He wanted to hire us all but I had already committed to working with Leon Russell and joined my friends a year later in Jamaica to work on and join Eric Clapton’s band. Clapton was looking for a new band and Carl told him about us. This included the well-lauded bass player Carl Radle who worked with Eric Clapton in Derek and the Dominoes. We had notables like JJ Cale, The Gap Band, Leon Russell himself and many others coming to see us play and sitting in with us. So I joined my friends and our band was the big fish in the little pond. We all toured with Bob but when the band ended, I was invited to move to Tulsa. Bob decided to fire the rhythm section and kept the guitarist (Bill Mueller) and me in the band, hiring these hotshot musicians from Tulsa, Oklahoma which was at that time one of the music centers of the country famous for the location of Shelter Records, owned and run by one of my idols Leon Russell, of Wrecking Crew fame and being an artist and great songwriter in his own right. Then Bob Seger’s manager heard about us and had us audition for Bob’s band, so we were all hired, and that is what I’d consider my first big break, aside from opening for David Bowie! We toured the US with that band. I played in a lot of local bands in Detroit, one called Julia we ended up opening for David Bowie in 1972. I put an ad on a local radio station in the Detroit area called WABX, “girl singer looking for blues band” and that was the beginning. So I quit college and made a conscious decision one day while I was playing guitar and singing in a park in the suburbs of Detroit I remember looking up at the sky and saying out loud, “this is what I’m going to do with the rest of my life” and I’ve never stopped. Even though I went to college for one semester in the Detroit area my major was art, my minor was music, I decided music was much more rewarding and fulfilling for me. I’d sit in my room and play my guitar and sing for an hour and always come out feeling much better. Music was always a comfort to me especially going through my troubled teen years. My first instrument was violin, then I went on to accordion, ukulele, guitar, harmonica and piano. I’d developed a love for music as a child and started singing at around age five and playing an instrument age seven. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started? Today we’d like to introduce you to Marcella Detroit.Īlright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers.
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