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    Blues Image was an American rock band. They had a hit in 1970 with "Ride Captain Ride", which reached No. 4 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Canadian...
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  • Blues Image is the debut album of the rock band Blues Image. The album was released in 1969 and peaked at #112 on the Billboard charts. All tracks composed...
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  • Open is Blues Image's second album and most acclaimed album, which featured the No. 4 hit single, "Ride Captain Ride". Robert Christgau, writing in The...
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  • "Ride Captain Ride" is a song recorded by the American rock band Blues Image. It was co-written by the band's singer-guitarist Mike Pinera and keyboardist...
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    Mike Pinera (category Blues Image members)
    producer who started professionally in the late 1960s with the group Blues Image, which had a number 4 hit in 1970 with their song "Ride Captain Ride"...
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    subgenres. Blues subgenres include country blues, Delta blues and Piedmont blues, as well as urban blues styles such as Chicago blues and West Coast blues. World...
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  • G.I. Blues is a 1960 American musical comedy film directed by Norman Taurog and starring Elvis Presley and Juliet Prowse. The movie – Presley’s fifth...
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    Kent Henry (category Blues Image members)
    songwriter best known for his contributions to Steppenwolf and Blues Image. Henry joined Blues Image during the sessions for Open after Mike Pinera agreed to...
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  • Led Zeppelin, Fantasy, The Jeff Beck Group, The Doors, Canned Heat, Blues Image and Steppenwolf. Led Zeppelin played 2 shows each night--$3/show. Tiny...
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  • Australian pop/rock band The Open (band), English indie rock band Open (Blues Image album), 1969 Open (Gerd Dudek, Buschi Niebergall, and Edward Vesala album)...
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    Joe Lala (category Blues Image members)
    an American musician and actor. In 1966, he co-founded the rock band Blues Image. Lala was born in Ybor City, Tampa, Florida, into a family of Italian-American...
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  • Skip Konte (category Blues Image members)
    Konte (born October 2, 1947) is an American keyboardist. He joined The Blues Image in 1967, and stayed with them until they split in 1971. Along with bandmate...
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    Television (Lackawanna Blues) 2006 Black Reel Award Best Actress in a Made for TV Movie or Miniseries (Lackawanna Blues) 2010 NAACP Image Award Best Supporting...
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  • period drama series, Underground (2016–2017), for which she received NAACP Image Award nomination. She later starred as attorney Tegan Price in the ABC legal...
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  • A Jazzman's Blues is a 2022 American drama film written, produced and directed by Tyler Perry. The film stars Joshua Boone, Amirah Vann, Solea Pfeiffer...
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  • 2024. Tamarkin, Jeff (November 22, 2024). "Mike Pinera, Guitarist for Blues Image & Iron Butterfly, Dies at 76". Best Classic Bands. Retrieved November...
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  • Blues. Kim Kelly of Pitchfork gave the album 7.5/10, praising the band's performance and comparing Celestial Blues favorably to Created in the Image of...
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  • which fell just short of the Top 40. Lead guitarist Kent Henry from Blues Image replaced Larry Byrom prior to recording this album. The album was Steppenwolf's...
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  • Keyboardist for Sugarloaf and Frankie Valli Mike Pinera: Lead singer of Blues Image and guitarist for Iron Butterfly and Alice Cooper Mark Farner: guitarist...
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  • songwriter (Blues Image, Iron Butterfly, Ramatam) 21 – Willy Quiroga, 84, Argentine rock bassist (Vox Dei) 22 Toni Price, 63, American country blues singer...
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    Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within the African-American community in the 1940s...
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  • self-titled debut album in 1972. Pinera was known for his work with Blues Image ("Ride Captain Ride") and Iron Butterfly. Mitchell had been a member...
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  • Blossom Toes The Blossoms Blue Cheer Blue Mink Blues Creation The Blues Image Blues Incorporated Blues Magoos Blues Project The Bobbettes Bob B. Soxx & the Blue...
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    original material along with songs from Janis Ian, Randy Newman, and Blues Image. The highest-charting song was the Beatles’ “Got to Get You into My Life"...
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    and the band then became an eight-piece with the inclusion of former Blues Image member Skip Konte as a second keyboardist in late 1973. In late 1974...
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  • (Atco) "Ride Captain Ride" (1970) (Atco) Open (1970) (Atco) Red White & Blues Image (1970) (Atco) Roots and Branches (1972) (Anthem Records) Jellyroll (1971)...
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  • 1946 – November 29, 2002) was a singer in the 1960s rock music group Blues Image as well as a contemporary Christian musician active in the 1970s. In...
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  • and recorded with several artists such as Mike Pinera, Iron Butterfly, Blues Image, Luis Cardenas and Renegade. Babylon also arranged many Elton John introductions...
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    vocalists/ multi-instrumentalists Marty Grebb and Terry Danko, founding Blues Image percussionist Joe Lala and former Beach Boys drummer Ricky Fataar. Along...
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    line-up by two new musicians: guitarist/vocalist Mike Pinera (whose Blues Image had opened for Iron Butterfly's Vida tour) and guitarist Larry Reinhardt...
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