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Big Bo - Roomful, definitely! Back in the day with Duke Robbilaird.... there are still a few of original members but when they went more toward frat house rock I lost interest. Duke is STILL the man, as far as I'm concerned. Pure class, not a bazillion notes per second like some, but every note is the right one. Saw Roomful dozens of times in the early - mid 70s, they actually played *in the rain, under a tiny tent* at my sister in laws high school graduation party on the beach at Esker Point in Groton, CT! Also saw them many times at the Knickerbocker in Westerly - what a place - and man, those RI kids who grew up with them knew how to swing dance waaaay before it got popular again. Many of them were so good you didn't even want to get out on the dance floor. Groups like Voodoo Daddy are a pale imitation.
Also, a singer/songwriter named Randy Burns from New Haven. He was great and had a really fine acoustic band and could have been as big as J. Taylor or J. Browne or any of them but the bottle did him in. sad.
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