Norton Buffalo

The local music community is mourning the loss of harmonica hero Norton Buffalo, who died Oct. 30 after a lengthy battle with cancer. Steve Miller, Bonnie Raitt and the Doobie Brothers are among those who will pay tribute to Buffalo during...

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...concert performances. The band has recorded sporadically but has not released a new album since 1993's Wide River. Long time member Norton Buffalo passed away from lung cancer on October 30, 2009. Receiving their Walk of Fame star.

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...Rogers, released on San Francisco's Blind Pig Records. Buffalo also formed and performed with such bands as Norton Buffalo and the Knockouts and Norton Buffalo and Friends. In a post on Rogers' Web site, the slide guitarist expressed his...

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...best known as a versatile exponent of the harmonica, including chromatic and diatonic . The son of a harmonica player, Norton Buffalo was born in Oakland and raised in Richmond, California. In high school he performed in a series of...

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Good morning November, and all those who pass through it. Norton Buffalo, the harmonica maestro with the Steve Miller Band who appeared on recordings with Bonnie Raitt, Doobie Brothers, Kenny Loggins, and many more, died over the weekend...

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Blues harmonica virtuoso Norton Buffalo died Friday, following a brief battle with lung cancer. Buffalo, 58, learned in September he had cancer and was attempting to beat the disease. Friends learned he went into a coma Thursday night and...

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Article:Harmonica maestro Norton Buffalo dies at 58:/c/a/2009/11/01/DD031ADOLJ.DTL 11-01) 21:11 PST PARADISE (BUTTE COUNTY) -- Norton Buffalo, harmonica virtuoso, one-of-a-kind performer and consummate accompanist to the stars, died...

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...played on over 2000 albums. His last album, Livin' With the Blues, released in 2004, featured guest appearances by Elvin Bishop, Norton Buffalo, Maria Muldaur and others. His 2005 Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance

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...& Jimmy Cheatham & the Sweet Baby Blues Band, Zachary Richard & his Zydeco Rockers, Roy Rogers & the Delta Rhythm Kings with Norton Buffalo, Lady Bianca Bobby "Blue" Bland , Koko Taylor, Albert Collins, Carla Thomas, John Lee Hooker, Johnny...

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...copies. Other featured songs include "She's No Good", "Born in a Honky Tonk", "Girl, You Blew a Good Thing" and "Quite Like You". Norton Buffalo from the Steve Miller Band has a harp (harmonica) solo on the song "Never Gonna Take Your Lies".

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