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Bobby Sowell (born July 8, 1947, Memphis, Tennessee) is an American musician, pianist and composer. He spent much of his early years playing rockabilly piano in the late 1950s, playing organ in rock and roll bands in the 1960s and playing piano in numerous country music bands in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. A Mid-South Fair Winner in 1966, Sowell was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame in 2002. In 1994, he went out as a solo artist. As a pianist and composer, Sowell has recorded eight albums, crossing many genres of music, from jazz, pop, rock and roll, honky tonk and blues to country music, gospel and easy listening. The following Memphis musicians were all part of bands with Sowell during the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s or 1990s: Barry Sowell (Amazing Rhythm Aces), Bobby Whitlock (Eric Clapton/George Harrison), Bill Humble (Elvis Presley/Tom Jones), Danny Fitzgerald (Johnny Rodriguez), David Miller (Bill Black/U2), Eddie Slusser (Jerry Lee Lewis/Hank Williams Jr), Fred Prouty (Charlie Rich), Glenn Childress (Lonestar), Jack Holder (Black Oak Arkansas), Jim Gammell (Eddie Bond), Robert Johnson (The Rolling Stones/ZZ Top), Ronnie Scaife (Neil Diamond), and Roy Yeager (Crackerjacks/Lobo/Atlanta Rhythm Section/Ronnie Milsap). ==Biography== His birth name is Robert G. Lee Sowell. He was named after a famous Southern Baptist preacher, Dr Robert G. Lee. When Sowell got drafted during the Vietnam War, he dropped the G and became Robert Lee Sowell. In music, his stage name has always been Bobby or Bobby Lee. Growing up in Memphis, Sowell had a lot of diversified musical influences. Early influences included Hank Williams, Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Muddy Waters. But what really got his attention were the piano players of that day, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, Ray Charles, Roger Williams and Floyd Cramer. Sowell met Floyd Cramer when he was 16 years old and that experience really had a lasting effect on his music. On the family side, his Father played harmonica and piano by ear and his Mother sang, played the guitar and sung on the radio in Chattanooga, Tennessee in the 1940s. They used to have regular family sing-a-longs, inviting area musicians to join in. Those early rock and roll years, along with being subjected to the sounds of rockabilly, honkytonk, blues, gospel and his Mother's country music had an influence on Sowell's music creativity and can be heard in his music style throughout his career. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bobby Sowell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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