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Arthur Adams has a singled entitled I Love You More from his 2023 album Kick Up Some Dust. It's another beautiful song, and his voice and music makes you want to listen to the song in its entirety.
Arthur Adams blues guitarist from Medon, Tennessee. Inspired by B.B. King and other 1950s artists, he played gospel music before attending college. He moved to Los Angeles, and during the 1960s and 1970s he released solo albums and worked as a session musician. In 1985 he was tapped to tour on bass guitar with Nina Simone,[1] and he staged a comeback in the 1990s when he released Back on Track, and became a respected Chicago blues player and bandleader in B.B. King's clubs.
A prolific songwriter, with a blues style that incorporated a variety of genres, and a vocalist with a funky, soul-driven sound, Adams is known for his collaboration with many of blues' elite and continues to perform to date.
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Today's topic, Arthur Adams. ArthurAdams has a singled entitled I Love You
More from his two thousand twenty threealbum Kick Up Some Dust. It's another
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beautiful song and his voice and musicmakes you want to listen to the song
in its entirety. Arthur Adams isa blues guitarist from Meddon, Tennessee.
Inspired by B. B. Kingand other nineteen fifties artist, he played
gospel music before attending college. Hemoved to Los Angeles, and during the
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nineteen sixties and nineteen seventies he releasedsolo albums and worked as a session musician.
In nineteen five, he was tappedto tour on bass guitar with Nina
Simone, and he staged a comebackin the nineteen nineties when he released Back
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on Track and became a respected Chicagoblues player and bandleader in B. B.
King's clubs. A prolific songwriter witha blues style that incorporated a variety
of genres, and a vocalist witha funky, soul driven sound, Adams
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is known for his collaboration with manyof blues's elite and continues to perform to
date. I'm Gale Nobles, andyou're listening to current blues alive
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