Danny Adler
Danny Adler (born 1949, Cincinnati, United States) is a blues-rock guitarist.
After playing with leading Cincinnati musicians, such as Bootsy Collins, Slim Harpo, H-Bomb Ferguson and Albert Washington, in the early 1960s, he went to San Francisco in 1969 to join John Lee Hooker, T-Bone Walker, Solomon Burke, and experimental group Elephant's Memory.
Moving to England in 1971, he founded Roogalator,[1] one of the first signings by the fledgling Stiff Records, as well as appearing regularly with Rocket 88, the back-to-the-roots boogie-woogie band which included Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, Ian Stewart, Jack Bruce and many other leading UK-based musicians.
In 1980 he put together another blues-rock revival band, the De Luxe Blues Band, with Bob Hall, Bob Brunning and Micky Waller. Dick Heckstall-Smith would join soon after. The band originated as a pick-up band to accompany visiting American blues performers Eddie Clearwater and Carey Bell but stayed together for over 12 years and recorded 5 albums. They disbanded when Adler returned to the US, although Brunning would later revive the band with a new lineup.
Discography
- The Roogalator Years – 1975–1978
- Early Danny Adler – Roogalator 1975–1978
- Funky Afternoons – 1979
- Gusha Gusha Music – 1980
- A Street Car Named De Luxe – The De Luxe Blues Band (1981)
- Live at Half Moon Putney – The De Luxe Blues Band (1981)
- The Danny Adler Band Live – 1982
- The Danny Adler Band – 1983
- Urban De Luxe – The De Luxe Blues Band (1983)
- Hubcap Heaven – 1986
- Otis "Elevator" Gilmore – 1986
- Hometowns and High Iron – 1987
- Night Shift – 1987
- The De Luxe Blues Band – 1988
- Motorvating – The De Luxe Blues Band (1988)
- Mackinaw City – 1989
- Homestretch – 1990
- Jazzin At RVG's – 1993
- Mother's Day – 1999
- Boat Diddley – to be released
References
- ↑ Google Books Funk: Third Ear – the Essential Listening Companion by Dave Thompson Backbeat Books, 2001 ISBN 0-87930-629-7, 978-0-87930-629-8