Role Guitarist Instruments Guitar, vocals Record label Various | Labels Various Siblings Grady Gaines Name Roy Gaines | |
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Albums I Got the T-Bone Walker Blues Similar People Grady Gaines, T‑Bone Walker, Kirk Fletcher, Johnny Dyer, Paul Oscher | ||
Occupation(s) Guitarist, songwriter | ||
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Roy James Gaines (born August 12, 1934 or 1937) is an American Texas blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. He wrote recorded the song "A Hell of a Night", which was first issued on his 1982 album Gainelining.
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He is the younger brother of the blues musician Grady Gaines.
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Biography
Gaines was born in Waskom, Texas, and relocated with his family to Houston when he was six years old. Originally a piano devotee, Gaines moved to playing the guitar in his adolescence. In his teens he was acquainted with another budding guitarist, Johnny Copeland. By the age of 14 he had performed onstage backing his hero, T-Bone Walker, and played in Houston nightclubs. He later moved to Los Angeles, California. In 1955, Gaines played as a backing musician on recordings by Bobby Bland, Junior Parker and Big Mama Thornton. He later backed Roy Milton and then Chuck Willis, and he worked again with Walker.
He released two low-key albums in 1956 and a couple more in the 1960s for small record companies. In 1966, Gaines became part of Ray Charles's backing band. He was also a backing musician in sessions with the Everly Brothers, the Supremes, Bobby Darin, Stevie Wonder, and Gladys Knight.
He worked primarily as a sideman, but he released a solo album, Gainelining, in 1982. He also had a small part in the 1985 film The Color Purple. Another album, New Frontier Lover, was released in 2000. It was followed by Tuxedo Blues, featuring a big band billed as Roy Gaines & His Orchestra, released in 2009. The album includes the song "Miss Celie's Blues (Sister)," which Gaines had performed in The Color Purple. Also included is a cover of Michael Jackson's "Rock with You."
Gaines co-wrote the song "No Use Crying", which was recorded by George Jones and Ray Charles.
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