The City Preachers

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1968 - The City Preachers in Berlin
The City Preachers' first album
The second album by the City Preachers
v. l. To the right: Jean-Jacques Kravetz, Dagmar Krause, Karl-Heinz Schott, Udo Lindenberg and Inga Rumpf

The City Preachers are the first folk-rock group in Germany.

history

The band was founded in 1965 in Hamburg by the London- born bank employee John O'Brien-Docker . The music was a mixture of folklore, later called folk , from all over the world: Flamenco from Spain , blues from the USA , Irish folk , bouzouki sounds from Greece , Yiddish and Balkan songs, but also early German-language protest songs and Low German songs.

The City Preachers appeared in changing line-ups until the 1970s. The number of band members varied between five and ten. The band's records sold quite well.

Well-known musicians emerged from the band. In addition to the gypsy swing guitarist John O'Brien-Docker and the singer and television producer Kalle Freynik, these include the singers Inga Rumpf , Sibylle Kynast , Dagmar Krause , the singer, art piper and multi-instrumentalist Eckart Kahlhofer , the keyboardist Jean-Jacques Kravetz and the Drummer and later singer Udo Lindenberg . Altogether more than 20 soloists worked in this band in changing line-ups according to the so-called “modular principle”, that is, “Everyone is a soloist” and “Everyone plays with everyone”. Singers as diverse as Inga Rumpf, Sibylle Kynast and Dagmar Krause sang alongside and with each other in the group for several years.

Inga Rumpf, Dagmar Krause, Karl-Heinz Schott, Udo Lindenberg and Jean-Jacques Kravetz moved more and more away from folk music in 1969. Udo Lindenberg resigned and played drums with Peter Herbolzheimer and Klaus Doldinger before starting a solo career in 1973. Dagmar Krause went to England ( Slapp Happy ). Inga Rumpf, Karl-Heinz Schott, the new drummer Carsten Bohn and Jean-Jacques Kravetz chose the band name Frumpy .

In 1970 Dagmar Krause, Sibylle Kynast, Elga, Jürgen Stielow, Eckart Kahlhofer and Michael Laukeninks met for a City Preachers production in the studio to record the LP Back to the City , which was released in 1971 on the Hörzu / Metronome label.

Michael Laukeninks, manager and producer of City Preachers, worked as a lecturer at Schacht-Musikverlagen, in 1971 as a promoter at WEA Records and in 1973 as an editor at NDR . He also worked as a photographer until his death on July 22, 2018.

Discography

Albums

  • 1965: Folklore ( Teldec )
  • 1966: The City Preachers ( Decca )
  • 1966: why? ( Philips )
  • 1967: Cool Water - International Folk Hits (Decca)
  • 1968: The pumpkin, the dream dancers and the transport problem (Decca)
  • 1971: Back to the City ( Hörzu / Metronome )
  • 1982: Inga Rumpf and the City Preachers (Teldec)
  • 1998: Folklore (CD, Teldec)
  • 1998: Inga Rumpf: In the Beginning (CD, Teldec)

In the 60s and 70s further LPs appeared, partly as solo projects or as special compilations for book clubs and for labels abroad. Some singles have also been released.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Images of the LP cover. Accessed April 23, 2013.
  2. ^ A b Members of City Preachers at citypreachers.de , accessed on April 23, 2013
  3. Inga Rumpf - About me ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 23, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ingarumpf.de
  4. Back to the City.Retrieved April 23, 2013.
  5. Bonnie & Clyde