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Homesick Joe left a comment for Arthur Adams
There's only one thing I can say, mmmm, mmm, love your sound!!!
WALTER B CLARY left a comment for Arthur Adams
aurther
I am new to this BLUES WORLD thing,. I saw that you left me a message, or anote? so I'm just getting back at you. I see your in LA, I used to live down that way. but have been up NO. for a while now.
I goofed up Idid'nt mean to…
Brad Vickers left a comment for Arthur Adams
Hi, Arthur. Thanks for your friendship.
Wishing you a happy, healthy, music-filled new year!
-Brad Vickers & His Vestapolitans
James Patrick Hurley left a comment for Arthur Adams
Sorry I was so tardy in replying. Looking forward to hearing you someday.
James
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- “I love the spirit in your guitar playing,” B.B. King told Arthur Adams at the beginning of their long musical association and friendship. Deep soul and a life force blazing with intensity yet inherent sweetness radiate in layer upon layer of the talents and musical genres through which Adams weaves his magic. Singer, songwriter, guitar-slinger and dynamic performer, Adams’s diverse life experiences and musical history have merged and matured into a unique style that expresses universal emotions through a highly individual lens.
Arthur Adams entered the world on Christmas, 1940 in Medon, Tennessee, making his singing debut in church at the age of six. He started playing guitar on his front porch with a few chords his mother taught him — initially on a guitar his uncle had tuned to an arcane, barely-used scale. Adams copied songs he heard on the radio, adding licks as he toured Tennessee and Arkansas as a teenager in a short-lived gospel group. By 1959 he was playing in Nashville, where he joined tenor saxophonist Jimmy Beck’s band. They toured with Gene Allison, who was still coasting on his 1957 hit, “You Can Make It If You Try.” However, Allison ditched the band in Dallas following a dispute with a promoter. With customary resourcefulness, Adams remained in Dallas for several years, cutting some R & B singles and adding complex jazz melodies and rhythms to his prodigious guitar chops.
Simultaneously, since early adolescence Adams had been nurturing his natural song-writing talent, seeing the first pressings of his efforts emerge during the Nashville years. In 1961, Sam Cooke recorded his song, “Somebody’s Gonna Miss Me.”
Adams moved to Los Angeles in 1964. “I came out to play a few songs, some blues, some R & B and go home.” Instead, he became a sought-after session musician in a voraciously competitive work environment, quickly teaching himself to read sheet music while sitting among formally trained musicians. Adams’ horizons stretched to encompass an array of musical styles for movie and television soundtracks, and for musicians as diverse and demanding as Lowell Fulson, Henry Mancini, Nancy Wilson, Hugh Masekela and Jerry Garcia. He continued to record singles and write songs for top artists, including “Love and Peace,” recorded by Quincy Jones in 1969 on the Grammy-winning album, Walking in Space.
Today, in large festivals and small clubs alike, Adams continues to blow away audiences as he walks among them, revving them up with soaring guitar solos and melting ‘em down with his liquid honey voice. Adams’ versatility, deep soulfulness and wide influences are distilled into a smooth but heady cocktail in the new Delta Groove release, Stomp the Floor. It is also the result of a long relationship with the label and its founder, Randy Chortkoff, whom he met before the birth of the label through their mutual passion for blues. (Adams’ musical presence graces a number of Delta Groove recordings, including the first Mitch Kashmar CD. He also toured with The Mannish Boys.)
Adams says of Stomp the Floor, “I’ve done it exactly the way I feel it. It’s all me; not all traditional blues, not all R & B, not all jazz, but a little of all of it.” The way Adams feels and plays it is the spirit of a man born to express himself through music that has been forged and shaped by a lifetime of creative ingenuity, vast experience, and most of all, formidable talent.
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- At 5:33pm on August 12, 2010,
Tom 1960 said… - Hey Arthur,
We definitely gotta get you on Blindman's Blues Forum! I help promote the website. It's worth looking up. Just GOOGLE it. Over 500,000 posts! Please stop by. You would make a fine addition to the forum.
- At 12:38pm on March 22, 2010,
Bron Buick said… - Arthur - a pleasure and privilege to welcome you into my 'space in space' - have a great week and all my bluesy best - BB
- At 8:06am on February 1, 2010,
Homesick Joe said… - There's only one thing I can say, mmmm, mmm, love your sound!!!
- At 3:20pm on January 15, 2010,
WALTER B CLARY said…
- aurther
I am new to this BLUES WORLD thing,. I saw that you left me a message, or anote? so I'm just getting back at you. I see your in LA, I used to live down that way. but have been up NO. for a while now.
I goofed up Idid'nt mean to skip down. Do you ever get up NO.? { I'm NO. of S.F.} I try real hard not to get down to LA{no offence}
You look old enough to have known, or at least known of HOLLYWOOD FATS
I met him through Rod Piazza many years ago, what A player1
I'm real new at the whole computer world so I hope you get this take care
PEACE WALTER
- At 12:12am on January 11, 2010,
Brad Vickers said…
- Hi, Arthur. Thanks for your friendship.
Wishing you a happy, healthy, music-filled new year!
-Brad Vickers & His Vestapolitans
- At 8:52pm on December 20, 2009,
Erik E. Knudson said… - Thanks for the friendship!
- At 6:36pm on December 19, 2009,
James Patrick Hurley said… - Sorry I was so tardy in replying. Looking forward to hearing you someday.
James
- At 8:25pm on December 8, 2009,
Sean said… - Arthur, you're one of the great ones!
- At 11:45am on November 30, 2009,
Blues X-Treme said… - Thanks for the request. Love ur tunes.
Joey D.
- At 8:45am on November 30, 2009,
Rocky Buldo said…
- Wow great stuff! I really like your style and diversity..
Warmest Regards,
Boogieman145
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