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The Great Bobby Whitlock! 
Raised in Arkansas and Memphis, Whitlock began playing piano at many sessions at the legendary Stax Studios by the time he was a teenager. Whitlock was also the first white artist signed to Stax Records. Upon seeing him perform in a Memphis club, Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett asked Whitlock to join their band. Whitlock began a friendship with Eric Clapton when Delaney & Bonnie and Friends toured with Clapton as their lead guitarist. Whitlock soon became part of Clapton's "Derek and the Dominoes" project, co-writing many of the songs and playing and singing on most of the album that became Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs (such as the lead vocal on his own "Thorn Tree in the Garden"). With essentially the same band, he played on George Harrison's All Things Must Pass. Bobby Whitlock on the cover of Raw Velvet, 1972During the 1970s Whitlock released four solo albums. The first one, self-titled, was released in 1972. Raw Velvet featured Eric Clapton on "Dearest I Wonder", who was heavily influenced by Duane Allman's playing after the Layla sessions. After his 1976 album Rock Your Sox Off, Whitlock laid low for most of the 1980s and 1990s, living on a farm in Tipton county, Tennessee and doing session work. In 1999, he returned to music with It's About Time. Today Bobby is teamed up with wife CoCo Carmel and the two have released a live album titled "Other assorted Love Songs." They are also working on a new studio album (produced and engineered by Carmel, it features a new version of "Layla" with CoCo Carmel on sax), and they occasionally play acoustic sessions at the Saxon Pub in Austin, Texas, where the two moved in 2006. 

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                                                                           Pete Daniel, Bass player for Lance Manley Band 
                                                                                  with the Great "Bobby Whitlock", Austin TX, 2007




 Austin, Texas September, 2007



Ian McLagan ( Pictured Left) and Pete Daniel standing by Ian;s pickup after his gig with the Bump Band at the Lucky Lounge in Austin. Ian and his Bump band play there every Thursday. Go see them!  

The Hammond-B3 in the picture is the same B3 used to co-write many songs and many times perform with Small Faces and Faces (Small Faces became Faces After Ron Wood and Rod Stewart Joined the band).

It was Mac's (Ian) trademark B3 you heard on Small Faces' Itchycoo Park, Rod Stewart's Maggie May and You Wear It Well among many others. It still cranking out that signature sound like it was still new.

 Check out the Ian McLagan produced 4 Cd Box Set of FACES tunes tittled - 5 Guys Walk Into a Bar.  Visit Ian McLagans website - www.ianmclagan.com and get your CD set now. It is awesome! I really enjoyed Ian and his Bump Band. What a great Icon of Rock and Roll.