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The Muscle SHoals Rhythm Section anchored by drummer Roger Hawkins and bassist Tommy Cogbill, the Jamerson of the south. Later on, Hawkins and bassts David Hood.
Aretha Franklin didn't become the Queen until Jerry Wexler took her to Alabama to work with the The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section....Hawkins, Cogbill, Jimmy Johnson, Roger Hawkins, Spooner Oldham and later Barry Beckett and David Hood.
These two groups remain the most prolific and least known in rock and roll history, overshadowed by Stax and Motown.
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After having their first hits with Percy Sledge and WIlson Pickett, the Muscle Shoals guys backed Aretha on all her albums from 67-70. Never Loved a Man, Respect, Save Me, Natural WOman, CHain of Fools, Baby I Love You, Since You Been Gone, Think, The House that Jack Built, Say a LIttle Prayer...all of them.
With WIlson Pickett: Funky Broadway, Mustang Sally and Land of a Thousand Dances, Hey Jude, Im In Love etc...
Cogbill wasn't really a member of the Muscle Shoals group, but played bass for the Aretha and Pickett sessions.
With drummer Gene Chrisman, he anchored the Memphis Sound group, playing on Elvis' 68, 69 Memphis sessions: Kentucky Rain, Suspicous Minds, In the Ghetto. They also played on the Boxtops hits and Dusty SPringfield's Dusty in Memphis, including Son of a Preacher Man. Cogbill really is an unsung great on bass, probably more verstatile than Duck Dunn. Both these groups of musicians did stuff with Bobby Womack.
And if the Muscle SHoals guys had never done all the above, they would be still be legendary for this alone, with Hood and Hawkins keeping the groove.

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Paul Simonon and Topper came from reggae music; one great reason the Clash had their unique sound once you added Mick Jones' slashing rock guitar.

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stupidguy2
The Muscle SHoals Rhythm Section anchored by drummer Roger Hawkins and bassist Tommy Cogbill, the Jamerson of the south. Later on, Hawkins and bassts David Hood.
Aretha Franklin didn't become the Queen until Jerry Wexler took her to Alabama to work with the The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section....Hawkins, Cogbill, Jimmy Johnson, Roger Hawkins, Spooner Oldham and later Barry Beckett and David Hood.
These two groups remain the most prolific and least known in rock and roll history, overshadowed by Stax and Motown.
Sample list:
After having their first hits with Percy Sledge and WIlson Pickett, the Muscle Shoals guys backed Aretha on all her albums from 67-70. Never Loved a Man, Respect, Save Me, Natural WOman, CHain of Fools, Baby I Love You, Since You Been Gone, Think, The House that Jack Built, Say a LIttle Prayer...all of them.
With WIlson Pickett: Funky Broadway, Mustang Sally and Land of a Thousand Dances, Hey Jude, Im In Love etc...
Cogbill wasn't really a member of the Muscle Shoals group, but played bass for the Aretha and Pickett sessions.
With drummer Gene Chrisman, he anchored the Memphis Sound group, playing on Elvis' 68, 69 Memphis sessions: Kentucky Rain, Suspicous Minds, In the Ghetto. They also played on the Boxtops hits and Dusty SPringfield's Dusty in Memphis, including Son of a Preacher Man. Cogbill really is an unsung great on bass, probably more verstatile than Duck Dunn. Both these groups of musicians did stuff with Bobby Womack.
And if the Muscle SHoals guys had never done all the above, they would be still be legendary for this alone, with Hood and Hawkins keeping the groove.

yes yes yes

Tommy Cogbill--bass on 'Memphis Soul Stew' by King Curtis

oh man great music from those days.

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Paul Simonon and Topper came from reggae music; one great reason the Clash had their unique sound once you added Mick Jones' slashing rock guitar.

Paul Simonon could hardly play an instrument when he joined the Clash, Headon came from a jazz/prog rock band.

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true...one of the greats. I wonder if Bass Player magazine ever did a profile on him?

I can't verify that he played on Memphis Soul Stew..possibly Jerry Jemmott played that cool bassline...
I happened to meet Steve Cropper once, and I asked him about that song...he told me Tommy Cogbill played bass on it

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duke richardson
true...one of the greats. I wonder if Bass Player magazine ever did a profile on him?

I can't verify that he played on Memphis Soul Stew..possibly Jerry Jemmott played that cool bassline...
I happened to meet Steve Cropper once, and I asked him about that song...he told me Tommy Cogbill played bass on it

Definitely Cogbill. They recorded that album right after recording Aretha in Muscle Shoals - Wexler used the King Curtis album as an excuse to get the Muscle Shoals guys up to New York's Atalantic studios because Rick Hall didn't want them recording with Wexler. They cut Memphis Soul Stew, the album, in something like one day, and then went on to record Respect, Dr. Feelgood etc....
Cogbill was the main man on those records. According to Jimmy Johnson, Aretha loved Cogbill - and you can hear that on the records: he was the anchor on most of those songs, giving them the main groove, feel. Jemmot didn't come along until 69, some theorize that Aretha was being pressured to incorporate more black musicians on her sessions. But while Jemmot took over bass duties on songs like Think, Cogbill just switched to guitar and you can hear him very distinctively on Think and others. He had also been a jazz player in his early days and switched to bass after Wexler needed a bassist for the Percy Sledge session.
He died in 80, and remains an obscure name, except on bass forums.

These are two of my favorite Cogbill grooves:

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duke richardson
true...one of the greats. I wonder if Bass Player magazine ever did a profile on him?

I can't verify that he played on Memphis Soul Stew..possibly Jerry Jemmott played that cool bassline...
I happened to meet Steve Cropper once, and I asked him about that song...he told me Tommy Cogbill played bass on it

Definitely Cogbill. They recorded that album right after recording Aretha in Muscle Shoals - Wexler used the King Curtis album as an excuse to get the Muscle Shoals guys up to New York's Atalantic studios because Rick Hall didn't want them recording with Wexler. They cut Memphis Soul Stew, the album, in something like one day, and then went on to record Respect, Dr. Feelgood etc....
Cogbill was the main man on those records. According to Jimmy Johnson, Aretha loved Cogbill - and you can hear that on the records: he was the anchor on most of those songs, giving them the main groove, feel. Jemmot didn't come along until 69, some theorize that Aretha was being pressured to incorporate more black musicians on her sessions. But while Jemmot took over bass duties on songs like Think, Cogbill just switched to guitar and you can hear him very distinctively on Think and others. He had also been a jazz player in his early days and switched to bass after Wexler needed a bassist for the Percy Sledge session.
He died in 80, and remains an obscure name, except on bass forums.

These are two of my favorite Cogbill grooves:

many thanks! glad to know, and to bring some light to Tommy Cogbill.

you a fellow bass player?