Jonny Lang
Background information
Born	(1981-01-29) January 29, 1981 (age 31)
Genres	Gospel, rock, blues
Instruments	Vocals, guitar
Years active	1995–present
Website	http://www.jonnylang.com/

Jonny Lang (born Jon Gordon Langseth, Jr., January 29, 1981) is a Grammy Award-winning American blues, gospel, and rock singer, songwriter, guitarist and recording artist. Lang's music is notable for both his unusual voice, which has been compared to that of a forty-year-old blues veteran,^[1] and for his guitar solos. His solo patterns have especially been noted for the constant use of wide vibratos.

Bio[link]

Jonny Lang was born in Fargo, North Dakota, United States. He started playing the guitar at the age of twelve, after his father took him to see the Bad Medicine Blues Band, one of the few blues bands in Fargo. Lang soon started taking guitar lessons from Ted Larsen, the band's guitar player. Several months after Lang began, he joined the band, which was then renamed Kid Jonny Lang & The Big Bang.

The band moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and independently released the album Smokin' when Lang was fourteen. Lang was signed to A&M Records in 1996. He released the critically acclaimed multi-platinum Lie to Me on January 28, 1997. The next album, Wander this World, was released on October 20, 1998 and earned a Grammy nomination. This was followed by the more soulful Long Time Coming on October 14, 2003. Lang also made a cover of Edgar Winter's "Dying to Live". Lang's 2006 album, the gospel influenced Turn Around, won him his first Grammy Award.

In more than ten years on the road, Lang has toured with the Rolling Stones, Buddy Guy, Aerosmith, B.B. King, Blues Traveler, Jeff Beck and Sting. In 1999, he was invited to play for a White House audience including President and Mrs. Clinton. Lang also makes a cameo appearance in the film Blues Brothers 2000 as a janitor. In 2004, Eric Clapton asked Lang to play at the Crossroads Guitar Festival to raise money for the Crossroads Centre Antigua.

Lang also appears regularly as a part of the Experience Hendrix Tour along with many other well-known guitarists to pay tribute the deceased guitar legend.

Musical equipment[link]

Jonny Lang originally used Benedict guitars but now mainly uses a Fender Telecaster Thinline made by the Fender Custom Shop. He also takes out a Gibson Les Paul for some occasions. The Telecaster Thinline has a Spruce body, maple top and birdseye maple neck. He uses Bill Lawrence Pickups (500L Neck, 500XL Bridge) and a Seymour Duncan P-90 in the middle. He uses a Route 66 pedal of Visual Sound and a Vox 847 reissue Wah Wah pedal for some songs. Live, he plays through a pair of Fender Deluxe Reverb Reissue Amps. Jonny also used an arbiter Fuzz Face and an Electro Harmonix POG for The Experience Hendrix tour.

Band personnel[link]

From 1993 to 1996, Lang's backing band was The Big Bang. This group consisted of three founding members of the Bad Medicine Blues Band: Ted "Lightnin' Boy" Larsen on guitar, his brother Michael Rey Larsen on drums, and Jeff Hayenga on bass. Keyboardist Bruce McCabe joined The Big Bang in 1995 after Lang and this young band from Fargo impressed him with their set opening for McCabe's band at the time, The Hoopsnakes.

From 1996 to 2004, Lang's backing band included Paul Diethelm on guitar, Bruce McCabe on keyboards, Doug Nelson on bass and Billy Thommes on drums. Also appearing on keyboards during 2003 and in 2004 was Donnie La Marca in place of McCabe when he had to leave the road for some time. Nelson was killed in a traffic accident in 2000 and was replaced by Billy Franze. Franze was in turn replaced by Jim Anton in 2003. Saxophone player David Eiland was added in 2000, providing Lang with a foil for extended instrumental jams. In 2005, Lang replaced the entire lineup, except for Anton, and embarked on an acoustic tour. He performed with Wendy Alane Wright at the 2000 pre-Grammy party. New guitarist Reeve Carney was also the Lang band's opening act for several shows in 2005 and as well as the 2006 and 2007 tours. The new band also includes organist and Houston, Texas native Charles Jones, plus drummer Barry Alexander and organist Bill Brown from Minneapolis.

Personal life[link]

Lang married his girlfriend, Haylie Johnson, on June 8, 2001. They have three children; twins, Raimy and Saylor, and a daughter Renn. They live in Los Angeles, California.

Discography[link]

• 1995 Smokin' (as Kid Jonny Lang & The Big Bang)
• 1997 Lie to Me
• 1998 Wander This World
• 2003 Long Time Coming
• 2006 Turn Around
• 2009 Live At The Ryman

Guest appearances[link]

• 1997 A Very Special Christmas 3, performs on track "Santa Claus is Back in Town."
• 1998 Blues Brothers 2000 original soundtrack, performs on track "634-5789 (Soulsville, U.S.A.)."
• 1998 Heavy Love album by Buddy Guy, performs on track "Midnight Train."
• 1999 Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions album by Shannon Curfman performs on multiple tracks, and co-wrote "Love Me Like That."
• 1999 For Love of the Game (film) original soundtrack, performs a cover of "Paint It Black"
• 2000 It Ain't Nothin' But The Blues original cast recording, performs on tracks "Someone Else is Steppin' In" and "The Thrill is Gone."
• 2000 This Time Around album by Hanson, performs on "You Never Know", "This Time Around" and "Hand in Hand"
• 2000 Milk Cow Blues album by Willie Nelson, performs on "Ain't Nobody's Business" and "Rainy Day Blues"
• 2001 Been a Long Time album by Double Trouble, performs on "Ground Hog Day" along with Gordie Johnson of Big Sugar.
• 2004 All Things New album by Steven Curtis Chapman, performs on "Only Getting Started"
• 2004 Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival, performs Give Me Up Again
• 2005 Possibilities album by Herbie Hancock, Lang sings and plays guitar on the track "When Love Comes to Town" along with Joss Stone.
• 2007 A Deeper Level album by Israel Houghton, Lang plays and sings duet with Israel on the track "You Are Not Forgotten".
• 2009 Oh Happy Day compilation album, performs "I Believe" with the Fisk Jubilee Singers.^[2] Lang performed the song live on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno April 16, 2009.^[3]
• 2009 Lines, Vines and Trying Times album by Jonas Brothers, guest guitar on "Hey Baby"
• 2010 Up Close album by Eric Johnson, Vocals on "Austin"^[4]
• 2010 What We Want, What We Get album by Dave Barnes, guest guitar and vocals on "What I Need"
• 2010 6 String Theory" album by Lee Ritenour, featured on track "Why I Sing The Blues" Feat. B.B. King and Vince Gill
• 2010 Memphis Blues album by Cyndi Lauper, Guest vocals on "Crossroads", And "How Blue Can You Get?"
• 2010 Guitar Heaven album by Santana, Vocals on "I Ain't Superstitious"
• 2010 Crossroads Guitar Festival, DVD Various Artists, Performs on “Five Long Years” – and “Miss You” – w/ Buddy Guy & Ronnie Wood
• 2011 ZZ Top: A Tribute from Friends, Album by Various Artists, Performs on “Sharp Dressed Man” – as the M.O.B. w/ Mick Fleetwood, Steven Tyler & John McVie

Filmography and television appearances[link]

• 1998 Blues Brothers 2000
• 1998 The Drew Carey Show episode "In Ramada Da Vida" (cameo)^[5]

References[link]

Ronnie Wood
Background information
Birth name	Ronald David Wood
Born	(1947-06-01) 1 June 1947 (age 65) Hillingdon, Middlesex, England
Genres	Rock, blues, blues rock, rock and roll, psychedelic rock, hard rock
Occupations	Musician, songwriter, record producer, painter, Radio personality
Instruments	Guitar, bass, pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar, harmonica, saxophone, drums, vocals, nose flute
Years active	1964–present
Labels	Warner Bros.
Associated acts	The Birds, The Creation, The Jeff Beck Group, Faces, The Rolling Stones, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, The Insects, The New Barbarians
Website	www.ronniewood.com
Notable instruments
Various Zemaitis models ESP Ron Wood signature model Duesenberg signature model Versoul guitars Fender Stratocaster

Ronald David "Ronnie" Wood (born 1 June 1947) is an English rock guitarist and bassist best known as a former member of The Jeff Beck Group, Faces, and a member of The Rolling Stones since 1975. He also plays lap and pedal steel guitar.

Wood began his career in 1964, when he joined The Birds on guitar.^[1] He then joined the mod group The Creation, but only remained with the group for a short time, and appeared on a small number of singles. Wood joined The Jeff Beck Group in 1967. They released two albums, Truth and Beck-Ola, which became moderate successes. The group split in 1969, and Wood departed along with lead vocalist Rod Stewart to join former Small Faces members Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan, and Kenney Jones in a new group, dubbed the Faces. The group, although relegated to "cult" status in the US, found great success in the UK and mainland Europe. The Faces released their debut album, First Step, in 1970. The group went on to release Long Player and A Nod Is as Good as a Wink... to a Blind Horse in 1971. Their last LP, entitled Ooh La La, was released in 1973. After the group split, Wood began several solo projects, eventually recording his first solo LP, I've Got My Own Album to Do, in 1974. The album featured former bandmate McLagan as well as former Beatle George Harrison and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones, a longtime friend of Wood's. Richards soon invited Wood to join The Rolling Stones, after the departure of Mick Taylor. Wood joined in 1975, and has remained a member ever since.^[1]

Besides I've Got My Own Album to Do, Wood has recorded several other solo efforts. Now Look was released in 1975, and peaked at number 118 on Billboard, and Wood collaborated with Ronnie Lane for the soundtrack album Mahoney's Last Stand. He released Gimme Some Neck in 1979, which hit number 45 in the US. 1234 was released in 1981, peaking at number 164. He released Slide on This in 1992, Not for Beginners came out in 2002.^[1] and I Feel Like Playing in 2010. As a member of the Rolling Stones, Wood was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989, and was inducted a second time, as a member of Faces, in April 2012.^[2][3]

Music career[link]

1960s[link]

Wood began his career as a professional musician in 1964 as a guitarist with The Birds, an R&B band based in Yiewsley, West London. A popular live act with a considerable fan base, The Birds released several singles in the mid-1960s;^[4] Wood wrote or co-wrote nearly half the songs the group recorded.^[5]

By 1967 the Birds had disbanded, and Wood briefly took part in a project called Santa Barbara Machine Head before joining the Jeff Beck Group as a bassist. Along with vocalist Rod Stewart, Wood did several tours with Beck, and recorded two albums: Truth in 1968 and Beck-Ola in 1969. In between Jeff Beck Group projects Wood also worked with The Creation.^[6]

In 1969, after Steve Marriott left the Small Faces, Wood began working with the remaining members of that group, returning to his instrument of choice: the guitar. This line-up, plus Rod Stewart and ex-Bird Kim Gardner, teamed up with Wood's brother Art Wood in a formation called Quiet Melon, making a handful of recordings in May 1969.^[6] After the Jeff Beck Group's fifth US tour in July, Wood and Stewart joined the former Small Faces full-time, and the band's name was changed to Faces.^[7]

1970s[link]

Wood (left) whilst in Faces, with Rod Stewart (right)

In the first half of the 1970s, Faces released four studio albums and were among the top-grossing live acts of the period.^[8] Besides his distinctive guitar work, Wood contributed harmonica, vocals and bass to the band's recordings, and co-wrote many of their songs, including "Stay With Me" and "Ooh La La". He also played on bandmate Stewart's first few solo albums, and is co-writer of the Rod Stewart songs "Gasoline Alley" and "Every Picture Tells a Story",^[6] as well as several songs on Never a Dull Moment.

In 1972, Wood and Faces bassist Ronnie Lane composed the soundtrack to the film Mahoney's Last Stand;^[6] the soundtrack, which was released as an LP in 1976, also features Faces bandmates Ian McLagan and Kenney Jones, along with contributions from Pete Townshend and Ric Grech. Wood also performed with Townshend, Grech, Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi and Eric Clapton at Clapton's Rainbow Concert in 1973.

In December 1973, Wood collaborated with Mick Jagger on the song "It's Only Rock'n Roll (But I Like It)".^[9] Both Jagger and Keith Richards contributed to Wood's first solo album, I've Got My Own Album to Do, released in 1974^[6] and recorded at Wood's private studio in the basement of his home in London, The Wick.

Wood in Candlestick Park on tour with The Rolling Stones

Following Mick Taylor's departure from the Rolling Stones in December 1974, Wood participated in the band's March 1975 recording sessions for their forthcoming album Black and Blue.^[10][11] Although still a member of the Faces, he toured North America with the Rolling Stones in 1975; the Faces announced their break-up in December of that year, and Wood was officially declared a member of the Rolling Stones in February 1976.^[12]

NME – August 1976^[13]

In the Rolling Stones, Wood plays the slide guitar as Taylor had done before him, adding both lap steel and pedal steel guitar. In addition, Wood, as his predecessors did, exchanges roles on the guitar with Richards, often blurring the boundaries between rhythm and lead, even within a particular song.^[14] He also occasionally plays bass guitar, as seen during 1975 concert performances of "Fingerprint File", when Mick Jagger played rhythm guitar and bassist Bill Wyman moved to synthesizer. The Rolling Stones single "Emotional Rescue" also features Wood on bass. He has been given credit as a co-writer for a dozen songs, including "Dance", "Black Limousine", "One Hit (to the Body)" and "Had It With You".

In 1975, Wood released his second solo album, Now Look; his third, Gimme Some Neck, came out in 1979. To promote it, Wood formed and toured with The New Barbarians, playing 20 concerts in Canada and the US in April/May and the Knebworth Festival in the UK in August.^[15][16]

1980s[link]

Throughout the 1980s, Wood played as a member of the Rolling Stones; continued his solo career, releasing the album 1234 in 1981; painted; and collaborated with a number of other artists, including Prince, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Eric Clapton, Bo Diddley, Ringo Starr and Aretha Franklin.

At the 1985 Live Aid Concert in Philadelphia, Wood along with Keith Richards performed in the penultimate set with Bob Dylan. During the performance of "Blowin' in the Wind", one of Dylan's guitar strings broke. Wood gave Dylan his guitar in order to keep the performance seamless, and played air guitar until a stagehand brought him a replacement.^[17]

In 1988 Wood opened "Woody's on the Beach" in Miami, a club featuring a house band headed by Bobby Keys, hosting performances by local acts, friends of Wood's and occasionally Wood himself. The defunct hotel which housed the club allowed Wood to set up a VIP area upstairs, displaying Wood's artwork and providing private party areas. The club was popular, but was closed due to complaints from neighbours who found it too loud.^[18]

1990s-2010s[link]

Wood (left) with Keith Richards (right) as an official Rolling Stone

In 1990 Wood was made a fully-fledged partner in the Rolling Stones' financial organization.^[19] During the 1990s the Rolling Stones released two studio albums and three concert albums, as well as touring in 1990, 1994–95 and 1997–99.^[10]

In addition, Wood released his seventh solo album, Slide On This, in 1992; he toured to promote this album in North America and Japan. His appearance in 1993 with former bandmate Rod Stewart on MTV Unplugged resulted in a hit album entitled Unplugged...and Seated; the concert album that Wood released in 1993 from his own tour was called Slide On Live: Plugged In and Standing.^[10]

Wood also contributed to Bo Diddley's 1996 album A Man Amongst Men, playing slide guitar on the tracks "Hey Baby", "A Man Amongst Men" and "Oops! Bo Diddley" and guitar on "I Can't Stand It".

Since 2000 Wood has continued to combine solo work with his Rolling Stones schedule. Following the 2001 release of his album Not For Beginners, Wood toured England and Ireland in 2001 and 2002 with his own group, The Ronnie Wood Band. The band included members of his own family, Slash and Andrea Corr. After the tour a DVD called Far East Man was released.

Wood toured with the Rolling Stones in 2002 and 2003; in 2004 he performed several one-off concerts and guest appearances, including a number of appearances with Rod Stewart. Later in the year the two expressed intentions of finishing the studio work on a collaborative album to be entitled You Strum and I'll Sing. In 2005, however, Wood was again busy with the Rolling Stones as they recorded their A Bigger Bang album. Although only playing on ten of the album's sixteen tracks, Wood embarked on the tour which ran through till August 2007.^[10]

In 2005 Wood launched his own record company, Wooden Records, which has released recordings by his daughter Leah, The New Barbarians and others.

Wood with the Rolling Stones at Virginia Tech. (2005)

In November 2006, during a break in the Rolling Stones' A Bigger Bang tour, Wood played guitar on three tracks for British soul artist Beverley Knight's album Music City Soul, released in 2007.^[10]

On 9 May 2009, Wood along with Red Hot Chili Peppers members Anthony Kiedis, Michael "Flea" Balzary, Chad Smith and musician Ivan Neville performed under the name, The Insects at the fifth annual MusiCares event honoring Kiedis.^[20]

On 11 August 2009 Wood joined Pearl Jam on the stage of Shepherd's Bush Empire in London for a performance of "All Along the Watchtower".^{[citation needed]}

Ronnie Wood, Bill Wyman and Mick Hucknall at Faces reunion performance, 25 October 2009

On 25 October 2009, Wood, Ian McLagan and Kenny Jones joined forces for a Faces performance at London's Royal Albert Hall on behalf of the Performing Rights Society's Music Members' Benevolent Fund. Bill Wyman played bass and lead vocals were shared by several performers, notably Mick Hucknall.^[21] Rod Stewart, who had earlier denied rumours of plans for a Faces reunion in 2009,^[22] was not present.

On 2 November 2009 Wood was given an "Outstanding Contribution" award at the Classic Rock Roll of Honour ceremony in London. Pete Townshend presented the award.^[23][24]

Since 9 April 2010, Wood has presented his own radio show on Absolute Radio. Airing on Saturday night from 10pm, the show lasts one hour and consists of Wood playing tracks by artists he has worked with and other personal favourites.^[25]

In May 2011 Ronnie Wood won the Sony Radio Personality of the Year award for The Ronnie Wood Show.^[26]

Personal life[link]

Wood with promoter Joseph Donofrio, 2006.

Wood was born in Hillingdon, London, into a family of English "water gypsies" (river/canal barge operators, sometimes also called "bargees"). He has said that his generation was the first in the family to be born on dry land.^[27] He grew up in Yiewsley and attended St Stephen's Primary School and St Matthew's Church of England Secondary School, Yiewsley.^[28]

Both of his older brothers, Art and Ted, were graphic artists as well as musicians. Ted Wood died in 2004, and Art Wood in 2006.^[29]

Wood has four children. Jesse is his son with his first wife, Krissy (née Findlay), a former model to whom he was married from 1971 to 1978; (during this time he had an affair with George Harrison's former wife, Pattie Boyd). Krissy died in 2005. In 1985 Wood married his second wife, Jo Wood (née Karslake), mother of his daughter Leah and son Tyrone; her son Jamie from a previous relationship completes the family. Also a former model, Jo Wood has developed a successful line of organic beauty products.^[30] The Woods own homes in Kingston Vale in Greater London and County Kildare, Ireland.^[31]

Wood has been frank about his struggle with alcoholism; although reports between 2003 and 2006 had indicated that he had been sober since the Rolling Stones' 2002-03 tour, in June 2006 it was reported that Wood was entering rehab for a couple of weeks following a spell of increased alcohol abuse.^[32][33] By July 2008, ITN news reported that Wood had checked himself into rehab a total of six times; the last time being before the wedding of his daughter Leah. He had plans once again for a seventh admission.^[34]

In July 2008 he left his wife for Ekaterina Ivanova (variously reported to be between 18 and 21 years old at the time), whom he had met in a London club.^[35] Wood checked into rehab again on 16 July 2008.^[36][37] Jo Wood filed for divorce and was granted a decree nisi in November 2009.^[38]

On 3 December 2009, Wood was arrested over assault "in connection with a domestic incident".^[39] He was officially cautioned for this offence on 22 December 2009.^[40] Following this incident, Wood and Ivanova parted ways, and Ivanova later asserted that at his worst Wood drank up to a litre of spirits a day, took cocaine and chain smoked up to 50 cigarettes.^[41]

He is currently dating model Ana Paula Araújo.[1]

Artwork[link]

Wood is a well-known visual artist. When he was a child his drawings were featured on the BBC television programme Sketch Club; he won one of that programme's competitions, an achievement he refers to as his "awakening to art".^[42] He went on to train at the Ealing Art College, as both his brothers had. Other notable musicians, Freddie Mercury of Queen, and Pete Townshend of The Who, also attended in the 1960s.^[43]

Wood's paintings, drawings and prints frequently feature icons of popular culture and have been exhibited all over the world. Several of his paintings, including a work commissioned by Andrew Lloyd-Webber, are displayed at London's Drury Lane Theatre.^[44] Art critic Brian Sewell has called Wood "an accomplished and respectable artist";^[45] and the South Bank Show has devoted an entire programme to his artwork.^[46] Liberty & Co. has produced a clothing line using fabrics printed with Wood's art.^[47] Wood has maintained a long-standing relationship with the San Francisco Art Exchange who first exhibited his work in 1987.^[48] Wood is also the co-owner (along with sons Jamie and Tyrone) of a London art gallery called Scream.^[49]

Books, films and television appearances[link]

To date, Wood has three books to his credit: a short collection of autobiographical anecdotes entitled The Works, illustrated with Wood's artwork, co-authored by Bill German and published in 1988; a limited-edition art book entitled Wood on Canvas: Every Picture Tells a Story, published in 1998; and his 2007 autobiography Ronnie, written in collaboration with his son in law Jack MacDonald and Jeffrey Robinson.

In addition to numerous Faces and Rolling Stones concert films, broadcasts and documentaries, Wood performed alongside The Band, Bob Dylan and many others in the finale of the documentary The Last Waltz, filmed in 1976.^[50] He has made cameo appearances in feature films including The Deadly Bees (1967), The Wild Life (1984) and 9½ Weeks (1986), as well as on television programmes including The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash (1978).^[51][52] In October 2007 Wood appeared on the television motor show Top Gear, achieving a celebrity lap time of 1:49.4.^[53]

Solo discography[link]

• I've Got My Own Album to Do (1974)
• Now Look (1975) US #118
• Mahoney's Last Stand (1976) with Ronnie Lane
• Gimme Some Neck (1979) US #45
• 1234 (1981) US #164
• Live at the Ritz (1988) with Bo Diddley
• Slide on This (1992)
• Slide on Live: Plugged in and Standing (1993)
• Live and Eclectic (2000) (reissued in 2002 as Live at Electric Ladyland)
• Not for Beginners (2001)
• Ronnie Wood Anthology: The Essential Crossexion (2006)
• Buried Alive: Live in Maryland (2006) with The New Barbarians
• The First Barbarians: Live from Kilburn (2007)
• I Feel Like Playing (2010) UK #164

See also[link]

• 1974 in music
• 1985 in music

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Ron Wood

• Ronnie Wood.com
• Ronnie Wood on Charlie Rose
• Ronnie Wood Artwork at Limelight Agency
• Scream Gallery
• Ronnie Wood at the Internet Movie Database
• Ronnie Wood collected news and commentary at The Guardian
• San Francisco Art Exchange

This article is about the American archaeologist; for others with the same name, see Philip Phillips (disambiguation).

Philip Phillips (11 August, 1900 – 11 December, 1994) was an influential archaeologist in the United States during the 20th century. Although his first graduate work was in architecture, he later received a doctorate from Harvard University under advisor Alfred Marston Tozzer. His first archaeological experiences were on Iroquois sites, but he specialized in the Mississippian culture, especially its Lower Mississippi Valley incarnation.

In 1937, he was appointed assistant curator of Southeastern Archaeology at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard. In 1949, he became its curator; and remained an honorary curator from his 1967 retirement until his death.

His professional collaborations with James A. Ford, James Bennett Griffin, and Gordon Willey have become some of the standard works of American archaeology.

His professional obituary, including a summary of his life's accomplishments, was written by his life-long colleague and collaborator Gordon R. Willey. It was published in 1996 by the Society for American Archaeology.

Published works[link]

Phillips' published works include:

• Brain, Jeffrey P. and Philip Phillips. 1996. Shell Gorgets: Styles of the Late Prehistoric and Protohistoric Southeast. Peabody Museum Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• Phillips, Philip. 1970. Archaeological Survey in the Lower Yazoo Basin, Mississippi, 1949-1955. Peabody Museum Papers, vol. 60. Harvard University, Cambridge.
• Phillips, Philip and J. A. Brown. 1975-83. Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings from the Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma. (6 volumes) Cambridge, Peabody Museum Press.
• Phillips, Philip and J. A. Brown. 1984. Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings from the Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma. (2-volume softbound edition) Cambridge, Peabody Museum Press.
• Phillips, Philip, James A. Ford, and James B. Griffin. 1951. Archaeological Survey in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, 1940-1947. Peabody Museum Papers, vol. 25. Harvard University, Cambridge.
• Willey, Gordon R. and Philip Phillips. 1958. Method and Theory in American Archaeology. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

References[link]

• Willey, Gordon R. Obituary: Philip Phillips 1900-1994. American Antiquity, Vol. 61, No. 1. (Jan., 1996), pp. 39-43.

Eddie Floyd
Background information
Birth name	Eddie Lee Floyd
Born	(1937-06-25) June 25, 1937 (age 74) Montgomery, Alabama, United States
Genres	Southern soul, R&B, soul
Occupations	Songwriter, musician
Years active	1956–present
Labels	Stax Records, Concord Music Group
Associated acts	The Falcons, Bill Wyman and the Rhythm Kings
Website	Eddiefloyd.com

Eddie Lee Floyd (born June 25, 1937)^[1][2] is an American soul/R&B singer and songwriter, best known for his work on the Stax record label in the 1960s and 1970s and the song "Knock on Wood".

Biography[link]

Floyd was born in Montgomery, Alabama, but grew up in Detroit, Michigan.^[1] He founded The Falcons, which also featured Mack Rice.^[1] They were forerunners to future Detroit vocal groups such as The Temptations and The Four Tops. Their most successful songs included "You're So Fine" and later, when Wilson Pickett was recruited into the group as the lead singer, "I Found a Love". Pickett then embarked on a solo career, and The Falcons disbanded.^[1]

Floyd signed on with the Memphis based Stax Records as a songwriter in 1965.^[1] He wrote a hit song, "Comfort Me" recorded by Carla Thomas. He then teamed with Stax's guitarist Steve Cropper to write songs for Wilson Pickett, now signed to Atlantic Records. Atlantic distributed Stax and Jerry Wexler brought Pickett down from New York to work with Booker T. & the MGs. The Pickett sessions were successful, yielding several pop and R&B hits, including the Floyd co-written "Ninety-Nine and a Half (Won't Do)" and "634-5789 (Soulsville USA)".^[1]

In 1966, Floyd recorded a song intended for Otis Redding. Wexler convinced Stax president Jim Stewart to release Floyd's version. The Steve Cropper/Eddie Floyd "Knock On Wood" launched Floyd's solo career,^[1] and has been cut by over a hundred different artists from David Bowie to Count Basie. It became a disco hit for Amii Stewart in 1979.

Floyd was one of Stax's most consistent and versatile artists. He scored several more hits on his own, including "I Never Found a Girl (To Love Me Like You Do)" and "Raise Your Hand",^[1] which was covered by both Janis Joplin and Bruce Springsteen.

The song "Big Bird" (featuring Booker T. Jones on organ and guitar, Al Jackson, Jr. on drums, and Donald "Duck" Dunn on bass) was written while Floyd waited in a London airport for a plane back to the United States for Otis Redding's funeral. Although not a US hit, it became an underground favorite in the UK, was later covered by The Jam, and was featured on the video game, Test Drive Unlimited.

Floyd's career did not keep him from being one of the label's most productive writers. Virtually every Stax artist recorded Floyd material, often co-written with either Cropper or Jones, including Sam & Dave ("You Don't Know What You Mean to Me"), Rufus Thomas ("The Breakdown"), Otis Redding ("I Love You More Than Words Can Say"), and Johnnie Taylor's "Just the One (I've Been Looking For)". The latter played during the opening credits of director Harold Ramis's film, Bedazzled.

Floyd, in 1980, also released material on the UK record label I-Spy Records owned and created by the UK band Secret Affair.^[1] He joined old Stax collaborators Cropper and Dunn, and fronted The Blues Brothers Band on a series of world tours, and in 1998, Floyd and former Falcon Wilson Pickett appeared on screen dueting on "634-5789" in Blues Brothers 2000.^[1]

As well as singing with The Blues Brothers Band, Floyd has been the special guest with former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings on several dates in the US and the UK.

In 2008, Floyd returned to Stax Records which is now owned by Concord Music Group. His first new album in six years, Eddie Loves You So released in July 2008.^[1][3]

Discography[link]

Singles[link]

Albums[link]

• Knock on Wood - (1967) - Stax
• Looking Back - (1968) - Ember Records
• Never Found a Girl - (1969) - Stax
• Rare Stamps - (1969) - Stax
• You've Got to Have Eddie - (1969) - Stax
• California Girl - (1970) - Stax
• Down to Earth - (1971) - Stax
• Baby Lay Your Head Down - (1973) - Stax
• Soul Street - (1974) - Stax
• Experience - (1978) - Malaco Records
• Flashback - (1988) - Ichiban Records
• Red, White & Blues (The Blues Brothers Band) - (1992) - Turnstyle Records
• Gotta Make a Comeback - (1999) - Plane Records
• To the Bone - (2002) - Rock House Records
• Eddie Loves You So - (2008) - Stax

References[link]

External links[link]

• Biography by Tim Whitsett III at official Floyd site
• Eddie Floyd interview by Pete Lewis, 'Blues & Soul' July 2011
• Soulsville USA: The Story of Stax Records By Rob Bowman
• Biography at History-of-Rock.com
• Eddie Floyd Biography at Allmusic
• Profile @ Soultracks.com

Mavis Staples
Background information
Birth name	Mavis Staples
Born	(1939-07-10) July 10, 1939 (age 72)
Origin	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Genres	Rhythm and blues, soul, gospel
Occupations	Singer
Years active	1950–present
Labels	Epic, Stax/Volt, Curtom, Paisley Park, Alligator, Anti-, Warner Bros., Verve
Associated acts	The Staple Singers
Website	www.mavisstaples.com

Mavis Staples (born July 10, 1939 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American rhythm and blues and gospel singer, actress and civil rights activist who recorded with The Staple Singers, her family's band.

Biography[link]

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Mavis Staples began her career with her family group in 1950. Initially singing locally at churches and appearing on a weekly radio show, the Staples scored a hit in 1956 with "Uncloudy Day" for the Vee-Jay label. When Mavis graduated from what is now Paul Robeson High School in 1957, The Staple Singers took their music on the road. Led by family patriarch Roebuck "Pops" Staples on guitar and including the voices of Mavis and her siblings Cleotha, Yvonne, and Purvis, the Staples were called "God's Greatest Hitmakers."

With Mavis' voice and Pops' songs, singing, and guitar playing, the Staples evolved from enormously popular gospel singers (with recordings on United and Riverside as well as Vee-Jay) to become the most spectacular and influential spirituality-based group in America. By the mid-1960s The Staple Singers, inspired by Pops' close friendship with Martin Luther King, Jr., became the spiritual and musical voices of the civil rights movement. They covered contemporary pop hits with positive messages, including Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" and a version of Stephen Stills' "For What It's Worth."

During a December 20, 2008 appearance on National Public Radio's news show "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me," when Staples was asked about her past personal relationship with Dylan, she admitted they "were good friends, yes indeed" and that he had asked her father for her hand in marriage.^[1]

The Staples sang "message" songs like "Long Walk to D.C." and "When Will We Be Paid?," bringing their moving and articulate music to a huge number of young people. The group signed to Stax Records in 1968, joining their gospel harmonies and deep faith with musical accompaniment from members of Booker T. and the MGs. The Staple Singers hit the Top 40 eight times between 1971 and 1975, including two No. 1 singles, "I'll Take You There" and "Let's Do It Again," and a No. 2 single "Who Took the Merry Out of Christmas?"

Staples made her first solo foray while at Epic Records with The Staple Singers releasing a lone single "Crying in the Chapel" to little fanfare in the late 1960s.^[2] The single was finally re-released on the 1994 Sony Music collection Lost Soul. Her first solo album would not come until a 1969 self-titled release for the Stax label. After another Stax release, Only for the Lonely, in 1970, she released a soundtrack album, A Piece of the Action, on Curtis Mayfield's Curtom label. A 1984 album (also self-titled) preceded two albums under the direction of rock star Prince; 1989's Time Waits for No One, followed by 1993's The Voice, which People magazine named one of the Top Ten Albums of 1993. Her recent 1996 release, Spirituals & Gospels: A Tribute to Mahalia Jackson was recorded with keyboardist Lucky Peterson. The recording honours Mahalia Jackson, a close family friend and a significant influence on Mavis Staples' life.

Staples made a major national return with the release of the album Have a Little Faith on Chicago's Alligator Records, produced by Jim Tullio, in 2004. The album featured spiritual music, some of it semi-acoustic.

In 2004, Staples contributed to a Verve release by legendary jazz/rock guitarist, John Scofield. The album entitled, That's What I Say, was a tribute to the great Ray Charles, and led to a live tour featuring Mavis, John Scofield, pianist Gary Versace, drummer Steve Hass, and bassist Rueben Rodriguez. A new album for Anti- Records entitled We'll Never Turn Back was released on April 24, 2007. The Ry Cooder-produced concept album focuses on Gospel songs of the civil rights movement and also included two new original songs by Cooder.^[3]

Her voice has been sampled by some of the biggest selling hip-hop artists, including Salt 'N' Pepa, Ice Cube and Ludacris. Mavis Staples has recorded with a wide variety of musicians, from her friend Bob Dylan (with whom she was nominated for a 2003 Grammy Award in the "Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals" category for their duet on "Gotta Change My Way of Thinking" from the album Gotta Serve Somebody: The Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan) to The Band, Ray Charles, Nona Hendryx, George Jones, Natalie Merchant, Ann Peebles, and Delbert McClinton. She has provided vocals on current albums by Los Lobos and Dr. John, and she appears on tribute albums to such artists as Johnny Paycheck, Stephen Foster and Bob Dylan.

In 2003, Staples performed in Memphis at the Orpheum Theater alongside a cadre of her fellow former Stax Records stars during "Soul Comes Home," a concert held in conjunction with the grand opening of the Stax Museum of American Soul Music at the original site of Stax Records, and appears on the CD and DVD that were recorded and filmed during the event. In 2004, she returned as guest artist for the Stax Music Academy's SNAP! Summer Music Camp and performed, again at the Orpheum and to rave reviews,^[who?] with 225 of the academy's students. In June 2007, she again returned to the venue to perform at the Stax 50th Anniversary Concert to Benefit the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, produced by Concord Records, who now owns and has revived the Stax Records label.

Staples was a judge for the 3rd and 7th annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists.^[4]

Staples singing at the 2008 Kitchener Blues Festival

In 2009, Mavis Staples, along with Patty Griffin and The Tri-City Singers released a version of the song “Waiting For My Child To Come Home” on the compilation album Oh Happy Day: An All-Star Music Celebration.^[5]

On October 30, 2010, Staples performed at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear alongside singer Jeff Tweedy.

Staples also performed at the 33rd Kennedy Center Honors, singing in a tribute to Paul McCartney, an honoree

On February 13, 2011, Mavis Staples won her first Grammy award in the category for Best Americana Album for You Are Not Alone. In her acceptance speech, a shocked and crying Staples said "This has been a long time coming."^[6]

On May 7, 2011, Mavis was awarded an honorary doctorate from Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. On May 6, 2012, Mavis performed "I'll Take You There" and was awarded an honorary doctorate from Columbia College in Chicago, Illinois.

Film and television[link]

During her career Staples has appeared in many films and television shows, including The Last Waltz, Graffiti Bridge, Wattstax, New York Undercover, Soul Train, Soul to Soul, The Psychiatrist, and The Cosby Show.

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

• Mavis Staples (Volt, 1969)
• Only for the Lonely (Stax, 1970)
• A Piece of the Action (Curtom, 1977)
• Oh What a Feeling (Warner, 1979)^[7]
• Mavis Staples (HDH, 1984)
• Don't Change Me Now (Volt/Ace, 1988)^[8]
• Time Waits for No One (Paisley Park, 1989)
• The Voice (Paisley Park, 1993)
• Spirituals & Gospel: Dedicated to Mahalia Jackson with Lucky Peterson (Verve, 1996)
• Have a Little Faith (Alligator, 2004)
• We'll Never Turn Back (Anti-, 2007) produced by Ry Cooder
• Live: Hope at the Hideout (Anti-, 2008)
• You Are Not Alone (Anti-, 2010) produced by Jeff Tweedy

Singles[link]

• "Crying in the Chapel" b/w "Nothing Lasts Forever" (Epic)
• "I Have Learned to Do Without You" b/w "Since I Fell For You"
• "Endlessly" b/w "Don't Change Me Now" (Volt)
• "A House Is Not a Home" (Volt)
• "A Piece of the Action" b/w "Til Blossoms Bloom" (Curtom)
• The Weight on the The Last Waltz (1976)
• "Oh What a Feeling" (Warner Bros., 1979)
• "Tonight I Feel Like Dancing" (Warner Bros., 1979)
• "Love Gone Bad" (1984)
• "Show Me How It Works" (from Wildcats) (Warner Bros., 1986)
• "20th Century Express" b/w "All The Discomforts Of Home" (Paisley Park, 1989)
• "Time Waits for No One" (Paisley Park, 1989)
• "Jaguar" (Paisley Park, 1989)
• "Christmas Vacation" (Paisley Park, 1989, Promo single)
• "Melody Cool" (Paisley Park, 1991)
• "The Voice" (Paisley Park, 1993)
• "Blood Is Thicker Than Time" (Paisley Park, 1993)

Other[link]

• "Christmas Vacation" (Theme song from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation) (1989)
• Johnny's Blues: A Tribute To Johnny Cash (Northern Blues, 2003)^[9]
• "Waiting For My Child To Come Home" with Patty Griffin and The Tri-City Singers, on Oh Happy Day: An All-Star Music Celebration (2009)

Footnotes[link]

References[link]

• Official website
• Mavis Staples Singles Chart History

External links[link]

• Mavis Staples at NPR Music
• Mavis Staples at Allmusic
• River Front Times: Mavis Staples
• Mavis Staples Interview
• Mavis Staples on NPR's "Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me!"'s "Not My Job" segment
• An Evening with Mavis Staples hosted by the Chicago Freedom School