Tommy Flanders is an American musician who was lead vocalist in the Blues Project for several periods in the band's history from 1966 to 1972.
Career
The Blues Project
In late 1965, Flanders was asked to join the "Danny Kalb Quartet", led by blues guitarist
Danny Kalb (1942-2022). Shortly after Flanders' arrival, their name was changed to the Blues Project. He appears on two Blues Project albums, their debut
Live at the Cafe Au Go Go (
Verve Folkways, 1966) and a reunion album
eponymously titled
Blues Project (
Capitol Records, 1972), as well as on various compilations and greatest hits collections.
Solo
After his first departure from the Blues Project in 1966 (Flanders left before the debut album was issued), he signed with
Verve Forecast, for whom he issued two commercially unsuccessful singles and one largely ignored album,
The Moonstone (1969).
In a review at
AllMusic, rock journalist Richie Unterberger panned the album, saying, "Despite some top-flight backup musicians in
Bruce Langhorne,
Dick Rosmini, and
Jerry Scheff, it was a fairly forgettable record, and certainly a low-energy one, the mellowness threatening to dissolve into sleepiness. It's one of those albums where nothing's especially wrong, but neither is anything especially right."
His 1967 Verve Forecast single, "Friday Night City" c/w "Bad Reputation," was produced by former Bob Dylan producer Tom Wilson. Both sides featured Frank Zappa (then of the Mothers of Invention) on guitar,
Later life
He later went into artist management; his clients included
Carolyne Mas.
Discography
With The Blues Project
Live albums
Albums
Solo
Albums
|
| The Moonstone | Verve Forecast | 1969 | |
Singles
|
| "Friday Night City" | | Verve Forecast | 1967 | |
| "First Time, Last Time" | "Between Purple And Blue" | Verve Forecast | 1970 | |
| "The Moonstone" | "Between Purple and Blue" | Verve Forecast | | |
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