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VL 901097X-LP
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Reissue of Brian Knight's A Dark Horse, originally released in 1981. Blues singer and harmonica player Brian Knight (1939-2001) is counted as one of the initial members of The Rolling Stones. Co-founder of Brian Jones's first band together with Ian Stewart and Dick Taylor (later Pretty Things), among others. Musical disagreement with Jones, who fancied Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry while Knight was a Muddy Waters follower, led to his departure from the group -- later to be replaced by Jagger and Richards. He formed his own Blues By Six band, frequently with Charlie Watts on drums, and spent the following years touring and playing London clubs. In the seventies, he continued with Bradford-Knight Blues Band. Always a high-profile act on the English blues circuit, Knight has performed with many known artists through the decades, such as Rick Wakeman, Peter Green, Paul Jones, Zoot Money, Ronnie Lane, Charie Watts, Chris Farlowe, and many more. After two successful decades of touring and performing, he finally got to record his debut in 1981 on the independent label PVK Records. The album is a mix of standard blues and rock numbers as traditional "white blues", sometimes reminding of early British R&B from Cyril Davies or Alexis Korner. It features Dick Heckstall-Smith (Colosseum) on sax, Peter Green on guitar and Stones' own Charlie Watts on drums.
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