Artist: Downchild blues band
Genre(s):
Blues
Discography:
We Deliver
Year: 2003
Tracks: 10
A Matter Of Time
Year: 1999
Tracks: 12
Good Times Guaranteed
Year: 1995
Tracks: 12
Dancing - Road Fever
Year: 1980
Tracks: 21
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Year:
Tracks: 20
Led by Donnie "Mr. Downchild" Walsh, the Downchild Blues Band is the prime minister vapours band in Canada. Their saxophone-driven jump vapours provided a major inspiration on Dan Aykroyd and the late John Belushi's Blues Brothers, world Health Organization included Walsh's tunes, "Everything I Need (Most)" and "Shotgun Blues", on their 1978 debut album, Briefcase Of The Blues. Formed in 1969, by Walsh and his chum, Richard "Hock" Walsh, the Downchild Blues Band endured continuous personnel department upset. More than xVIII musicians, including Gene Taylor, world Health Organization went on to play with the Fabulous Thunderbirds, and Kenny Neal, world Health Organization joined after going away the engage of Buddy Guy and relocating to Toronto. Conflict between the Walsh brothers resulted in Hock Walsh organism pink-slipped from the band, shortly in front work began on their third album, in 1974. Although he returned to work with the banding in 1977 and 1985, his hard living caught up with him on February 1999 when he succumbed to an seeming heart onslaught. Since the early nineties, Downchild Blues Band has benefited from a more-fixed lineup. Vocalist/songwriter Chuck Jackson, world Health Organization joined in 1990, received a Maple Blues prize as "c. H. Best male vocalizer of 1999" and a "Megrims With A Feeling" prize, from the Toronto Blues Society, for his "achievements during a imposing career". A erstwhile member of 1960s rock band, Rhinoceros, Michael Fonfara received a Maples Blues prize, in 2000, as "piano/keyboards player of the year." Mike Fitzpatrick has played drums with Big Joe Turner, Sonny Rhodes, Hubert Sumlin and Bob Margolin and has recorded with such vapours artists as Snooky Pryor and B.B. Odom. Gary Kendall, world Health Organization played bass on the band's earlier recordings, returned after a 12 year break, during which he engaged concerts at Toronto blues golf club, the Silver Dollar. The receiver of a Toronto Blues Society "Blues With A Feeling" awarding, in 1993, he received Maple Blues awards as "bass musician of the year" in 1997, 1999, 2000 and 2002. The signature sound of the Downchild Blues Band continues to emanate from sax player, Pat Carey. A penis of the band since 1985, Carey antecedently worked with the Winnepeg Symphony, the Jimmy King Golden Boy Brass, Tony Faim And The Dukes and Richard "Rhine wine" Wilson. In addition to providing horn arrangements for such Canadian artists as Jack DeKeyzer, braggy Daddy G, Sonny Fournier and Chuck Jackson and The All Stars, he has recorded with Rita Chiarelli, Fathead, the Unity Band, Danny Brooks and Curley Bridges. The receiver of a Maple Blues awarding as "horn player of the year", in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002, he recorded an album, Starlight with his grouping, Pat Carey's Jazz Navigators. Raised in northern Ontario, where their parents ran a resort hotel, Donnie and Richard "Rhine wine" Wilson resettled to Toronto in their teens. Together with the Downchild Blues Band, they recorded one of the number one independent albums to be released in Canada. Recorded in deuce nights, in a minor make-do studio at Rochdale College, the record album, coroneted Bootleg, was picked up for statistical distribution by RCA Victor and re-released in Canada and Japan. Their second album, Straight Up", released in 1974, included the band's only strike, a reworking of Joe Turner's "Flick, Flop And Fly".
