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De Luxe Blues Band
12+ albums
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The De Luxe blues band originally started life in 1980 as a pick-up band for American blues performers Eddie Clearwater and Carey Bell for just one show. American guitarist and singer Danny Adler had invited pianist Bob Hall, drummer Mickey Waller and bassist Bob Brunning to do the gig in London's steamy Dingwall club. They thoroughly enjoyed working together, and decided that night to form a permanent band. Veteran sax player Dick Heckstall Smith would soon join them. A good time was had by all for the next 13 years but after five albums and countless European Tours, Danny Adler decided to return to the States, and the De Luxe band members amicably went their separate ways. Bob Brunning took a break for a while, but in 1994 lure of the De Luxes is was too hard to resist, and so he invited seasoned London musicians Phil Taylor, Alan Vincent and Dave Beaumont to join him in the De Luxe Blues Band, Mark II. They had fun and made one more album. However in 1997, they called it a day, having thoroughly enjoyed their musical alliance. Shortly afterwards, Bob Brunning bumped into five musicians who would eventually join him in the newest De Luxe Blues Band line-up. Bill and Daniel Smith (harp and guitar), Reg Patten (drums), Russell Baillie (vocals) and Dennis McGrath (guitar) proved to be more than worthy successors to previous De Luxe band members, and immediately hit the road... and the studio. On October 18, 2011, Bob Brunning passed away from a sudden heart attack, ending
