DELANEY & BONNIE & FRIENDS
“We’ve got to get ourselves together Take some time and know each other We’ve got to get ourselves together.” Bands together enough to draw raves from both Jimi Hendrix and Mick Jagger are rare. Those together enough to do that and get invited to The Big Sur Folk Festival, the nation’s most prestigious folk gathering, are almost non-existent.
DELANEY & BONNIE & FRIENDS
“We’ve got to get ourselves together Take some time and know each other We’ve got to get ourselves together.”
Bands together enough to draw raves from both Jimi Hendrix and Mick Jagger are rare. Those together enough to do that and get invited to The Big Sur Folk Festival, the nation’s most prestigious folk gathering, are almost non-existent. There is really only one, Delaney & Bonnie & Friends. The Original; Accept No Substitute.
Their sound has been called “white gospel”. It is that in the sense that it has strong overtones of black gospel singing, primarily in the manner in which voices and harmonies are used but, even more importantly, because Rock and Roll is a neo-religious movement amoung youth the world over. The only way so many different kinds of kids can be drawn to rock is for it to draw from diverse and multiple sources. Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, drawing from almost every common source of rock, produce their own unique electrically eclectic kind of gospel for a new generation. It’s what Bonnie calls “Rhythm and Country Gospel Blues”.