Mike Duke. They said ‘Yeah, that sounds funny’.”Although Duke left Marin for a period to tour around the country with Delbert McClinton he says he’s lived in Nicasio and Novato for a total of about 15 years.I asked him if there was anything about Marin he really misses since first moving here in the early ‘80s.He says, “It seemed like the music scene was a little bit more open and there were more places to go. “Huey was about to have a baby at the time,” explains Duke of the impetus for the song. When it comes to popular music, Marin County has its share of household names — Huey Lewis, Sammy Hagar, Santana, The Grateful Dead, and so many more.But if you’ve ever studied the liner notes on a Huey Lewis album, know your Seventies Dixie Rock history, or enjoyed the house band at Rancho Nicasio, the name Originally from the South, Duke played with the Seventies Dixie Rock band Duke didn’t think much of the compliment but gave the exec a demo just in case. Not only did he open the show for Preston but he sat in with the band and their special guest, Clarence Clemmons, who had lost his saxophone strap that night and had fashioned a new one out of a coat hanger. There’s no longer a club in San Rafael to go see bands play music. The single reached #12 on the pop charts.Duke was just getting warmed up. This is the ultimate break-up song and my marriage happened to be in the midst of ending; I had to meet this guy! Michael Duke debuted on the album Dixie Rockadding keyboards and vocals and stayed with the band through their tenure in the Southern Rock era. The earliest recorded track on this project, it was produced in 1977 by noted Southern rock producer Paul Hornsby (The Marshall Tucker Band, Charlie Daniels Band) at his Muscadine Studios in Macon, Georgia.Gary Michael Duke was born October 18, 1948, in Mobile, Alabama. He is not only a prominent member of the Rancho All-Stars at the roadhouse; Mike manages their General Store as well! NICASIO, CA – Singer/keyboardist/songwriter Mike Duke has flourished as an in-demand musician and performer for over 45 years, yet October 11 will the see the release of his debut CD, the aptly titled The story of this album of all-original material, is deeply intertwined between Mike Duke’s life as a professional musician and former Huey Lewis & the News manager, Bob Brown, the driving force behind this album’s release. Join Facebook to connect with Mike Duke and others you may know. Sweetwater is collapsing. Zur Navigation springen Zur Suche springen. After returning from a road trip, there was another cassette on my desk that included ‘Let Her Go and Start Over,’ also eventually recorded by Huey Lewis & the News. That original ‘demo tape’ featured here, has a vocal performance that blew me away. It’s harder to book acts because professional acts can’t work for nothing and they’ve got to go where the gigs pay. When it comes to popular music, Marin County has its share of household names — Huey Lewis, Sammy Hagar, Santana, The Grateful Dead, and so many more. For a time in the ’80s, Duke fronted his own group, Mike and the Maximums (“because everyone in it was either fat or tall,” he explains). It was Brown who recognized Duke’s talents as a singer and songwriter in the early 1980s and set Mike on a path that led up to this album.“Mike Duke entered my life in 1981 by way of a cassette recording sent to my office in Mill Valley, California, by a music publisher in Los Angeles,” relates Bob Brown in the liner notes. Mike Duke is on Facebook. During this time he also opened an East Coast tour on solo piano for Huey Lewis & the News.After spending several years as the lead singer/keyboardist of The Solid Senders, the house band at Slim’s nightclub in San Francisco, he joined Delbert McClinton’s band as a featured member for most of the ‘90s, and since Delbert was based in Nashville, Mike relocated there.When Bob Brown purchased an old country roadhouse, Rancho Nicasio, in 1998, he asked Mike if he was ready to return to the West Coast, and Mike once again became a fixture in Northern California. The song “Torn & Scarred,” written in 1969 and newly-recorded for this collection, is a perfect example of Mike’s gospel roots.In 1974, Mike hooked up with fellow Mobile brethren Wet Willie and made his first appearance on record with them for their Capricorn Records breakout album, In 1983, Bob Brown convinced Mike to move to the West Coast. Mike was a member of several bands in high school, and sang and wrote for a black church in the area. That song reached #4 on The Billboard Hot 100 and the album reached number 1 on The Billboard 200. “There were four songs by different writers, one being ‘Hope You Love Me Like You Say You Do,” written and sung by Mike. He learned to play music by ear on a piano his mother had in the house. The drummer on this track, who also appears throughout many of the other songs on the album, was Bill Stewart, who interestingly enough was the original drummer in Wet Willie before becoming a Capricorn Records mainstay in groups such as Cowboy and the Gregg Allman band.“That’s What So Good About the South,” Mike’s tribute to all-things-Southern, was originally pitched by Duke to the great Dr. John; and one listen to the tune confirms it would have been a perfect song for him. “I thought, ‘Oh God, Billy Preston, ‘The Fifth Beatle’, Piano Player Extraordinaire! Despite a 40-year-long career as a respected singer, songwriter, and keyboard player, Alabama native Mike Duke had never released an album of his own. That track was co-produced by former Allman Brothers Band guitarist Jack Pearson, who also plays guitar on it. So the venues that you could play music at are collapsing or gone. They were using a banjo but they sounded like Rock ‘n Roll. “Huey and I wrote some lyrics in the back ping pong room by the Galaxian machine.”Adjusting to his new life in Marin, Duke joined the local music scene and played for fun at The Sweetwater. “It wasn’t specifically about that…but it didn’t hurt!”Originally, just before The News catapulted to fame and fortune, Lewis encouraged Duke to move out from Texas to Marin so the two could write songs together.
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