Roy Montrell
Roy Montrell ( born February 27, 1928 in New Orleans, † May 16, 1979 in Amsterdam) was an influential American R & B guitarist. He worked mainly as a studio musician and accompanied R & B and rock 'n' roll greats on their tours.
Life
Montrell was discharged from the army in 1951 and began to play the tape in Roy Milton. He moved to New Orleans, to found a family and was formed with bassist and drummer Victor Lawrence gate Leonards a trio, which was short-lived, as Montrell of Lloyd Price was involved for a tour. Back in New Orleans, he worked primarily as a studio musician, the studio band for Specialty Records, Ace Records. Among other things, he was heard in 1956 on the Little Richard recordings of Heeby - Jeebies, Can not Believe You Wanna Leave, Jenny Jenny and Good Golly, Miss Molly. On weekends he performed in a band with Nat Perrilliat, Curtis Mitchell and Edward Blackwell.
Between 1960 and 1962 he stood first in Allen Toussaint's house band at Minit Records and was then hired by Harold Battiste at AFO Records for an enormous number of recordings. In 1962, he took over from Walter Nelson the guitar in the live band Fats Dominos, which he directed and musically. Montrells girlfriend Ulrike Sprenger recalls in dominoes biography, a certain dependence of the singer it had become his bandleader who has been involved in all organizational questions and was able to formally obtain freely by his boss cash payments. Of which he financed including his heroin addiction, which was fatal to him on 16 May 1979 a tour of the Netherlands.
The savvy guitarist whose good timing and the Drive was valued by his fellow players, took them under his own name only two singles. ( Everytime I Hear ) That Mellow Saxophone, a collaboration with John Marascalco developed into an R & B standard, among other things, the Stray Cats who covered. Suspected Bruce Eder of Allmusic, Montrell have with hundreds, if not thousands of photographs contributed.