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Adderley Smith Blues Band
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Like their contemporaries, Brisbane's Bay City Union and Sydney's pioneering Foreday Riders, Melbourne's Adderly Smith Blues Band were laying down heavy blues way ahead of their time and they're now recognised as one of Australia's first 'authentic' blues groups, in that they tried to faithfully play the blues in the style and spirit of the original artists, rather than watering the genre down for pop audiences. The band is also notable for the fact that several members went onto to bigger things -- Smith and Tolhurst went on to work variously with Sundown, Carson and Country Radio before forming The Dingoes; Joe Camilleri has carved out a brilliant career both as a solo artist and with his acclaimed bands Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons, The Black Sorrows, The Revelators and Bakelite Radio. Blues fanatics Mark Dindas and Kerryn Tolhurst (ex Blues Merchants, Vacant Lot) formed the group in 1964. Like England's Yardbirds, they were purists, taking their inspiration directly from the original blues of Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Junior Wells, Willie Dixon, Sonny Boy Williamson and Howlin' Wolf, but alongside the blues standards they also performed some original material written by Tolhurst. The line-up changed many times. Over the years the membership included Broderick Smith (ex The Maltese Band, Smokey Hollows) who joined in 1966, Gary Collier, "Fat" Fred Bond, John O'Brien, Colin Graham (a future Australian Ballet lighting director), Ron Issac, Paul Lever and Doug Stirling. Accord
