Beki Brindle grew up playing lead guitar with the legendary James “Yank” Rachell of ‘Diving Duck’ and ‘She Caught The Katy’ fame.
In 1983, she was invited to Woodstock, NY by Rick Danko and Richard Manuel from THE BAND who had discovered her at Indiana University playing blues! Subsequently, Beki joined The Tom Pacheco band, and the Eric Andersen tour band.
“Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fuller… all the blind guys.” That’s how the multi-instrumentalist John Mayall, one of the chief architects of the British blues revival of the 1960s, who died at 90 yesterday at his home in California, described the influences that shaped his musical tastes and inspired a career that stretched across six decades.
He was best known not for his own playing or singing but for recruiting and polishing the talents of one gifted lead guitarist after another, starting with Eric Clapton.
John Mayall, the pioneering British bandleader whose mid-1960s blues ensembles served as incubators for some of the biggest stars of rock’s golden era, died on Monday. He was 90.