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Papa Don McMinn is a Memphis Music
legend.
He was instrumental in the rebirth of
the Home of the Blues: Beale Street in Memphis
Tennessee. During the mid-1980s, Papa Don’s band had
the "house gig" at Rum Boogie on the corner
of Beale and Highway 61. Everyone who was anyone was
there, and when the big names came to town to record
or perform, there was only one place to go - to see
Papa Don McMinn and his Rum Boogie band.
Twenty five years later, Papa Don is
still creating and perpetuating his special brand of
Southern Music, a concoction of Delta and Boogie
Blues.
Papa Don's current band, Nightrain,
is anchored by his sons, Doug on drums and Rome on
bass.
Don has performed all across the
planet, and he’s worked and recorded with the likes
of Memphis Slim, John Mayall, Bobby "Blue" Bland,
and Albert King, among others. Some of the notables
who’ve made cameo appearances with Papa Don's band
are Joe Walsh, Gregg Allman, Rufus Thomas, Jon
Bonjovi, Billy F Gibbons, and Eddie Floyd.
Go to tracks include: LAST NIGHT
BABY AND THE NIGHT BEFORE, BLUES AIN’T A
COLOR, and the beautiful, instrumental ballad
THINGS ARE CHANGING |
