Terry Adams and Marshall Allen

If the word "eclectic" didn't exist, someone would have to coin a similar term to describe the music of Terry Adams. Adams is best known as the keyboard player and founder of NRBQ, one of America's great unheralded rock bands of the 1970s and '80s. NRBQ was well known for following any number of musical paths, and Adams' solo work has shown he's similarly unwilling to confine himself to one stylistic framework as he interprets rock, blues, jazz, and experimental music -- sometimes all at once -- in his own playful manner. Terry Adams was born in Louisville, KY, on August 14,...