Brushes With Music: With Strokes in 1960s British Rock

British-born artist, poet and singer Opal Louis Nations writes of his meetings with singers and musicians plus music friends on the 1960s English rock scene. Encounters include "brushes" with the likes of Alexis Korner, the Who, Ringo Starr and Paul Jones, among others. He vividly describes his early musical influences as a teenager growing up in England in the 1950s and his struggles to make it as a recording artist on the popular music scene of the Sixties.

Author: Opal Louis Nations
Publisher: Scat Trax
Published: 12/03/2014
Pages: 64
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.22lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.13d
ISBN: 9780692343692

About the Author
Opal Louis Nations has worked in the music business for many years as producer of over a hundred CD collections for various record companies and has been a collector of all types of Post-War black music since he was a teenager. During the mid-1960s he worked as lead vocalist in London clubs with his own group, the Frays, and later the Alexis Korner Quartet. He helped popularize American soul-based R&B and gospel music in Great Britain. He currently spends his time researching and preserving music on indie labels, writing articles for various music magazines and producing CD collections for a number of reissue record labels both in the U.S. and in England. His biography of the gospel group The Sensational Nightingales was recently published by Black Scat Books.

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