Double Trouble
Bassist Tommy Shannon played with both Johnny Winter and Stevie Ray Vaughan when the two guitarists became blues giants of their respective generations. Interestingly, he first met each of them at...
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  A half-century after the Delta's first recording bluesmen, and a quarter-century after Elvis surfaced, Mississippi was still capable of birthing performers as evocative as Steve Forbert. Alive On Arrival (as the title of his debut album stated it) in New York at age 21, Forbert busked the echoey canyons of Grand Central Station back in the day when earnest street guitar players actually got record deals. Weathering the "new Dylan" comparisons heaped on that first LP, Forbert came back with this Top 20 single/Top 10 album of "folk-country-rockabilly-soul-pop-gospel-rock 'n' roll-blues music"-his direction to this very day. Dedicated to the memory of Florence Ballard.

(S. Forbert); Produced by John Simon for Sundown Sound Productions; Steve Forbert, guitar, vocal; Bobby Ogdin, piano; Paul Errico, organ; Jon Goin, lead guitar; Bob Wray, bass; Roger Clark, drums; backing vocals by "The Shoals Sisters" (Ava Aldridge, Cindy Richardson, Marie Tomlinson); Rec. Nashville, June-July 1979. From Jackrabbit Slim, Nemperor JZ 36191 (AL 36191); P 1979 Nemperor Records, Inc.