one can always hear a jazz sensibility at work in the rapid lead solo lines and bluesy bent notes -- and no one could close a record as suavely as Les. And of course, his early use of the electric guitar and pioneering experiments with multi-track recording, solid-body guitar design, and electronic effects devices have filtered down to countless jazz musicians. Among the jazzers who acknowledge his influence are George Benson, Al DiMeola, Stanley Jordan (whose neck-tapping sound is very reminiscent of Paul's records), Pat Martino, and Bucky Pizzarelli. \r\nPaul's interest in music began when he took up the harmonica at age eight, inspired by a Waukesha ditch digger. Paul's only formal training consisted of a few unsuccessful piano lessons as a child -- and although he later took up the piano again professionally, exposure to a few Art Tatum records put an end to that. After a fling with the banjo, Paul took up the guitar under the influences of Nick Lucas, Eddie Lang, and regional players like Pie Plant Pete and Sunny Joe Wolverton, who gave Les the stage name Rhubarb Red. At 17, Les played with Rube Tronson's Cowboys and then dropped out of high school to join Wolverton's radio band in St. Louis on KMOX. By 1934, he was in Chicago, and before long, he took on a dual radio persona, doing a hillbilly act as Rhubarb Red and playing jazz as Les Paul, often with an imitation Django Reinhardt quartet. His first records in 1936 were issued on the Montgomery Ward label as Rhubarb Red and on Decca backing blues shouter Georgia White on acoustic guitar. Dissatisfied with the electric guitars circulating in the mid-'30s, Paul, assisted by tech-minded friends, began experimenting with designs of his own. \r\nBy 1937, Paul had formed a trio, and the following year, he moved to New York and landed a featured spot with Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians, which gave him nationwide exposure through their broadcasts. That job ended in 1941 shortly after he was nearly electrocuted in an accident during a jam session in his Queens basement. After a long recovery period and more radio jobs, Paul moved to Hollywood in 1943, where he formed a new trio that made several V-Discs and transcriptions for MacGregor (some available on Laserlight). As a last-minute substitute for Oscar Moore, Paul played in the inaugural Jazz at the Philharmonic concert in Los Angeles on July 2, 1944; his witty chase sequence with Nat Cole on \"Blues\" and fleet work elsewhere (now on Verve's Jazz at the Philharmonic: The First Concert) are the most indelible reminders of his prowess as a jazzman. Later that year, Paul hooked up with Bing Crosby, who featured the Trio on his radio show, sponsored Les' recording experiments, and recorded six sides with him, including a 1945 number one hit, \"It's Been a Long, Long Time.\" On his own, Paul also made several records with his Trio for Decca from 1944 to 1947, including jazz, country, and Hawaiian sides, and backed singers like Dick Haymes, Helen Forrest, and the Andrews Sisters. \r\nMeanwhile, in 1947, after experimenting in his garage studio and discarding some 500 test discs, Paul came up with a kooky version of \"Lover\" for eight electric guitars, all played by himself with dizzying multi-speed effects. He talked Capitol Records into releasing this futuristic disc, which became a hit the following year. Alas, a bad automobile accident in Oklahoma in January 1948 put Les out of action again for a year and a half; as an alternative to amputation, his right arm had to be set at a permanent right angle suitable for guitar playing. After his recovery, he teamed up with his soon-to-be second wife, a young country singer/guitarist named Colleen Summers whom he renamed Mary Ford, and reeled off a long string of spectacular multi-layered pop discs for Capitol, making smash hits out of jazz standards like \"How High the Moon\" and \"Tiger Rag.\" The hits ran out suddenly in 1955, and not even a Mitch Miller-promoted stint at Columbia from 1958 to 1963 could get the streak going again. After a bitter divorce from Ford in 1964, a gig in Tokyo the following year, and an LP of mostly remakes for London in 1967, Paul went into semi-retirement from music. \r\nAside from a pair of wonderfully relaxed country/jazz albums with Chet Atkins for RCA in 1976 and 1978 and a blazing duet with DiMeola on \"Spanish Eyes\" from the latter's 1980 Splendido Hotel CD, Paul was long absent from the record scene (some rumored sessions for Epic in the '90s have not materialized). However, a 1991 four-CD retrospective, The Legend & the Legacy, contained an entire disc of 34 unreleased tracks, including a breathtaking electrified tribute to the Benny Goodman Sextet, \"Cookin'.\" More significantly, Paul began a regular series of Monday night appearances at New York's Fat Tuesday's club in 1984 (from 1996, Les held court at the Iridium club across from Lincoln Center), attended by visiting celebrities and fans for whom he became an icon in the '80s. \r\nIn 2005 American Made World Played by Les Paul & Friends was issued. Unlike most albums featuring \"famous\" friends, this contained some exceptional music. The list of contributors was impressive: Keith Richards, Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, Richie Sambora, Jeff Beck, and even a sampled Sam Cooke. One of the highlights was a duet with Steve Miller (who Les Paul had babysat for in 1950) on \"Fly Like an Eagle.\" Although arthritis slowed Paul's playing down in his later years, he continued to perform, with his repertoire largely unchanged from the '30s and '40s, practically up to his death due to complications from pneumonia in 2009 at age 94. At any given gig, one could still learn a lot from the Wizard of Waukesha. A remarkably gifted and farsighted guitarist, Paul’s contribution to popular music must inevitably center upon his pioneering work on multi-tracking and his creation of the solid-body guitar. It would be sad, however, if his efforts in these directions wholly concealed his considerable abilities as a performer. ~ Richard S. 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The pair met in the late '40s (while Ford was a country singer), and quickly began reeling off a string of hit jazz standards, their biggest hit being \"How High the Moon.\" From 1953 through 1960, Paul and Ford hosted their very own television program, The Les Paul and Mary Ford at Home Show, while the duo continued to record together until they divorced in 1964. 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His high-profile stints with Canned Heat and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers in the 1980s resulted from a decade of backing blues and R&B performers including Joe Tex, Percy Mayfield, Big Mama Thornton, Lowell Fulsom, and John Lee Hooker. After leaving Mayall's employ in 1989, Trout led his own bands and started recording as a bandleader. He issued acclaimed early albums for European labels including Telling Stories in 1991 and Transition in 1992. Issued in the U.S., 1994's Tellin' Stories for RCA/Silvertone imprint drew critical notice, while his fortunes in Europe were far greater. 2000’s Live Trout, was his first charting album Stateside. By the time he issued 2009's Unspoiled by Progress, his offerings regularly notched spots in the Blues Albums Top Ten. After the 2013 U.S. issue of Luther's Blues: A Tribute to Luther Allison peaked at four, Trout was sidelined with cirrhosis and Hepatitis C; he required an organ transplant. During recuperation he penned Rescued from Reality: The Life and Times of Walter Trout with journalist Henry Yates. He returned with 2015’s number two-charting Battle Scars and resumed touring -- his first gig was a blues festival at the Royal Albert Hall. 2017’s We’re All in This Together marked his first number one outing, a run he continued with Survivor Blues two years later. \r\nTrout was born in New Jersey in 1951. He began playing guitar in his early teens and by 1973, with a bellyfull of experience playing in local bands, he moved to Los Angeles, where he slept on couches and scrabbled for work. His first gig in the City of Angels was as a lead singer in a country band. With his third paycheck he bought the Fender Stratocaster that continues to adorn his album covers. He met guitarist Jesse Ed Davis at a party and joined his band; Trout spent two years apprenticing with a master. Thanks to contacts he made while working with Davis and a burgeoning reputation as a gifted axe slinger, Trout began working with Big Mama Thorton, Lowell Fulsom, and Joe Tex. After a stint with John Lee Hooker's band, Trout was invited to replace the recently deceased Bob Hite in Canned Heat in 1981. No stranger to bad habits and substances, he was a natural fit for the hard-living West Coast boogie ensemble. Two years later, addicted to drugs and alcohol, he filled in one night for an ailing John Mayall. Trout's impassioned performance was so impressive, the British blues legend invited him to join the Bluesbreakers. He spent five years with Mayall and was lionized by the music press. \r\nIn 1989 he was spotted by a Danish concert promoter who agreed to finance a solo tour. He agreed and informed Mayall he was leaving -- a decision friends and musicians called career suicide. After assembling a backing band, Trout released Life in the Jungle for an independent label in 1990. After signing to Elektra Denmark, he followed it with Prisoner of a Dream in 1991, followed by 1992's Live (No More Fish Jokes). In 1992 Trout signed a non-exclusive deal with Germany's Provogue label and released the acclaimed Transition. He signed a one-off with RCA's Silvertone for 1994's Tellin' Stories. Though the record sold well and received universally positive critical notice and selective airplay, it did not translate into the touring receipts he saw in Europe. After the release of 1997's Positively Beale Street, his domestic fortunes improved: the clubs were bigger and festival invites were more frequent. \r\nTrout continued his steady release stream: a self-titled offering -- one of his best -- was issued by Ruf Records a year later while, Livin' Every Day from 1999 showcased his songwriting prowess. With his Free Radicals outfit he issued Live Trout in 2000 (recorded at the Tampa Bay Blues Fest) and saw his first American chart success: it peaked at 15 on the Blues Albums list. Each of his recordings since has placed on the that list. The guitarist loved live sound, and for 2001's Go the Distance and 2003's Relentless, he recorded live-in-studio for an invited audience. With 2006's Full Circle, Trout realized a dream: He cut an album with some of the musicians he most admired, including John Mayall, Coco Montoya, and Joe Bonamassa. The 2009 compilation Unspoiled by Progress was a handpicked retrospective of live tracks recorded on the road throughout his career; he followed with the number-six charting Common Ground in 2011. A year later, Blues for the Modern Daze, showcased 15 originals based on his blues influences. The following year Luther's Blues, a tribute to late friend and mentor Luther Allison, was released in the U.S. (it had been released in Europe three years earlier), resulting in a number four chart peak. \r\nTrout had been experiencing health problems for some time, the end result of years of substance and alcohol abuse. He discovered his liver was failing in late 2013, and went on a transplant list early the next year. On May 26, 2014 he underwent successful transplant surgery. Two weeks later, Provogue issued Blues Came Callin', a recording that marked his 25th anniversary as a solo artist. Trout continued to recover, albeit with some complications that required another surgery. \r\nA series of interviews with British journalist Henry Yates during recuperation resulted in the autobiography Rescued Reality: The Life and Times of Walter Trout, published in early 2015. Less than a year after his transplant, he cut another album entitled Battle Scars, which was released in the fall and peaked at number two. He also performed at a London blues festival at the Royal Albert Hall and received a prolonged, dramatic standing ovation. 2017 saw the release of the aptly titled long-envisioned We're All in This Together, that featured guest spots from Mayall, Bonamassa, Randy Bachman, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Sonny Landreth, Warren Haynes, and more. It marked his first number one. After more global touring, Trout went back into the studio. He pared everything down to its essence and cut Survivor Blues, a collection of obscure blues covers he considered no less important than the standards. It too peaked in the top spot on the Blues Albums chart.\r\nIn early 2020, Trout and his band entered Robbie Krieger's private studio and proceeded to shake things up. While the proceedings retained his blues origins, Trout also showcased the influence that songwriters such as John Lennon, Neil Young, and Bob Dylan had on him. Employing lyrics that honestly delved into past issues with substances, mental health problems, and the loneliness of the road, Trout showcased his inner songwriter alongside the guitarist. Using all vintage guitars, he delivered tracks based in roots rock, psychedelia, folk, and modern Chicago blues. Entitled Ordinary Madness, he completed the album just days before the world shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic; it was released by Provogue in August. ~ Thom Jurek & Jason Ankeny","isGroup":false,"bornOrFormed":"March 6, 1951","name":"Walter Trout","editorialArtwork":{}}},{"id":"96235584","type":"artists","href":"/v1/catalog/us/artists/96235584?l=en-US","attributes":{"editorialArtwork":{},"artistBio":"The Nimmo Brothers are guitarists/vocalists Stevie and Alan Nimmo, plus their rhythm section of Sam Firth (bass) and Mark Barrett (drums). Based in Glasgow, Scotland, the Nimmo Brothers began mixing modern electric blues and rock & roll in 1997, and built an audience by touring the U.K. and Europe on the festival and club circuits. 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After Rod Stewart left the Jeff Beck Group in 1971, Beck never worked with a charismatic lead singer who could have helped sell his music to a wide audience. Furthermore, he was simply too idiosyncratic, moving from heavy metal to jazz fusion within a blink of an eye. As his career progressed, he became more fascinated by automobiles than guitars, releasing only one album during the course of the '90s. All the while, Beck retained the respect of fellow guitarists, who found his reclusiveness all the more alluring.\r\nBeck began his musical career following a short stint at London's Wimbledon Art College. He earned a reputation by supporting Lord Sutch, which helped him land the job as the Yardbirds' lead guitarist following the departure of Eric Clapton. Beck stayed with the Yardbirds for nearly two years, leaving in late 1966 with the pretense that he was retiring from music. He returned several months later with \"Love Is Blue,\" a single he played poorly because he detested the song. Later in 1967, he formed the Jeff Beck Group with vocalist Rod Stewart, bassist Ron Wood, and drummer Aynsley Dunbar, who was quickly replaced by Mickey Waller; keyboardist Nicky Hopkins joined in early 1968. With their crushingly loud reworkings of blues songs and vocal and guitar interplay, the Jeff Beck Group established the template for heavy metal. Neither of the band's records, Truth (1968) or Beck-Ola (a 1969 album that was recorded with new drummer Tony Newman), was particularly successful, and the bandmembers tended to fight regularly, especially on their frequent tours of the U.S. In 1970, Stewart and Wood left to join the Faces, and Beck broke up the group.\r\nBeck had intended to form a power trio with Vanilla Fudge members Carmine Appice (drums) and Tim Bogert (bass), but those plans were derailed when he suffered a serious car crash in 1970. By the time he recuperated in 1971, Bogart and Appice were playing in Cactus, so the guitarist formed a new version of the Jeff Beck Group. Featuring keyboardist Max Middleton, drummer Cozy Powell, bassist Clive Chaman, and vocalist Bobby Tench, the new band recorded Rough and Ready (1971) and Jeff Beck Group (1972). Neither album attracted much attention. Cactus dissolved in late 1972, and Beck, Bogert, and Appice formed a power trio the following year. The group's lone studio album -- a live record released in Japan but never in the U.K. or U.S. -- was widely panned due to its plodding arrangements and weak vocals, and the group disbanded the following year.\r\nFor about 18 months, Beck remained quiet, re-emerging in 1975 with Blow by Blow. Produced by George Martin, Blow by Blow was an all-instrumental jazz fusion album that received strong reviews. Beck collaborated with Jan Hammer, a former keyboardist for Mahavishnu Orchestra, for 1976's Wired, and supported the album with a co-headlining tour with Hammer's band. The tour was documented on the 1977 album Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group: Live. \r\nAfter the Hammer tour, Beck retired to his estate outside of London and remained quiet for three years. He returned in 1980 with There and Back, which featured contributions from Hammer. Following the tour for There and Back, Beck retired again, returning five years later with the slick, Nile Rodgers-produced Flash. A pop/rock album recorded with a variety of vocalists, Flash featured Beck's only hit single, the Stewart-sung \"People Get Ready,\" and also boasted \"Escape,\" which won the Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental. During 1987, he played lead guitar on Mick Jagger's second solo album, Primitive Cool. There was another long wait between Flash and 1989's Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop with Terry Bozzio and Tony Hymas. Though the album sold only moderately well, Guitar Shop received uniformly strong reviews and won the Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental. Beck supported the album with a tour, this time co-headlining with guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan. Again, Beck entered semi-retirement upon the completion of the tour.\r\nIn 1992, Beck played lead guitar on Roger Waters' comeback album, Amused to Death. A year later, he released Crazy Legs, a tribute to Gene Vincent and his lead guitarist, Cliff Gallup, which was recorded with Big Town Playboys. Beck remained quiet after the album's release prior to resurfacing in 1999 with Who Else! You Had It Coming followed in 2001 and his 14th release, Jeff, was issued on Epic two years later. An excellent live set, Performing This Week: Live at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, was released in 2008 by Eagle Records. Emotion & Commotion, Beck's first new studio album in seven years, appeared in the spring of 2010. It was greeted by considerable acclaim, including winning two Grammy Awards in 2011 for Best Pop Instrumental Performance and Best Rock Instrumental Performance. Appropriately, Beck released a live album called Live and Exclusive from the Grammy Museum in the fall of 2010, followed by Rock & Roll Party (Honoring Les Paul), a salute to Beck's hero featuring vocals by Imelda May. \r\nOver the next few years, Beck gigged regularly, highlighted by a 2013 joint tour with Brian Wilson; the duo planned to record together but those plans fell apart. In April 2015, Beck released Live+, a record culled from concerts given in August 2014 augmented by two new studio cuts. 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Their romantic and professional careers seemed perfect -- married in 1949, they began broadcasting The Les Paul Show to a national audience on NBC that same year.\r\nThe combination of Paul's technical genius and their national radio audience propelled them quickly to the top of the charts. Paul was an innovator in using multi-track recording, which had generated instrumental pop hits for him earlier in his career; now he was able to use Mary's voice for his most important studio experiments to date. First, he successfully achieved a close-miking effect by placing the microphone within six inches of her mouth, producing a warm and intimate sound. Then, by duplicating her performance on multiple tape tracks, it seemed she was harmonizing perfectly with herself, an effect that instantly connected the listener with the emotion of her recording. Together, they changed forever the sound of pop music. 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After all, this was a guy who left British Invasion trailblazers The Yardbirds in 1965 because he felt they were becoming too commercial. Never one for the outsized theatrics of peers like Jimi Hendrix or Jimmy Page, Clapton favored a more graceful style that mainlined the pain and longing at the heart of the blues. Since the late '60s, however, that purism has been balanced by a trendsetting savvy: With Cream, Clapton drafted the blueprints for psych rock and heavy metal; as a solo artist in the ‘70s, he imported reggae into the mainstream by covering Bob Marley’s “I Shot the Sheriff” and shaped the arena-rock canon with his tough-as-nails take on JJ Cale’s “Cocaine.” But while several of his biggest hits have been reinterpretations, Clapton has channeled his own struggles into unforgettable moments of emotional bloodletting. Hiding behind the alias of Derek and the Dominoes, he exorcised his guilt over falling for his best friend George Harrison’s wife, Patti, through the immortal classic-rock warhorse “Layla,” while decades later, he grieved the death of his four-year-old son Conor in the 1991 acoustic elegy “Tears in Heaven.” The latter song—and his Grammy-dominating MTV Unplugged set from the same era—heralded Clapton’s elder statesman phase, during which he has reasserted his dedication to the blues through Robert Johnson tribute albums and collaborations with BB King, while crossing over to the adult-contemporary charts via the Babyface-produced hymn “Change the World.” But Clapton’s multifaceted legacy lives on through modern-day guitar heroes like John Mayer and Gary Clark Jr., who likewise wield their serious chops in service of soulful, straight-from-the-heart pop.","isGroup":false,"bornOrFormed":"March 30, 1945","name":"Eric Clapton","editorialArtwork":{"originalFlowcaseBrick":{"width":1778,"height":600,"url":"https://is2-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Features5/v4/74/32/9e/74329e9b-e766-ca8a-6b53-743627d23285/source/{w}x{h}bb.jpeg","bgColor":"0f0c0b","textColor1":"e4e0cf","textColor2":"c7c1aa","textColor3":"b9b6a8","textColor4":"a29c8a"},"storeFlowcase":{"width":4320,"height":1080,"url":"https://is5-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Features7/v4/d9/31/26/d9312619-d8c0-e17a-a735-805f25f1e1a5/source/{w}x{h}bb.jpeg","bgColor":"060605","textColor1":"f7f6e7","textColor2":"dbd7c3","textColor3":"c7c6ba","textColor4":"b0ad9d"},"subscriptionHero":{"width":4320,"height":1080,"url":"https://is5-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Features1/v4/3b/94/34/3b943421-b82c-e343-1919-98a889a5614b/source/{w}x{h}bb.jpeg","bgColor":"060605","textColor1":"f0efe1","textColor2":"cbc6b2","textColor3":"c1c0b5","textColor4":"a3a08f"},"bannerUber":{"width":4320,"height":1080,"url":"https://is2-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Features1/v4/69/2f/bc/692fbc38-8134-e1cf-d73b-2a175777e2cf/source/{w}x{h}bb.jpeg","bgColor":"060605","textColor1":"f0efe1","textColor2":"cbc6b2","textColor3":"c1c0b5","textColor4":"a3a08f"}}}},{"id":"281896287","type":"artists","href":"/v1/catalog/us/artists/281896287?l=en-US","attributes":{"artwork":{"width":2400,"height":2400,"url":"https://is2-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Features123/v4/87/93/b9/8793b9db-5a21-a903-1c11-125a8320e86c/mzl.jbwuktrf.jpg/{w}x{h}bb.jpeg","bgColor":"111113","textColor1":"ecc2ac","textColor2":"dabb99","textColor3":"c09f8d","textColor4":"b2997e"},"origin":"Shreveport, LA","url":"https://music.apple.com/us/artist/kenny-wayne-shepherd-band/281896287","genreNames":["Blues"],"artistBio":"Fronted by a guitarist who began his career as a teenage prodigy and has since matured into one of the best-respected blues artists of his day, the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band has been a shifting group of musicians who backed the titular bandleader since he broke into the major labels and mainstream recognition in 1995. 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