He was a founding musician (keyboards, MIDI and drum programmer) and songwriter with both The Main Attraction (RCA) and The Right Choice (Motown). Both of these groups featured Archie Love on vocals (he played keyboards on his "Exposed" CD as well.
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He also co-wrote a song, "Rainy Nights" which was recorded by
Chico DeBarge on his "Kiss Serious" album released on the Motown
label.
He has performed keyboards on recordings by Jonny Lang, Isaac Hayes, Denise Lasalle, The Barkays, Eric Gales, and several artists on the Memphis based ECKO label including Barbara Karr, Ollie Nightingale, Chuck Roberson, Charles Wilson and Carl Sims. On Carl's first solo album "House Of Love" (Jewel/Paula), he performed all the instruments (other than some guitar solos) and arranged all the music for every one of the album's songs including "House Of Love", "I'm Trapped", "Clever Girl" and "Seventeen Days Of Loving".
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He has played keyboards live with The Main Attraction, The Right Choice,
The Barkays, Jonny Lang, Michael McDonald, B. B. King, Boz Scaggs, Dennis
DeYoung, Miles Jaye, Millie Jackson, William Bell, Mavis Stples, Billy
Preston, Eric Gales, Kevin Paige, Bobby Kimball (TOTO) and am currently
the keyboardist for JIMI JAMISON (Survivor) in a new band called
MEMPHIS BLOOD which also features JACK HOLDER (former studio guitarist
for Travis Tritt and Tracy Chapman), BILL MARSHALL (former drummer for
Hank Williams, Jr. and Jimmy Buffett), Steve Potts (current drummer for
Wynonna Judd and Cat Power) and Dave Smith (current Bassist for Cat Power).
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Check out the MEMPHIS BLOOD MySpace page:
http://www.myspace.com/memphisblood
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