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Wednesday
28 February 2007
Navasota-Rio! Long-time readers of these scribblings will surely know that my primary focus is on the bands and music of The Golden Age of Rock and Roll, and the bands and music that have come along, after that era ended, but that meet the standards and employ the style of those times. For that reason, I am very happy to announce that I have discovered another band that not only carries on this tradition, but also had an earlier incarnation back in the day! The year was 1969. The new Blues Rock music had taken the country by storm, and five lads from Southeast Texas had their own vision of how to create this sound. Steve Long (guitar), Ray Pawlik (guitar), Dicky Sony (vocals), Lindsey Minter (drums), and Paul Minter (bass) formed the band Navasota! By 1972, Navasota had signed a record deal with ABC-Dunhill Records, and they were off to Los Angeles to record the album Rootin'. This album was produced by Gary Katz, and Donald Fagen and Walter Becker of Steely Dan fame! Such artists as Skunk Baxter and Mark Volman and Howie Kaylan, from The Turtles, were featured on the album; and Donald Fagen also played piano on some of the songs. Fagen and Becker even wrote the song "Canyon Ladies" for the effort. When Navasota first started touring to promote Rootin', groups such as Lynyrd Skynyrd, REO Speedwagon, and Boston opened up the shows for them. They were the first band to play in the Houston Astrodome, along with Deep Purple and J. Geils. This rockin' band from Texas set a blaze going from east to west during the 1970's. As the 1970's wore on, they toured, throughout the world, with such artists as Humble Pie, Joe Cocker, Wishbone Ash, Trapeze, Cheech and Chong, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Jo Jo Gunn, Canned Heat, ELO, David Bowie, Johnny Winters, Mountain, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, The Allman Brothers, Tony Joe White, Black Oak Arkansas, Red Bone, John Lee Hooker, Dr. Hook, Doug Saum, ZZ Top, Molly Hatchet, Blackfoot, Bad Finger, Peter Frampton, Rick Derringer, Elton John, Ten Years After, Frank Zappa, Spirit, Marshall Tucker, Savoy Brown, Chuck Berry, Ted Nugent, Edgar Winters, Rita Coolidge, Jefferson Airplane, Santana, The Chambers Brothers and many, many more. By 1979, Navasota had run its course, and the group disbanded. In 2005, after a long detour through other music genres, one of the founding members of Navasota, drummer Lindsey Minter, decided to return to the music that he loved the most. He called upon other musicians, who had been raised in the musical traditions of those awesome times, during the 1960's and 1970's, to form a new incarnation of Navasota, known as Navasota-Rio. This is a band that brings a whole new perspective to the music of the Golden Age of Rock and Roll!! "Combine the powerful, distinctive guitar sounds of John Donaghy and Mik Fenn, the driving, grooving beats of Lindsey Minter on drums, the thumpin' rhythm of Darrell Owens on bass, and then top it off with the Memphis sound of vocalist Lance Cardin and you've got a recipe that will rock your senses!! Once you get the whole mix, throw in a dash of Texas blues, and you are serving up an unbelievable listening experience."  For a sample of some of their latest tunes go to http://www.MySpace.com/NavasotaRio To book Navasota-Rio contact: A. Leger Music Productions Alan Leger 409-429-3446 Jokernomadd@aol.com $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
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