Luther Kent

Luther Kent — also sometimes referred to as Big Luther Kent or Amos Kent, so that as Duke Royal — is a fixture in the brand new Orleans music picture since the middle-’60s. Blessed Kent Rowell in New Orleans in 1948, he originated from a intensely musical home; his whole family members performed and sang music jointly, and his old brother was an associate of Stark Whiteman & the Crowns, who frequently rehearsed in the Rowell house. He started playing piano and drums young, although he originally had no dreams as a vocalist. That transformed in 1961 when he was moved into into a college talent display and won your competition, apparently with an impromptu edition of “In the Still of the night time.” He considered singing, seriously influenced from the R&B and early spirit noises around him, and by age group 14 is at a music group and soon thereafter got his first documenting agreement, using the Louisiana-based Montel Information label, liberating his first solitary, “I Wanna Understand,” beneath the name Duke Royal. He spent a lot of the middle- to past due ’60s singing having a music group known as the Greek Fountains. In the beginning of the 1970s, nevertheless, he became a member of a Baton Rouge-spawned group known as Cold Grits, who have been authorized to Lou Adler’s Ode Information label and included his cousin Duke Bardwell on bass. But Chilly Grits split up before they could easily get greater than a solitary released, which remaining Kent linked with Ode contractually, but with out a music group. It was at this time that he was asked to front side the post-David Clayton-Thomas incarnation of Bloodstream, Perspiration & Tears on tour, which he do through a lot of 1974 and 1975 and section of 1976. He was still under agreement to Ode Information, nevertheless, which avoided him from ever documenting using the group (that was authorized to Columbia Information). He documented his first single album, entitled TOP NOTCH, in London at Abbey Street Studios, with musical support that included the Brecker Brothers and people from the London Symphony Orchestra as well as the London Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1978, Kent became a member of with Charlie Brent, the previous musical movie director for Wayne Cochran, developing a big New Orleans horn music group christened Luther Kent & Technique Bag. Numerous visitor artists visiting the town came to sit down in with Technique Handbag, including Boz Scaggs, B.B. Ruler, Slim Harpo, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Jimmy Web page, Bonnie Bramlett, Gregg Allman, Etta Adam, Joe Cocker, Bo Diddley, Rita Coolidge, the Righteous Brothers, Ike & Tina Turner, Wilson Pickett, ZZ Best, Rickie Lee Jones, Billy Preston, and Billy Eckstine. Luther Kent & Technique Handbag released three albums on Compact disc, and Kent started a profession in television advertisements aswell, which gained him a Cleo Prize employed in tandem with John Fred. He was agreed upon to FM Information in 1987, and afterwards, with manufacturer Mike Post, documented the album OVERDUE. Because of Post, who was simply also well-established in neuro-scientific tv music, Kent was noticed singing over the name theme towards the series Cop Rock and roll. In newer years, he provides released many albums of New Orleans music.