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Blues
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| Descriptive "tags": |
blues • female vocalists • soul • blues rock • austin
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| Decades Active: |
1980s
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1990s
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| Links online: |
Wikipedia
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Biography
17 February 1954, Fort Worth, Texas, USA. In the early 70s, Barton sprang fully formed into the Texas barroom blues scene. She divided her time between singing with Robert Ealey And His Five Careless Lovers in her home town, performing with the Dallas band run by Marc Benno (ex-Asylum Choir), and picking up gigs around the Austin clubs, including an early prototype of the Fabulous Thunderbirds. In 1976, Stevie Ray Vaughan chose her to be a member of the Triple Threat Revue, the third being singer/guitarist W.C. Clark. When Clark quit, the band changed its name to Double Trouble. With two strong personalities vying for the spotlight, trouble was, unsurprisingly, not long in coming, and towards the end of 1979, Barton announced that she was joining Roomful Of Blues for a tour of north-west USA. In 1982, Glenn Frey and Jerry Wexler produced her first solo album, Old Enough, which was recorded in Muscle Shoals. Unfortunately, her personal habits and the unreliability...
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