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Author
Mel's experience of playing music and as a social worker and community
development worker in London has enriched his interest in writing
about London communities and the social history
of popular music.
Articles published:
Musician
As a drummer Mel has spent over forty years gigging.
See
Blues @ Greece website article.
Working Men's clubs, pubs and sixties & seventies
blues club scene.
Played at
Eel Pie Island,
Studio 51,
The Marquee,
The Flamingo,
Les Enfants Terribles, 100 Club.
In the sixties and seventies with Shakey Vick Blues Band, Dynaflow Blues and The
Nighthawks we
accompanied and
supported black American blues legends
Son House,
Howlin Wolf,
Eddie
Guitar Burns,
Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup
(BBC TV appearances on
Late Night Line
Up & Disco 2),
Lightnin’ Slim,
Juke Boy Bonner,
Champion Jack Dupree
and Curtis
Jones. During seventies & eighties with Strike-A-Light theatre rock,
folk rock band,
Traitors Gait playing
festivals,
Mess Of Blues,
The Flying
Chaucers, Jazz
Circus with Billy Jenkins, Shakey Vick Blues Band (since 1967), Jimmy
Beckley Trio.
 Shakey
Vick's Big City Blues Band 1967
Juke Boy Bonner recording from BBC Sound Of The Sixties.
Recordings include
Things Ain't Right-
Juke Boy Bonner ,
Book Of Changes
Ian A Anderson,
I Wish You Would
- Brunning Hall Sunflower
Blues Band, Blues & Gospel, Key To The Highway -
Jo Ann Kelly, Poor Young
Willie -
Traitors Gait,
The Complete Mess - Mess of
Blues, About Time - The Flying
Chaucers,
Greek Street -
Waydown,
What Jazz Can Do For Your Life -
Jazz Circus with Billy Jenkins & Jazzman John Clarke, Highlife In The Sun
- Jimmy Beckley Trio.
Contact
Mel Wright can be contacted by
email at
Mel Wright
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