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2 unusual facts about Carey Bell


Freddie Roulette

Earl Hooker's band, with pianist Pinetop Perkins, harmonica player Carey Bell, vocalist Andrew Odom, and Roulette, was "widely acclaimed" and "considered as one of the best Earl had ever carried with him".

Mike Sanchez

Sanchez and the Big Town Playboys headlined many European music festivals and worked with several noted blues musicians, such as Jimmy Nelson, Lowell Fulson, Carey Bell, Don and Dewey, Little Willie Littlefield and Joe Hughes.


Gary Kendall

As the house band at Toronto's Black Swan Tavern, the Kendall Wall Blues Band played with such blues legends as A.C. Reed, Pinetop Perkins, Eddy Clearwater, Tinsley Ellis, Little Willie Littlefield, Chubby Carrier, Bernard Allison, Eddie C. Campbell, Lefty Dizz, Eddie "Clean Head" Vinson, Eddie Shaw, Carey Bell and Fenton Robinson.

Rooster Blues

Over the next 12 years, Rooster Blues released albums by artists like Magic Slim, Eddy Clearwater, John Littlejohn, Lonnie Pitchford, Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes, James "Son" Thomas, Larry Davis, Valerie Wellington, Carey Bell, Willie Cobbs, Super Chikan, and Lonnie Shields.


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