Terry Adams

...his own groups. In 2004 he reunited with his former bandmates for a 35th anniversary concert and reteamed with NRBQ keyboardist Terry Adams in 2006 to record the album Louisville Sluggers. Ferguson died on 7 October (09) according to an...

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...and formed the original version of NRBQ there in 1967 with a high school friend, the keyboardist, singer, and songwriter Terry Adams. (The name, short for New Rhythm and Blues Quartet, was inspired by a very different ensemble, the Modern...

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...the billing included Al Anderson, Joey Spampinato, Johnny Spampinato, and Frank Gadler. In a live radio interview, Terry Adams said he was aware of these shows but acknowledged that he was not invited. He went on to say that it was likely...

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Ferguson, who was born in Louisville in 1948, founded the New Rhythm & Blues Quintet in the late 1960s with keyboardist Terry Adams, playing what the Louisville Courier-Journal called "a crazy mix of roll 'n' roll, R&B and jazz." The...

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...really. He was just a gift, really amazing. Ferguson, called Fergie, was perhaps best known as a co-founder of NRBQ with keyboardist Terry Adams. The high school friends had teen bands in Louisville before leaving in 1967 for Miami, Fla.,...

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...singer/songwriter Skeeter Davis, although they divorced, and is presently married to musician Kami Lyle. NRBQ band-mate Terry Adams wrote the song "Spampinato" in celebration of his friend's family name; the song appeared on the band's...

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...Grace Jones, Pete Doherty, Beth Orton, David Thomas (Pere Ubu), Roisin Murphy (Moloko), Ed Harcourt, Marshall Allen (Sun Ra), Terry Adams (NRBQ), Steven Bernstein , Howie B, Richard Strange, and Gavin Friday. In July 2007, he was...

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...recently, Adams has released "Rhythm Spell" and "Holy Tweet", and has toured with his new group, the Terry Adams Rock & Roll Quartet. Adams' live performances with NRBQ are brimming with energy, technique, wild humor, and showmanship that...

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When someone can write pop songs as well as Terry Adams, with his degree of history and craft, the resulting work usually feels protected: there's a force field of preciousness, irony or even hostility around the gift. But Mr. Adams, who...

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...by the Bad Plus or Medeski, Martin and Wood - witty, wise and fun stuff, riding on the funk breeze of Jared Schonig's drumming. Terry Adams' "Love Letter to Andromeda": The brilliant pianist in the sadly defunct cult band NRBQ comes out...

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