Rick Derringer
It seems like Rick Derringer has been on the rock & roll scene forever -- actually, it's only been since 1965, which makes him one of the more enduring veterans of his generation. Derringer's work with his band the McCoys in his midteens, highlighted by the bubblegum anthem "Hang On Sloopy," gave him a claim to low-level rock & roll immortality, and his subsequent playing with Johnny (and later Edgar) Winter provided him with a degree of credibility that a lot of guitar players can only envy, especially after the release of the Edgar Winter live double album Roadwork.
Derringer began getting production experience with the McCoys, but they were never able to overcome their bubblegum rock image, and by the end of the 1960s, Derringer and his brother Randy were recruited by Johnny Winter into his band, with Derringer playing guitar and also producing. He emerged as a solo artist in the wake of his playing with Edgar Winter's White Trash. Derringer first became popular in his own right during the early/mid-'70s, beginning with a new version of his own "Rock & Roll, Hoochie Koo" (which Johnny Winter had covered for him a few years earlier) off Derringer's heavy metal-influenced debut album, All American Boy. Derringer soon had his own band, called Derringer, on the road -- although his guitarist and bassist, Danny Johnson and Kenny Aaronson, left in 1977 to form Axis -- and within a couple of years had established himself as a popular favorite. Derringer's recorded history was somewhat spotty, however, as his record sales never matched his favor with concert audiences -- a huge gap also existed between releases, which didn't bother him; even in the late '90s, Derringer played close to 200 shows a year. He spent most of the late '70s and 1980s, however, as a producer, working with artists as diverse as Bette Midler, Kiss, Meat Loaf, Cyndi Lauper, Barbra Streisand, and Weird Al Yankovic.
Derringer is known for his hard-rocking live shows, which don't necessarily translate well to recordings, or lend themselves to much originality. As he neared age 50 in the 1990s, however, he had mellowed, and this showed when he began recording again for Shrapnel Records in 1993 with the albums Back to the Blues and Electra Blues. Years of fair to average rock and adult contemporary albums followed, but in 2002 Derringer did an about-face and tried his hands at jazz with the adventurous Free Ride.
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Beat The Clock (Rerecorded)
Rock - Paru chez Music Manager le 19 juin 2015
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Collection: The Blues Bureau Years
Blues - Paru chez Shrapnel Records, Inc. le 6 juin 2006
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Rock And Roll, Hootchie Koo
Rock - Paru chez LIGHTYEAR (LTY) le 23 févr. 2015
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Live At The Ritz, NY
Rick Feat. Nugent, Ted Derringer, Rick Derringer
Rock - Paru chez ZYX Music le 9 févr. 2009
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Live At Cheney Hall (Live)
Blues - Paru chez Provogue le 15 nov. 2005
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Hang On Sloopy
Rock - Paru chez Dance Plant Records Inc le 12 mars 2012
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Greatest & Latest
Hard Rock - Paru chez Purple Pyramid Records le 11 avr. 2006
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All Shook Up
Rock - Paru chez Sound Ground Records le 19 févr. 2015
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Rock 'N' Roll Hoochie Koo
Rock - Paru chez Music Company OMP le 14 sept. 2014
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Rock & Roll Hoochie Koo / You Really Got Me (Live)
Rock - Paru chez Concert Archives le 4 juil. 2021
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Highlights of Rick Derringer
Pop - Paru chez Weishaupt Music & Entertainment le 14 mars 2017
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Party Tested
Rick Derringer, Carmine Appice
Rock - Paru chez Metalville le 7 déc. 2018
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Read the Word Live It Too (feat. Big D)
Rock - Paru chez Sound Ground Records le 2 avr. 2012
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Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo (Billboard Hot 100 - No 23)
Pop/Rock - Paru chez Music Manager le 23 oct. 2020
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Feels So Good (Live 1980) (Live)
Rock - Paru chez musique de soliel le 2 juin 2021
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Rock & Roll, Hoochie Koo (In Concert)
Rock - Paru chez Blue Lagoon le 23 nov. 2018
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Derringer: Live in America
Rock - Paru chez Blue Lagoon le 15 févr. 2019
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