Robben Ford has received five Grammy Award nominations and was named one of the '100 Greatest Guitarists of the 20th Century' by Musician magazine.

In the 1990s, he released the albums Robben Ford and the Blue Line, Mystic Mile, Handful of Blues, Tiger Walk and Supernatural. Lewis in the cast of The Sunday Night Band for the second and final season of the late-night NBC television program Sunday Night in 1989. He joined Philippe Saisse, Marcus Miller and J.T. Ford released his second solo album Talk to Your Daughter in 1988. In 1982, Ford was one of several guitarists who appeared on the KISS album Creatures of the Night, playing lead guitar on the songs 'Rock And Roll Hell' and 'I Still Love You'.įord worked briefly with Miles Davis in 1986 and can be heard on Davis' Montreux box set. In 2006, a tribute album to Steely Dan – The Royal Dan – was released, with Ford covering 'Peg' in his own style. In 1977, Ford was one of half a dozen or so session players asked to play the guitar solo for the Steely Dan song ' Peg.' In the end, the group went with the version by Jay Graydon instead. Express in 1976, Robben Ford recorded his first solo album, The Inside Story with a band that later became the Yellowjackets.

Miles Davis & Robben Ford in Montreux in 1986Īfter leaving the L.A. In 1974, the band supported George Harrison on his American tour and played on the Joni Mitchell albums The Hissing of Summer Lawns and Miles of Aisles. In the 1970s, Ford joined the jazz fusion band, L.A. He recorded two albums with Jimmy Witherspoon called Live and Spoonful. A fourth brother died in the Viet Nam conflict.Īt age 18, Ford's band was hired to play with Charlie Musselwhite, and recorded two albums The Charles Ford Band and Discovering the Blues. Robben and two of his brothers (Patrick and Mark) created the Charles Ford Blues Band in honor of and named after their father. He began playing the saxophone at age 10 and the guitar at age 14. Robben Ford was born in Woodlake, California, United States, and raised in Ukiah, California.

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