Artist: Rick Derringer
Genre(s):
Jazz
Rock: Pop-Rock
Discography:
Free Ride
Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
Jackhammer Blues
Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
Electra Blues
Year: 1993
Tracks: 10
Back to the Blues
Year: 1993
Tracks: 11
It seems like Rick Derringer has been on the stone & roll vista forever -- actually, it's only when been since 1965, which makes him one of the more enduring veterans of his genesis. Derringer's work with his band the McCoys in his midteens, highlighted by the bubblegum anthem "Hang On Sloopy," gave him a claim to low-level rock & roll immortality, and his subsequent playacting with Johnny (and later Edgar) Winter provided him with a grade of credibility that a muckle of guitar players crapper only when envy, particularly after the release of the Edgar Winter live double album Roadwork.
Derringer began getting production feel with the McCoys, but they were ne'er able to get the best their bubblegum rock'n'roll image, and by the end of the sixties, Derringer and his brother Randy were recruited by Johnny Winter into his band, with Derringer playing guitar and besides producing. He emerged as a solo creative person in the heat of his playacting with Edgar Winter's White Trash. Derringer number one became popular in his have proper during the early/mid-'70s, root with a new version of his have "Rock & Roll, Hoochie Koo" (which Johnny Winter had covered for him a few days in the beginning) sour Derringer's grievous metal-influenced debut album, All American Boy. Derringer shortly had his own band, called Derringer, on the road -- although his guitar player and bassist, Danny Johnson and Kenny Aaronson, left hand in 1977 to form Axis -- and within a duet of days had established himself as a popular deary. Derringer's recorded history was middling uneven, however, as his track record gross revenue never matched his favor with concert audiences -- a huge spread too existed between releases, which didn't bother him; even in the former '90s, Derringer played close to 200 shows a class. He worn-out about of the later '70s and eighties, nonetheless, as a producer, working with artists as diverse as Bette Midler, Kiss, Meat Loaf, Cyndi Lauper, Barbra Streisand, and Weird Al Yankovic.
Derringer is known for his hard-rocking live shows, which don't necessarily translate well to recordings, or bestow themselves to a great deal originality. As he neared eld 50 in the nineties, however, he had mellow, and this showed when he began recording once more for Shrapnel Records in 1993 with the albums Back to the Blues and Electra Blues. Years of fairish to median rock and roll and adult modern-day albums followed, simply in 2002 Derringer did an policy change and tested his work force at jazz with the adventuresome Release Ride.
