- Pat Hare
Auburn "Pat" Hare (
20 December ,1930 -26 September ,1980 ) was an AmericanMemphis blues androckabilly guitar ist andsinger .He was born in
Cherry Valley, Arkansas . He recorded atSun Studios in Memphis,Tennessee , serving as a sideman forHowlin' Wolf ,James Cotton ,Muddy Waters ,Bobby Bland and other artists. He was one of the first guitarists to purposely use the effects of distortion in his playing. Reported to have been an unassuming man in private, he however had serious, and ultimately fatal, drinking problems.He recorded a version of the early '40s Doctor Clayton song "I'm Gonna Murder My Baby" on
May 14 ,1954 , which has since been released on the 1990Rhino Records compilation "Blue Flames: A Sun Blues Collection" and other collections. According to the album liner notes, "I'm Gonna Murder My Baby" "is doubly morbid because he did just that in 1962 and spent the last 16 years of his life in prison." He also murdered a policeman sent to investigate.External links
* http://www.rockabilly.nl/references/messages/pat_hare.htm
* http://qconline.com/getalife/trueblue/tbapr99.html
* http://music.aol.com/artist/pat-hare/84274/biography
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