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perspective: "Just around when I started there were all these guys in blues bands and of course they were impatient and they wanted to make some more money so they became rock bands. I played the blues then and I play the blues now. That's what I love. ... It's a living thing, it's living music. By living and breathing it goes on and what that means is that instead of being the same kind of music somebody else wrote years ago, it lives and evolves. Blues is serious stuff, it's a heavy kind of music in your soul. You show up with the blues I play, you lighten up. That's what it's all about. It's like medicine."
435:, both in terms of musical style and band format. Walsh and Cotton later became personal friends. Donnie Walsh described these early influences as follows: "Jimmy Reed. I heard him on my girlfriend’s birthday party. Some guys brought a Jimmy Reed album over and that was it, for me. ...I’d put him on the record player, and when I went to sleep at night, it would still be playing when I’d get up in the morning. Then I’d play him all day, and it was unreal. Then, of course, I spread out to
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Notwithstanding their strained relationship, Donnie Walsh assessed his brother's ability as follows: "He was a fabulous singer; he could sing the blues better than anybody I've ever heard. He had the timing, the phrasing, a fabulous voice… he was just great." Hock Walsh died on
December 31, 1999, at
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Fonfara died on 8 January 2021 in a Toronto hospital, following a two-year battle with cancer. Shortly after, drummer Mike Fitzpatrick retired. Later that summer, Downchild embarked on a 50th anniversary tour, long delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, joined by returning drummer Jim Casson
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Downchild since its 1969 founding. The band has never lost its focus on blues music. While certain band members have left to pursue what was perceived to be a more lucrative rock music career, Donnie Walsh has a different
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Despite being closely identified with the band's initial sound and also being the co-writer, with brother Donnie Walsh, of "Shot Gun Blues", later recorded by the Blues
Brothers, Hock Walsh would leave, rejoin and be replaced as lead singer in the band on several occasions. He was first fired from
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In 1982, the band suffered a major setback with the untimely death of keyboard player Jane Vasey, who succumbed to leukemia at the age of thirty-two. Donnie Walsh, who was living with Vasey at the time, took a period of time off to reflect on his future and that of the band. The band came back in
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Tony Flaim, the initial replacement for Hock Walsh in
Downchild and featured on six of the band's albums, also died of a heart attack, on March 10, 2000, less than three months after Hock Walsh. He was 52. Flaim's near nine-year association with Downchild covered most of the 1975 to 1982 period,
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song, "Mr. Downchild". The initial band membership was Donnie "Mr. Downchild" Walsh, who remains the sole constant band member, with younger brother Rick "Hock" Walsh on vocals, accompanied by Dave
Woodward, Cash Wall, John Tanti, and Jim Milne. They were the house band at the fabled Grossman's
606:, David Dicaire wrote: "(Donnie) Walsh has been called the 'father of Canadian blues' and with good reason. He is a blues pioneer on the Canadian scene. It was Walsh who paid the highest dues so that later Canadian blues acts, such as the
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Canadian blues band, described by one reviewer as "the premier blues band in Canada". The band is still commonly known as the Downchild Blues Band, though the actual band name was shortened to "Downchild" in the early 1980s. The
622:, The Sidemen and The Highliners could also enjoy their success. The Canadian blues scene, which has blossomed nicely in the last few years, was relatively barren in the late 1960s when The Downchild Blues Band first started out.'"
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including a period when Hock Walsh rejoined the band in 1977, plus 1986 to 1988. He was succeeded by a returning Hock Walsh, who was fired by his brother for a final time in 1990. During the 1982-1986 period, Flaim was replaced by
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555:(sax). Sax player Pat Carey was the first to join the current Downchild lineup, in 1985, a year after arriving in Toronto and commencing his Toronto musical career playing with both Hock Walsh and Tony Flaim. Bass player
511:. Hock rejoined the band in 1977 and 1985. He was fired by his brother Donnie for a final time in 1990 and replaced by Chuck Jackson. Chuck Jackson has remained the lead singer of Downchild since that time.
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Downchild, he was the lead singer of the legendary Cameo Blues Band, the well-received Tony Flaim and The Dukes, and the award-winning blues and rhythm and blues band,
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Downchild for a second time in 1995, after first playing with the band during the 1979-1983 period. They were later joined by drummer Mike Fitzpatrick, who first recorded with the band on the
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the age of 51, of an apparent heart attack. Performing on his own and with his own bands since 1990, he had been scheduled to perform a New Year's Eve concert with blues singer
382:. The band's international fame is partially due to three of its songs, the originals "I've Got Everything I Need (Almost)" and "Shot Gun Blues", and its adaptation of "
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Downchild Blues Band was formed in Toronto in 1969 and continues to perform today. It was co-founded by two brothers, Donnie "Mr. Downchild" Walsh and
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band was heavily influenced by Downchild Blues Band.
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Gary Kendall - bassist of the Downchild Blues Band.
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1561:. "We Remember"; Canadianblues.ca; John Taylor,
718:2007 Maple Blues Award, Male Vocalist of The Year
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659:2005 Maple Blues Award, Entertainers of The Year
656:2005 Maple Blues Award, Electric Act of The Year
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728:1999 Maple Blues Award, Horn Player of The Year
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2001:Juno Award for Blues Album of the Year winners
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1369:. The Canadian Pop Encyclopedia; Jam.canoe.ca.
1202:, Jam! Music, February 4, 2000; Jam.canoe.ca.
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846:1974 "Tell Your Mother" (Special) (#54 Can.)
519:. His last recordings were three tracks on
1045:A Matter Of Time - The Downchild Collection
1038:A Case Of The Blues - The Best Of Downchild
815:2007 Maple Blues Award, Drummer of The Year
812:2005 Maple Blues Award, Drummer of The Year
783:2013 Maple Blues Award, Bassist of The Year
780:2012 Maple Blues Award, Bassist of The Year
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1467:. "We Remember"; Canadianblues.ca. See
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1098:Gene Taylor
1087:Straight Up
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620:Sue Foley
553:Pat Carey
543:1990-2022
449:B.B. King
406:jump-band
248:Jim Milne
244:Cash Wall
205:Pat Carey
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828:Singles
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505:Dancing
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