Clover (American band)

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Clover
General information
Genre (s) Country rock
founding 1967
resolution 1977
Founding members
Alex Call
John McFee
John Ciambotti
Mitch Howie
former members
Alex Call
Vocals, harmonica
Huey Lewis
Keyboards
 Sean Hopper
Drums
 Micky Shine

Clover (English for "Klee") was an American country rock band founded in 1967 in San Francisco . Her members included Huey Lewis and Sean Hopper , who founded the group Huey Lewis & the News after Clover broke up .

background

John Ciambotti, a native of Los Angeles musician, had moved with his family to San Francisco, where he joined as bassist of the band The Outfit joined. This group regularly took part in jam sessions with the band The Tiny Hearing Aid Company, to which Ciambotti later switched. After the change, the group renamed itself Clover . In addition to Ciambotti, it consisted of the musicians Alex Call ( vocals and guitar ), John McFee (guitar, pedal steel guitar , vocals), and Mitch Howie (drums).

The first appearance under the new name took place on July 4, 1967. In the following years the band performed in various locations in the Bay Area , in the summer of 1969 they received a recording contract with Fantasy Records . There the group released their self-titled debut album and the single Shotgun (B-side Wade the Water ) in 1970 .

Their second album, Forty Niner, was released in 1971. After the release, the band left their label. In the following years there were various line-up changes, for example Mitch Howie left the band and was replaced by Micky Shine, Huey Lewis (vocals, harmonica ) joined the band, and Sean Hopper joined the group from 1972 as a keyboardist. The band moved to the UK with Call, McFee, Ciambotti, Hopper, Lewis and Shine , got a new recording deal with Vertigo Records in 1976 , and recorded the albums Love on the Wire and Unavailable in 1977 , both by Robert John " Mutt "Long were produced . In addition, the group participated, but without Lewis and call as backing band of Elvis Costello whose debut album My Aim is True on.

She was also involved in the production of a commercial for jeans manufacturer Levi's , which Adrian Lyne shot and in which the band plays the song Route 66 . Lyne won a bronze lion at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival for the Route 66 spot .

The band did a few touring as the opening act for Graham Parker and Thin Lizzy before Clover broke up and their members returned to the United States.

After the end

Huey Lewis and Sean Hopper founded the band Huey Lewis & the News in 1979 with former members of the Sound Hole band ( Mario Cipollina , Bill Gibson and Johnny Colla ), which celebrated great international successes, especially in the 1980s. Alex Call became a solo artist and later worked as a songwriter with Huey Lewis. McFee became a member of the Doobie Brothers , of which he is still a member, and Ciambotti became a session musician, working with Lucinda Williams , Carlene Carter and John Prine , among others , before entering the chiropractic profession .

Discography

  • Clover (1970)
  • Forty Niner (1971)
  • Love on the Wire (1977)
  • Unavailable (1977)

literature

  • Hugh MacLean and Vernon Joynson: An American Rock History Part One 1963 -1985 California The Golden State

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Clover discography at discogs.com , accessed on May 24, 2016
  2. ^ Advertising Menswear: Masculinity and Fashion in the British Media since 1945 by Paul Joplin, page 233