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Artist
Burton Gaar
12+ albums
bluesjazzAllspotify
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Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Burton Gaar began his professional musical career in 1959 at the age of 16 playing bass guitar behind the legendary Louisiana bluesman Slim Harpo. Throughout the 1960's, his association with the Boogie Kings, one of the South's most popular R&B acts at the time, solidified his musical direction. As the 1970's dawned, although blues music was no longer fashionable for any audience, Burton managed to thrive with his Stone River Band, handling all requests from doowop to R&B. In the 1980's, he joined zydeco great Rockin' Sydney (My Toot Toot) Simien's band - a musical relationship that was to turn into a lifelong friendship. This decade also saw Burton spend five years as a writer/producer at a major studio in Houston, Texas. The end of the decade and early 1990's brought yet another connection with a legend, as Burton performed for several years with R&B superstar Percy Sledge. In 1995 Burton Gaar recorded his debut CD for Lanor Records "Still Singing The Blues" and during his first European tour in 1996, he recorded his second CD "One Hundred Pounds of Trouble" which was released in the spring of 1997 on the CrossCut label. In a review of the latter, Blues Revue magazine noted it to be, ". . . one of the top 10 most listened to CD in Blue Revue offices worldwide." Grammy Nominated Handy Winner Charlie Musselwhite recorded Gaar’s song “No” from this disc as the first cut on his Grammy nominated album, Continental Drifter. Musselwhite later
