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1. Mothloop Tench, 1982
2. Health And Knowledge And Wealth And Power Oil & Gold, 1985
3. Gunning For The Buddha Big Night Music, 1986
4. The Bastard Sons of Enoch, Sacred City, 1992
5. Suck Jam Science, 1984
6. Nemesis (Extended Mix) Nemesis 12" (Oil & Gold), 1985
7. (Open Up Your) Filthy Heart (To Me) Sacred City, 1992
8. The Strongest Wind That Blows Cormorant, 2005
9. Running On The Rocks Big Night Music, 1986
10. Glory Bumps Glory Bumps, 2007

RIYL: The The's insect-collecting half-brother with the bondage porn collection. Or, if you wanted XTC to be Tones On Tail fronted by Buffalo Bill from Manhunter opening for Right Said Fred fronted by Hugo Weaving.

Though he's best known as a member of the short-lived but groundbreaking group Derek and the Dominoes with Eric Clapton, Whitlock has had a very impressive musical career. Raised in Arkansas and Memphis, by the time he was a teenager he was playing on many of the sessions at the legendary Stax Studios and was in fact the first white artist signed to Stax Records. With a soulful voice soaked in gospel, R&B, and blues and accomplished keyboard skills, it was only a matter of time before the limelight found him.

Upon seeing him perform in a Memphis Club, he was asked by Delaney & Bonnie to join their band. Whitlock began a friendship with Eric Clapton when Delaney & Bonnie and Friends toured with him and would soon be part of Clapton's Derek and the Dominoes project. Co-writing many of the songs and playing and singing on most (that's him doing the lead vocal on his own "Thorn Tree in the Garden"), Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs was almost as much a Whitlock album as it was a Clapton album. With the same band, he played on George Harrison's All Things Must Pass and was also an uncredited musician on the Rolling Stones' influential Exile on Main Street a few years later.

The 1970s also saw him release four expressive solo albums. The first one, self titled, was released in 1972 and is the best of the bunch. Raw Velvet, while a little more uneven than the first, featured some of Duanne Allman's most heartbreaking and breathtaking slide playing (uncredited due to contractual legalities) on the track "Dearest I Wonder," recorded shortly before he died. After his 1976 album Rock Your Sox Off, Whitlock layed low for most of the '80s and '90s, living on a farm in Mississippi and doing some session work (though not even much of that). In 1999, he finally returned with the aptly titled It's About Time.

This thread has lost its mongerdom and needs some cpr.

Sorry to be such a disappointment.

....The 1970s also saw him release four expressive solo albums. The first one, self titled, was released in 1972 and is the best of the bunch. Raw Velvet, while a little more uneven than the first, featured some of Duanne Allman's most heartbreaking and breathtaking slide playing (uncredited due to contractual legalities) on the track "Dearest I Wonder," recorded shortly before he died.

In honor of that statement, I am motivated, although probably won't get around to it, to go home and make a Conway Twitty tenner.

Conga I think.


And the look on Twitty's face... GOLD.

I don't know what I'm saying
As my trembling fingers touch forbidden places bum bum bum

AND

And you're wondering if tomorrow
I'll still love you like I'm loving you tonight uh huh huh
You have no way of knowing but tonight will only make me love you more

Oh hell, you all knew it was coming!!!

Well I'd just better get Jethro Tull over with, then.

Damn straight!
I'll dig on that one.

It won't have what you might think on it. But it'll be good.

YOU CANNOT ESCAPE!!!