![]() Howard Johnson’s Got His Ho-Jo Workin’ġ3. Dutchess County Jail Terry Adams & Steve Fergusonĩ. That hasn’t happened yet - at least not for me.”ĭisc One: Everybody Say Yeah! (2005–2016)ġ9. If it starts becoming a job or a means to an end, you lose touch with that original inspiration. It’s got to feel like I did when I was eight or 10 and first listened ot music. That’s the most important thing, I think, keeping the excitement in your soul. We didn’t want to sign up with some pre-existing category we just played what felt right at the time. We liked all music and 1966 was a good time to be feeling that way. Friends in the neighborhood would stop by. ![]() “NRBQ started as a band that played at home, only making tapes on a Webcor tape recorder. “Sometimes I tell other musicians that whatever they’re doing, they should never lose what got them excited about music in the first place,” explains Adams, whose battle with throat cancer put NRBQ on hiatus from 2004-2011. NRBQ may not see a next 50 years, but it’s certainly not stopping any time soon. The current edition is now out on the road touring with Los Straitjackets and has been recording a new album for release in 2017. I’m glad.”Īdams has seen the Louisville-formed NRBQ through all 50 years, including 17 members and 21 albums - right up to 2014’s Brass Tracks - and collaborations with the likes of Carl Perkins, and Skeeter Davis as well as Albano. It’s funny that it’s called ‘It’s Never Too Late’ - and here it is, now. The record company sort of took control over what would be on the records, so a lot of songs didn’t come out - and that’s one of them. We had a lot of stuff we might’ve recorded 28 songs. “We loved working with Eddie Kramer he had become good friends with us and really got a good sound. “I remember how much fun it was to record in New York City,” Adams recalls. “It’s Not Too Late,” for instance, was a song he wrote in 1971 and was recorded with producer Eddie Kramer at Electric Lady Studios in New York during sessions for the 1972 album Scraps” and its follow-up, Workshop. The unreleased material came from all over, according to Adams, included reel-to-reel tapes of lost acetates. ![]() The spread is wide, from “hits” such as “Me and the Boys,” “Ridin’ in My Car,” “Christmas Wish” and “Captain Lou” with professional wrestler Captain Lou Albano to live tracks and side projects such as the Seven of Us and Adams’ duo work with guitarist Steve Ferguson.īonnie Raitt, Steve Earle & More Tribute NRBQ 11 on Omnivore and features 106 songs - several of them unreleased, including “It’s Not Too Late,” premiered exclusively below - across five carefully curated discs. High Noon: A 50-Year Retrospective comes out Nov. NRBQ will be commemorating its lengthy career with an appropriately sizable box set. I know it’s a lot compared to other bands, but when you believe in what you are doing and also have fun doing it, it’s easy.” “The time has gone by fast, like a long weekend. I hadn’t thought of it with a real number,” Adams tells Billboard. “A friend of mine reminded me that 50 years was coming up. NRBQ’s 50th anniversary has come as something of a surprise to keyboardist and sole remaining founding member Terry Adams.
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