Bobby whitlock biography
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Bobby Whitlock
American singer, songwriter and musician (born 1948)
Not to be confused with Bob Whitlock (musician).
Musical artist
Robert Stanley Whitlock (born March 18, 1948) is an American singer, songwriter and musician. He is best known as a member of the blues-rock band Derek and the Dominos, with Eric Clapton, in 1970–71. Whitlock's musical career began with Memphis soul acts such as Sam & Dave and Booker T. & the M.G.'s before he joined Delaney & Bonnie and Friends in 1968. His association with Delaney & Bonnie bandmate Clapton led to Whitlock's participation in sessions for George Harrison's 1970 triple album All Things Must Pass, in London, and the formation of Derek and the Dominos that year. On the band's sole studio album, the critically acclaimed Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, Whitlock wrote or co-wrote seven of the album's fourteen tracks, including "Tell the Truth", "Bell Bottom Blues" and "Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad?".
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Continuing the never-ending quest to remaster and repackage the greatest music you’ve never heard (but definitely should), Light In The Attic’s imprint Future Days has released The Bobby Whitlock Story: Where There’s A Will, There’s A Waycollecting the first two early 1970’s solo albums by Memphis singer/songwriter/keyboardist/guitarist Bobby Whitlock. Presented here together on CD,Bobby Whitlock(1972) andRaw Velvet(also 1972) are star-studded soulful albums from one of rock music’s key unsung figures.
During the recording of those albums, Whitlock tentatively made his first steps as a solo artist. Though drugs were already beginning to tear Derek & The Dominos apart, Whitlock was able to call on some high profile friends (and “Friends”) to play on his debut album, including Clapton, Harrison, session bassist Klaus Voormann (John Lennon, Carly Simon, et al), drummer Jim Gordon, Chris Wood (of Traffic) and others. “I really loved my first record and everything that wa
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Bobby Whitlock
Whitlock’s story is a remarkable one. Born to a hardscrabble existence and raised in abject poverty, he was abused bygd his preacher father and sent out to pick cotton in the fields. Moving from one railroad town to another, Whitlock was ganska literally from the wrong side of the tracks.
Yet thanks to his singing and piano playing, music was Whitlock’s escape. Winding up in Memphis, Whitlock hooked up with Stax Records who signed him as the first vit artist to their new pop label HIP. But it was soul music, not pop, that was in Whitlock’s heart – and his break came when Delaney & Bonnie asked him to join their grupp, The Friends. Following Delaney & Bonnie from Stax to Elektra Records, Whitlock found his life starting to förgrena with 60s rock royalty. Delaney & Bonnie took him on tour with Blind Faith, where Eric Clapton was impressed with Whitlock’s playing and the camaraderie he saw in The Friends. Soon, Whitlock joined Clapton, Jim Gordon, and Carl