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Dennis Quaid & The Sharks
Udgivelses år
2019
Varenummer
816651010677
Pris pr stk199,95 DKK
Dennis Quaid & The Sharks’ origins can be traced to a night when Quaid went to see actor Harry Dean Stanton and his longtime band perform in Los Angeles. Quaid was invited to join them onstage. At first reluctant, because of his decade-long layoff from music, Quaid finally acquiesced, and his performance sparked a musical kinship between Jamie James—guitar player in Stanton’s band and the Kingbees’ front man—and Quaid that led to them forming their own band.
James quickly began recruiting others and it wasn’t long before Dennis Quaid & The Sharks were performing on the L.A. club circuit. Quaid was certainly no stranger to either the recording studio or the stage; as a seasoned actor he’d cut songs for soundtracks to his movies dating back to the ’80s, among them The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia, Tough Enough, and The Big Easy.
Music had always been important to Quaid: “As far back as I can remember, music has always been a big part of my life. My third cousin was Gene Autry, the original Western movie singing cowboy. My grandmother played piano and sang songs from the ’20s, songs from her youth. My dad played piano and crooned like Bing Crosby and looked a little like Dean Martin.”
Among Quaid’s musical heroes you’ll find Buddy Holly, Hank Williams, Willie & Waylon, Johnny Cash, the Beatles, The Doors, James Brown, and more. With influences like those, it’s no surprise that members of The Sharks have serious musical pedigrees of their own: Jamie James leads The Kingbees and The Sharks; Tom Mancillas, Ken Stange, and Tom Walsh have worked over the years with artists as varied as Harry Dean Stanton, Roger Miller, Tina Turner, Joe Cocker, Supertramp, America, and more!
In 2018 Dennis Quaid & The Sharks made the first studio album of their 18-year history, Out Of The Box, now available on vinyl for Record Store Day. On it you’ll find they specialize in “rock ’n’ roll and country-soul,” or as Quaid calls it, “a junkyard of American music.” The album, cut at the legendary Village Studios in Los Angeles and produced by Quaid and James, is filled with original songs by Quaid plus a rousing cover of Larry Williams’ “Slow Down.”
The band tours as often as Quaid’s schedule will allow and he says the shows are as much fun for those in attendance as they are for the band.