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Artist
Fred Knoblock
12+ albums
about
J. Fred Knobloch, a Jackson, Mississippi native, has been performing since the age of thirteen when he and some friends formed a band to play at school "sock hops." After a few more bands, vans, night clubs, managers, agents, motels, demo sessions, night clubs, jam sessions, hotels, night clubs,....well, you get the picture--he finally found a job. In 1973, J. Fred left school to play music full-time; he began performing solo at night clubs across the south and landed a few dates as a session guitarist at MALACO Studios in Jackson. While working for such R&B notables as Dorothy Moore, Eddie Floyd and Anita Ward, he met drummer James Stroud and pianist Carson Whitsett; it was Whitsett who encouraged his writing and performing and in 1980 it all paid off with "WHY NOT ME". Co-written with Whitsett and produced by James Stroud, J. Fred reached #1 on the Billboard AC chart and # 18 on HOT 100. On the heels of that success, Fred moved to Los Angeles and over the next two years had two Top Ten country singles with "Killin' Time", a duet with Susan Anton, and a re-make of the Chuck Berry classic, "Memphis". But it wasn't long before the South started calling him home and he relocated to Nashville in January of 1983. Since moving to Nashville, Music Row has allowed him to make lots of "noise with the boys" as an artist, session musician and songwriter. With his good friends Thom Schuyler and Craig Bickhardt, who formed the group SKB, he recorded two albums for MTM including the hi
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albums
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Why Not Me (Expanded Edition)
Why Not Me
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Billboard # 1'sTop 100 Country Songs 1981
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Radio Daze: Pop Hits of the 80s: 3
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Pop Hits Of The 80'S
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AOR AGE presents Gems & Rarities [Disc 1]
Killin' Time
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Radio Daze- Pop Hits Of The 80
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Radio Daze: Pop Hits Of The '80s, Vol. 3
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Radio Daze: Pop Hits Of The '80s, Volume Three
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Radio Daze: Pop Hits of the 80s, Vol. 3
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Billboard # 1'sTop 100 Country Songs 1982