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Al Kooper

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Al Kooper (born Alan Peter Kuperschmidt, February 5, 1944) is an American songwriter, record producer and musician, known for organizing Blood, Sweat & Tears (although he did not stay with the group long enough to share its popularity), providing studio support for Bob Dylan when he went electric in 1965, and bringing together guitarists Mike Bloomfield and Stephen Stills to record the Super Session album. [1]

99 relations: A Possible Projection of the Future / Childhood's End, ABC Records, Act Like Nothing's Wrong, Al's Big Deal – Unclaimed Freight, Alice Cooper, Amy Tan, Atlanta, Atlanta Rhythm Section, Autumn (Don Ellis album), B.B. King, Back Up Against the Wall, Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards, Berklee College of Music, Blonde on Blonde, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Blues, Bob Dylan, Boston, Brooklyn, Child Is Father to the Man, Concert, Cream (band), Crime Story (TV series), Da Capo Press, Dave Barry, Dave Sharp, Don Ellis, Dylan (1973 album), Easy Does It (Al Kooper album), Electric Ladyland, Free Bird, Gary Lewis & the Playboys, Gene Pitney, Green on Red, Greenwich Village, Hal Leonard Corporation, Hammond organ, Highway 61 Revisited, I Must Be Seeing Things, I Stand Alone (Al Kooper album), Irwin Levine, Jeff Baxter, Jimi Hendrix, John Lefebvre, Johnnie Johnson (musician), Kooper Session, Let It Bleed, Like a Rolling Stone, Live & Well (B.B. King album), Lynyrd Skynyrd, ..., Mandolin, Martin Scorsese, Matt Groening, Mike Bloomfield, Monterey Pop Festival, Music industry, Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum, Naked Songs, Nashville, Tennessee, New Morning, New York City (You're a Woman), Newport Folk Festival, No Direction Home, Novelty song, Nuthin' Fancy, Paul Griffin (musician), Phonograph record, Pop rock, Queens, Queens Village, Queens, Rhythm and blues, Rock Bottom Remainders, Royal Teens, Second Helping, Self Portrait (Bob Dylan album), Session musician, Shuggie Otis, Single (music), Stan Polley, Stephen King, Stephen Stills, Super Session, Sweet Home Alabama, The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration, The Banana Splits, The Blues Project, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Landlord, The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper, The Rolling Stones, The Tubes, The Tubes (album), The Who, The Who Sell Out, This Diamond Ring, Tom Wilson (record producer), Twelve-bar blues, You Never Know Who Your Friends Are, (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd). Expand index (49 more) »

A Possible Projection of the Future / Childhood's End

A Possible Projection of the Future / Childhood's End is American musician Al Kooper's fifth album, recorded for and released by Columbia Records in 1972.

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ABC Records

ABC Records was an American record label founded in New York City in 1955.

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Act Like Nothing's Wrong

Act Like Nothing's Wrong is the seventh solo studio album by the American singer-songwriter Al Kooper, recorded and released in 1976.

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Al's Big Deal – Unclaimed Freight

Al's Big Deal – Unclaimed Freight is a compilation album by American musician Al Kooper.

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Alice Cooper

Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948) is an American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spans over fifty years.

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Amy Tan

Amy Tan (born February 19, 1952) is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and the Chinese American experience.

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Atlanta

Atlanta is the capital city and most populous municipality of the state of Georgia in the United States.

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Atlanta Rhythm Section

Atlanta Rhythm Section (or ARS) is an American southern rock band, formed in 1971 by Rodney Justo (singer), Barry Bailey (guitar), Paul Goddard (bass), Dean Daughtry (keyboards), Robert Nix (drums) and J.R. Cobb (guitar).

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Autumn (Don Ellis album)

Autumn is an album by trumpeter Don Ellis recorded in 1968 and released on the Columbia label.

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B.B. King

Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues singer, electric guitarist, songwriter, and record producer.

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Back Up Against the Wall

Back Up Against the Wall is the second album - the first with Ronnie Hammond on lead vocals — by the southern rock band Atlanta Rhythm Section, released in 1973.

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Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards

Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards: Memoirs of a Rock 'N' Roll Survivor is a 1998 autobiography by American songwriter, record producer and musician Al Kooper.

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Berklee College of Music

Berklee College of Music, located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world.

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Blonde on Blonde

Blonde on Blonde is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released in mid 1966, on Columbia Records.

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Blood, Sweat & Tears

Blood, Sweat & Tears (also known as "BS&T") was a jazz-rock American music group.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and painter who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades.

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Boston

Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a census-estimated 2,648,771 residents in 2017.

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Child Is Father to the Man

Child Is Father to the Man is the debut album by Blood, Sweat & Tears, released in February 1968.

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Concert

A concert is a live music performance in front of an audience.

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Cream (band)

Cream were a 1960s British rock power trio consisting of drummer Ginger Baker, guitarist/singer Eric Clapton and lead singer/bassist Jack Bruce.

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Crime Story (TV series)

Crime Story is an American television drama, created by Chuck Adamson and Gustave Reininger, that premiered in 1986 on NBC, where it ran for two seasons.

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Da Capo Press

Da Capo Press is an American publishing company with headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Dave Barry

David McAlister Barry (born July 3, 1947) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author and columnist who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for the Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005.

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Dave Sharp

Dave Sharp (born 28 January 1959) is an English guitarist who co-founded, along with Mike Peters, the Welsh punk/new wave band The Alarm.

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Don Ellis

Donald Johnson Ellis (July 25, 1934 – December 17, 1978) was an American jazz trumpeter, drummer, composer, and bandleader.

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Dylan (1973 album)

Dylan is the 13th studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on November 19, 1973 by Columbia Records.

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Easy Does It (Al Kooper album)

Easy Does It is the third solo album by American singer-songwriter Al Kooper, recorded and released in 1970 for Columbia Records.

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Electric Ladyland

Electric Ladyland is the third and final studio album by English-American rock band the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

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Free Bird

"Free Bird", or "Freebird", is a power ballad performed by American rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd.

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Gary Lewis & the Playboys

Gary Lewis & the Playboys were an American 1960s era pop and rock group, fronted by musician Gary Lewis, the son of comedian Jerry Lewis.

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Gene Pitney

Gene Francis Alan Pitney (February 17, 1940 – April 5, 2006) was an American singer-songwriter, musician, and sound engineer.

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Green on Red

Green on Red was an American rock band, formed in the Tucson, Arizona punk scene, but based for most of its career in Los Angeles, California, where it was loosely associated with the Paisley Underground.

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Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village often referred to by locals as simply "the Village", is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan, New York City.

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Hal Leonard Corporation

Hal Leonard Corporation is a United States music publishing and distribution company founded in Winona, Minnesota, by Harold "Hal" Edstrom, his brother, Everett "Leonard" Edstrom, and fellow musician Roger Busdicker.

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Hammond organ

The Hammond organ is an electric organ, invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935.

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Highway 61 Revisited

Highway 61 Revisited is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on August 30, 1965 by Columbia Records.

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I Must Be Seeing Things

I Must Be Seeing Things the 12th album released by American singer Gene Pitney, released on the Musicor label in the United States in 1965.

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I Stand Alone (Al Kooper album)

I Stand Alone is American singer-songwriter Al Kooper's 1969 debut album issued on Columbia Records.

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Irwin Levine

Irwin Jesse Levine (March 23, 1938 – January 21, 1997) - accessed April 11, 2012 was an American songwriter, who co-wrote the song "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" with L. Russell Brown.

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Jeff Baxter

Jeffrey Allen "Skunk" Baxter (born December 13, 1948) is an American guitarist, known for his stints in the rock bands Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers during the 1970s and Spirit in the 1980s.

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Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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John Lefebvre

John Lefebvre (born August 6, 1951), is a Canadian musician, composer, entrepreneur, retired lawyer and philanthropist.

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Johnnie Johnson (musician)

Johnnie Clyde Johnson (July 8, 1924 – April 13, 2005) was an American pianist who played jazz, blues and rock and roll.

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Kooper Session

Kooper Session is the second-in-line of the Super Session albums featuring singer-songwriter Al Kooper.

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Let It Bleed

Let It Bleed is the eighth British and tenth American studio album by English rock band the Rolling Stones, released in December 1969 by Decca Records in the United Kingdom and London Records in the United States.

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Like a Rolling Stone

"Like a Rolling Stone" is a 1965 song by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan.

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Live & Well (B.B. King album)

Live & Well is the sixteenth studio album by B. B. King released in 1969.

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Lynyrd Skynyrd

Lynyrd Skynyrd, or informally shortened to Skynyrd, is an American rock band best known for having popularized the Southern rock genre during the 1970s.

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Mandolin

A mandolin (mandolino; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or "pick".

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Martin Scorsese

Martin Charles Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American director, producer, screenwriter, actor and film historian, whose career spans more than 50 years.

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Matt Groening

Matthew Abraham Groening (born February 15, 1954) is an American cartoonist, writer, producer, animator, and voice actor.

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Mike Bloomfield

Michael Bernard Bloomfield (July 28, 1943 – February 15, 1981) was an American guitarist and composer, born in Chicago, Illinois, who became one of the first popular music superstars of the 1960s to earn his reputation almost entirely on his instrumental prowess, since he rarely sang before 1969.

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Monterey Pop Festival

The Monterey International Pop Music Festival was a three-day concert event held June 16 to June 18, 1967 at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California.

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Music industry

The music industry consists of the companies and individuals that earn money by creating new songs and pieces and selling live concerts and shows, audio and video recordings, compositions and sheet music, and the organizations and associations that aid and represent music creators.

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Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum

The Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum (MHOF) honors all musicians regardless of genre or instrument.

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Naked Songs

Naked Songs is the sixth and final album by American singer-songwriter Al Kooper for Columbia Records, released in 1973.

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Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County.

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New Morning

New Morning is the 11th studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on October 19, 1970 by Columbia Records.

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New York City (You're a Woman)

New York City (You're a Woman) is the fourth album by American singer-songwriter Al Kooper for Columbia Records, recorded and released in 1971.

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Newport Folk Festival

The Newport Folk Festival is an American annual folk-oriented music festival in Newport, Rhode Island, which began in July 1959 as a counterpart to the previously established Newport Jazz Festival.

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No Direction Home

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan is a 2005 documentary film by Martin Scorsese that traces the life of Bob Dylan, and his impact on 20th-century American popular music and culture.

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Novelty song

A novelty song is a comical or nonsensical song, performed principally for its comical effect.

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Nuthin' Fancy

Nuthin' Fancy is a 1975 album by Lynyrd Skynyrd, their third studio album, and their first to reach the Top 10, peaking at #9 on the US albums chart.

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Paul Griffin (musician)

Paul Griffin (August 6, 1937 – June 14, 2000) was an American pianist and session musician who recorded with hundreds of musicians from the 1950s to the 1990s.

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

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Pop rock

Pop rock (also typeset as pop/rock) is rock music with a greater emphasis on professional songwriting and recording craft, and less emphasis on attitude.

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Queens

Queens is the easternmost and largest in area of the five boroughs of New York City.

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Queens Village, Queens

Queens Village is a mostly residential middle class neighborhood in the eastern part of the New York City borough of Queens.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Rock Bottom Remainders

The Rock Bottom Remainders are an American rock and roll band, consisting of published writers, most of them both amateur musicians and popular English-language book, magazine, and newspaper authors.

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Royal Teens

The Royal Teens was a New Jersey rock and roll band that formed in 1956, which was composed of Bob Gaudio on piano, Tom Austin on drums, Billy Dalton on guitar, and Billy Crandall on saxophone.

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Second Helping

Second Helping is a 1974 album by Lynyrd Skynyrd.

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Self Portrait (Bob Dylan album)

Self Portrait is the 10th studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on June 8, 1970, by Columbia Records.

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Session musician

Session musicians, studio musicians, or backing musicians are musicians hired to perform in recording sessions or live performances.

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Shuggie Otis

Shuggie Otis (born Johnny Alexander Veliotes, Jr.; November 30, 1953) is an American singer-songwriter, recording artist, and multi-instrumentalist.

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Single (music)

In music, a single, record single or music single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record.

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Stan Polley

Stanley Herbert Polley (April 7, 1922 – July 20, 2009) was an entertainment manager active in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy.

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Stephen Stills

Stephen Arthur Stills (born January 3, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.

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Super Session

Super Session is an album conceived by Al Kooper and featuring the work of guitarists Mike Bloomfield and Stephen Stills, released on Columbia Records in 1968.

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Sweet Home Alabama

"Sweet Home Alabama" is a song by Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd that first appeared in 1974 on their second album, Second Helping.

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The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration

The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration is a live double-album release in recognition of Bob Dylan's 30 years as a recording artist.

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The Banana Splits

The Banana Splits Adventure Hour is an hour-long, packaged television variety program featuring The Banana Splits, a fictional rock band composed of four funny animal characters.

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The Blues Project

The Blues Project is a band from the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City that was formed in 1965 and originally split up in 1967.

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The Jimi Hendrix Experience

The Jimi Hendrix Experience was an American-English rock band that formed in Westminster, London, in September 1966.

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The Landlord

The Landlord is a 1970 American Comedy drama film directed by Hal Ashby, based on the 1966 novel by Kristin Hunter.

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The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper

The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper is a double album recorded at the Fillmore West venue; the album is a successor to the studio album Super Session, which included both Bloomfield and Kooper in addition to Stephen Stills, and had achieved commercial and critical success earlier in 1968.

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The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London, England, in 1962.

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The Tubes

The Tubes are a San Francisco-based rock band.

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The Tubes (album)

The Tubes is the debut album by the Tubes.

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The Who

The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964.

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The Who Sell Out

The Who Sell Out is the third studio album by the British rock band the Who, released on 15 December 1967 by Track Records in the UK and Decca Records in the US.

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This Diamond Ring

"This Diamond Ring" is a 1965 song written by Al Kooper, Bob Brass and Irwin Levine.

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Tom Wilson (record producer)

Thomas Blanchard "Tom" Wilson Jr. (March 25, 1931 – September 6, 1978) was an American record producer best known for his work in the 1960s with Bob Dylan, the Mothers of Invention, Simon and Garfunkel, the Velvet Underground, Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Eddie Harris, Nico, Eric Burdon & the Animals, the Blues Project, the Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem, and others.

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Twelve-bar blues

The twelve-bar blues or blues changes is one of the most prominent chord progressions in popular music.

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You Never Know Who Your Friends Are

You Never Know Who Your Friends Are is the second solo album by American multi-instrumentalist Al Kooper, issued in 1969 on Columbia Records.

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(Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd)

(Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd) is the debut album from Lynyrd Skynyrd, released in 1973.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Kooper

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