Cornelius snooky flowers biography
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‘Snooky’ Flowers, Janis Joplin Band Member, Dies
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by Best Classic Bands Staff“Snooky” Flowers performing with Janis Joplin and the Kozmic Blues Band on The Dick Cavett Show in 1969
“Snooky” Flowers, a saxophonist who most notably organized the Kozmic Blues Band for Janis Joplin in the late 1960s, and performed with her at the 1969 Woodstock Festival, died March 9, 2020, according to various internet reports. The place, cause of death, and his age are not yet known.
After Joplin left Big Brother and the Holding Company, for which she recorded the 1968 landmark Cheap Thrills album, she enlisted Flowers for her new backup group. They were joined bygd keyboardist Stephen Ryder, former Big Brother guitarist Sam Andrew and bass guitarist Brad Campbell for a 1969 tour.
With many other musicians, they recorded an skiva for Columbia that summer, I Got Dem Ol’ Kozmic Blues igen Mama!. The albu
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Cornelius Snooky Flowers
October 4, 1940 – March 9, 2020
A 2010 article by Candice Medina Skinner in the Leesville Daily Leader [Louisiana] opens with: During a time when Rock and Roll reigned, Snooky Flowers, a saxophonist from Leesville, gave some of the most famous musicians in history some of his jazz flavor. He put together bands for Janis Joplin, worked with Mike Bloomfield, rehearsed with Jimi Hendrix, and brushed elbows with A-list musicians of the 1960s.
Cornelius Snooky Flowers
Chicago > Leesville
Flowers was born in Chicago, but soon moved to Leesville, Louisiana. It was there that he found music and like many young musicians, began putting together bands.
120 miles away is Port Arthur, Texas where Flowers played regularly at the Jive at Five dance show on KPAC-TV which had “colored days” — meaning that blacks were allowed on the show.
Snooky had an army hitch from 1964 to 1966. He was discharged in Oakland, CA and sere
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Melomane Blog
Welcome to my Music Diary – today for the 19th January!
Janis Joplin (19th January 1943 – 4th October 1970)
Happy birthday to Janis Lyn Joplin, who was born on the 19th January 1943 in Port Arthur, Texas!
Janis started singing in the local choir and after graduation from High School in 1960, she attended the University of Texas in Austin. The campus newspaper published an article about the unique girl, who walked barefoot most of the time, with the headline „She Dares to Be Different” and when she was twenty, Joplin moved to San Francisco. There she met the future Jefferson Airplane guitarist Jorma Kaukonen. The duo recorded some Blues standards like “Hesitation Blues” and “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out“. During this time, Janis Joplin started living a Rock’n’Roll lifestyle. In 1965 she cleaned her mind and returned to her hometown in Texas and started performing as a singer. One year later, she was aske