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	Albert Collins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Albert Collins (October 1, 1932 – November 24, 1993) was a blues guitarist, singer and musician.
		Collins was signed and released his first LP album on Imperial Records, a sister label, in 1968.
		Collins remained in California for another five years and was popular on double-billed shows at the Fillmore and the Winterland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Albert_Collins (502 words)

	Albert Collins - Biography
		Collins was the embodiment of the Texas blues guitar style, using non-standard tuning, and slashing out blocked chords and sharp flurries of treble notes (played without a plectrum) to produce an "ice-cold" sound from his Fender Telecaster.
		Collins did not possess a great voice and for some, the tone of his Fender Telecaster (against the smoother Stratocaster) was too harsh.
		Collins endured his terminal cancer with great humility and refused to discuss the severity of his illness; his death at 61 was a cruel shock.
	bluesbot.bluescities.net /collinsbio.html (467 words)

	Albert Collins
		Albert Collins was born on the 1st of October, in 1932 in Houston, Texas.
		In 1993 when Albert Collins was at his peak of his career, he received the tragic diagnose that he was suffering from incurable liver cancer.
		Albert Collins was a moderate vocalist, but instead an incredible and extremely magnificent guitarist with a rel iable phat and juicy Fender Telecaster sound.
	hem.passagen.se /daveo/albert_english.htm (1137 words)

	Albert Collins - The Ice Man!
		Hendrix wasn’t the first player influenced by Collins, and certainly wouldn’t be the last (with the circle being closed in the 80’s by Stevie Ray Vaughan who drew almost as much from Collins as he did from Hendrix).
		It was clear from the Kangaroo 45 that Collins was a talent to be reckoned with.
		Collins’ band, featuring organist Walter McNeil who was a big part of the Collins sound (a fact no doubt attributable to the fact that Jimmy McGriff was one of Collins’ idols), and saxophonist Big Tiny (gotta love that name) is however in excellent form, as is Collins himself.
	funky16corners.tripod.com /6_collins_1.htm (469 words)

	ALBERT COLLINS
		Albert grew up on a farm in Texas with two farming parents and was exposed to music at a very early age.
		Albert once said that he was raised around sax players like Illin ois Jacquet, and that down in Texas you could choose jazz, R&B or blues ; he became a bluesman, becoming quite a showman (ala Guitar Slim) and using minor key tunings for his guitar.
		Albert Collins was a moderate vocalist, but instead an incredible and extremely magnificent guitarist with a reliable phat and juicy Fender Telecaster sound.
	www.rockabilly.nl /references/messages/albert_collins.htm (1241 words)

	Albert Collins
		Boy, Texas-born Albert Collins was some kind of blues guitar player, with a spine-tingling tone and unique soloing approach (he always used open tuning and a capo at the seventh fret).
		Collins wasn't a distinctive singer (most of his early singles were instrumentals) and his songs only exist to frame his solos.
		In 1985 Collins appeared on Koko Taylor's Queen Of The Blues, and Showdown with Johnny Copeland and Robert Cray.
	www.warr.org /collins.html (699 words)

	VH1.com : Albert Collins : Biography
		Albert Collins, "The Master of the Telecaster," "The Iceman," and "The Razor Blade" was robbed of his best years as a blues performer by a bout with liver cancer that
		Collins' big break came about in 1977, when he was signed to the Chicago-based Alligator Records, and he released his brilliant debut for the label in 1978, Ice Pickin'.
		Collins enjoyed some media celebrity in the last few years of his life, via concert appearances at Carnegie Hall, on Late Night with David Letterman, in the Touchstone film, Adventures in Babysitting, and in a classy Seagram's Wine Cooler commercial with Bruce Willis.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/collins_albert/bio.jhtml (979 words)

	Debbie Davies - Biography
		In 1988, she was drafted into Albert Collins and the Icebreakers and for the next three years was featured guitarist, performing night after night behind one of the most innovative blues legends of all time.
		Collins and Davies played together again in 1993 on Debbie's solo debut for Blind Pig Records, "Picture This." Later that same year Collins died of cancer at age 61.
		In 1988, she was drafted into Albert Collins and the Icebreakers and for the next three years was the featured guitarist, performing night after night behind one of the most innovative blues legends of all time --Albert Collins.
	www.debbiedavies.com /bio.html (2965 words)

	Albert Collins - The Ice Man!
		Many of Collins 45 sides were compiled in 1965 on the LP ‘The Cool Sound of Albert Collins’.
		In the next three years Collins recorded three albums for the label, often featuring a much funkier sound and bearing the clear influence of the Meters.
		Collins doesn’t get to solo until the song is almost over, and when he does he takes it easy, working a slightly ‘eastern’ (see Dale’s ‘Misirlou’) bent.
	funky16corners.tripod.com /6_collins_2.htm (892 words)

	Coco Montoya
		Albert took an immediate liking to Montoya, becoming his mentor and teaching his new protégé secrets of the Collins “icy hot” style of blues guitar.
		One Sunday, Albert Collins was booked to play a matinee there and the club owner gave Collins permission to use Montoya’s drums.
		His friend Albert Collins had been diagnosed with cancer, and during one visit, Collins told Coco to move on and do his own thing.
	www.rosebudus.com /montoya/CantLookBack.html (1536 words)

	Amazon.com: Collins Mix: The Best: Music: Albert Collins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		These early-90s re-recordings of eleven of Albert Collins' best songs is not a definitive collection, but it does provide a fine introduction to the late bluesman, although some will probaby prefer to own these songs in their original versions.
		Albert Collins was a true master of the blues whose piercing playing could send chills down the spine.
		This is not the best of Albert Collins, but a bunch of re-recordings of his best songs made at the end of his career.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000000W4Q?v=glance (1021 words)

	Albert King, Mississippi Blues musician
		Albert King also performed on Sunday, January 28, 1973, at Jackson, Mississippi’s white First Baptist Church, where several (Black) people were not allowed to attend the Sunday worship, including the wife of the white civil rights attorney Frank Parken (Swell and Dwight 329).
		Blues man Albert King was one of the premier electric guitar stylists of the post-World War II period.
		Albert King (Albert Nelson) was born in Indianola, Mississippi, and raised in Osceola, Arkansas.
	www.shs.starkville.k12.ms.us /mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/musicians/King.html (1576 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: COLLINS, ALBERT
		Albert Collins, blues musician, was born on October 1, 1932, in Leona, Texas, the son of Andy Thomas.
		Called "the telecaster" for his guitar and the "iceman" for his particular music, he became famous for walking into the audience, and on one occasion into the parking lot, with a 300-foot extension cord, followed by the audience.
		Collins used his fingers, not a pick, to play the guitar; unorthodox minor tunings and a capo on the fingerboard produced his unusual sounds.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/CC/fcowg.html (385 words)

	Alligator Records
		A cousin of the legendary Lightnin' Hopkins, Collins emerged with a blues sound and style all his own, featuring a combination of icy echo, shattering, ringing, sustained high notes, an ultra-percussive right-hand attack, and an unheard-of minor key guitar tuning (taught to him by his cousin Willow Young).
		Along with his band, The Icebreakers, Collins' live shows -- driven by his kinetic stage presence -- were legendary testaments to the power of the blues.
		With his untimely death in 1993, Albert Collins left behind a blues legacy that continues to amaze and delight blues fans all over the world.
	www.alligator.com /artists/bio.cfm?ArtistID=005 (383 words)

	LivinBlues- Albert Collins
		One obvious case is the redoubtable and extraordinary Albert Collins, dubbed 'The Master of the Telecaster', 'The Iceman', or 'The Razor Blade'.
		The elite within the Blues, Jazz, and Rock spheres always held Albert Collins in the highest regard, simply because The Master Of The Telecaster was the epitome of class, a gigantic talent, and a daring innovator.
		Albert Collins was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall Of Fame in 1986, and also won countless WC Handy Awards.
	www.livinblues.com /bluesrooms/albertcollins.asp (459 words)

	BIOGRAPHY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Albert Collins was born on October 3,1932 in Leona, Texas.
		Collins was featured chillin' and killin' on his Telecaster in the popular 80s movie "Adventures in Babysitting." From 1977 to 1987 were the best years of his career.
		Collins always called himself "no big thing" and he said that his music "ain't nothin' but the blues".
	www.cwrl.utexas.edu /~barndollar/courses/spring98/students/icebreakers/bio.html (264 words)

	Rambles: Albert Collins: In Concert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Master showman Albert "The Iceman" Collins puts on a dynamic, animated electric blues performance in the 1988 concert recorded on this newly released DVD.
		Collins' band is a real feature of the show and they stretch out on a lengthy intro before Collins takes the stage.
		It is amazing to watch Collins get crisp and precise notes and accentuating string bends effortlessly out of a guitar in his unique style of finger-picking with a capo clamped high on the guitar neck.
	www.rambles.net /collins_concertdvd03.html (226 words)

	Fender Players Club - Albert Collins
		Albert Collins earned a slew of nicknames for his sharp, cool guitar playing, and the Texas bluesman lived up to every one of them.
		Exposed to the blues at an early age, he started on organ and piano, and the organ feel would remain with him even when he switched to guitar.
		In 1987 he switched labels to Point Blank and recorded two more albums, but Albert Collins died of lung cancer in 1993, leaving a legacy of icy cool blues.
	www.fenderplayersclub.com /artists_lounge/hall_of_legends/collins.htm (562 words)

	Biography Albert Collins
		Albert Collins was born October 1, 1932, in Leona,TX.
		Collins recorded six more albums for the label, culminating in 1986’s Cold Snap that was nominated for a Grammy award.
		John Boncimino, Collin’s producer, said : “I was with him at his home in Las Vegas a few days before he passed and he was playing his Tele and the joy and spark was in his eyes”.
	www.bluessummit.com /eng/artists/collins/collinsbio.htm (637 words)

	Waterloo Records - Albert Collins : Frostbite
		Another in Albert Collins's series of fine 1970s and '80s releases on Alligator Records, FROSTBITE gives Collins fans more of what they've come to expect--raw, rootsy blues and unparalleled guitar playing.
		Collins's approach to the blues guitar is distinctive, and he alternates between high, singing leads and echoey, low-end motifs, manipulating space and drawing his phrases out with unusual rhythmic variation.
		Collins surrounds himself with an outstanding backing band of drums, bass, keys, and horns (here featuring three saxophones, a trumpet, and a trombone).
	www.buymusichere.net /rel/v2_viewupc.php?storenr=13&upc=01455147192 (234 words)

	ANDY SUMMERS
		Collins’ extended strolls through his adoring audiences (usually staged to the relentless rhythm of his signature instrumental “Frosty”) frequently took him out the door of the club he was headlining and into the surrounding neighborhood, thanks to a hundred feet of guitar cord or more, the crowd joyously following him out.
		Albert’s next stop in 1971 was Tumbleweed Records, a fledgling Denver, Colo.-based firm that issued the Bill Szymczyk-produced LP There’s Gotta Be a Change, featuring Collins’ only RandB-charting single, “Get Your Business Straight.” It would be seven years before Collins found his way back into a studio as a leader.
		Albert reaches back to his early Alligator triumphs for Little Johnny Taylor’s “If You Love Me Like You Say” and Lowell Fulson’s “Honey Hush,” while a marvelously laidback “Lights Are On But Nobody’s Home” hailed from Cold Snap and the mellow “Same Old Thing” would grace his upcoming Pointblank album Collins Mix.
	www.fuel2000.com /albertcollinsbio.html (1544 words)

	Amazon.com: Frozen Alive!: Music: Albert Collins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Collins dignifies the proceedings by stating that it am t nothin' but the blues." Johnny B. Gayden's funky bass broadens the definition.
		During "Mind to Travel", Albert would get out the 200 foot guitar cord and wander both rooms of the Union, often stopping to sit at your table, talk, have a drink, and all the while wailing in his unique open-tuned and capoed solo style.
		Dr. Collins proves that he is the master of the Telecaster, and shreds all night with a sound that is completly out-of-site.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000009XR?v=glance (992 words)

	Blues Bytes Flashback
		Albert Collins and Johnny Copeland were longtime associates, going back to the days when Collins took a teenaged Copeland under his wing and taught him a few licks on his guitar.
		By the mid '80s, Collins was one of the most visible bluesmen this side of B. King, having recorded five scorching albums for Alligator (including THE Albert Collins album, Ice Pickin’) and appeared at Live Aid.
		Collins would later move to the Virgin/Pointblank label and record several other fine albums, but none as great as this one, before dying in November of 1993 after a battle with lung cancer.
	www.bluenight.com /BluesBytes/fk1103.html (541 words)

	Tower Records - Ice Pickin' - Albert Collins
		Of all the slabs of blues-guitar brilliance in Albert Collins's discography, ICE PICKIN', his landmark 1978 debut for Alligator Records, is arguably the best.
		In the '70s, Collins had moved beyond his earlier R&B-themed groove instrumentals, and was writing more traditional blues tunes (with verses and choruses) that still showcased his playing.
		Collins is joined by a seamlessly tight backing band here, including a keyboardist, tenor and baritone saxes, and a crack rhythm section.
	www.towerrecords.com /product.aspx?pfid=1021354 (323 words)

	eBay - albert collins, CDs, Records items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Soul/funk 45 * Albert Collins * Soulroad * Mint-
		ALBERT COLLINS Live In Japan UK vinyl LP
		Albert Collins - 8x10 B&W PR Photo Live
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	Albert Collins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Born Oct. 1, 1932, Leona, Texas, died Nov. 24, 1993, Las Vegas, Nev. Albert Collins was a passionate instrumentalist and singer who became known as the "Master of the Telecaster" for the distinctively pure "icy" tone he produced from his Fender Telecaster electric guitar.
		Collins learned piano and guitar as a teenager in Houston, Texas, and played in local clubs as a band musician and pickup guitarist for other performers.
		Collins' other albums include Ice Pickin' (1978), Frostbite (1980), and Molten Ice (1992).
	www.cascadeblues.org /Legends/AlbertCollins/AlbertCollins.htm (190 words)

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