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Grady Gaines
Grady Gaines is credited on 49 releases across 30 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1966–2022 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
49
Pressings credited
30
Albums
7
Decades active
25
In collections
Biography
Grady Gaines (May 14, 1934 – January 29, 2021) was an American electric blues, Texas blues and jazz blues tenor saxophonist, who performed and recorded with Little Richard in the 1950s. He backed other musicians such as Dee Clark, Little Willie John, Sam Cooke, James Brown, Jackie Wilson, and Joe Tex. He released three albums.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
49 releases · 30 albums · active 1966–2022
- Performance · 57
- Other credits · 1
- Production · 1
Studios: Dockside Studio · Sugar Hill Studios · WGST Studio · ACA Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Little Richard
- Snooks Eaglin
- Oscar Wright (3)
- Clarence Gatemouth Brown
- "James ""Thunderbird"" Davis"
- Grady Gaines & The Texas Upsetters
- Ron Levy's Wild Kingdom
- Various
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