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The British singer Jess Roden (b.1947) enjoyed a career which ran from the 1960s into the 1980s, fronting well-known bands, performing extensively, winning the respect of his peers, but never gaining major commercial success. He began his musical career with local bands in his hometown of Kidderminster, but became more widely known in the mid-1960s as the lead singer of the Alan Bown Set, a popular live soul band whose performances won them a following comparable to thier contemporaries Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band and Jimmy James and the Vagabonds.In 1967 the band changed to a more "psychedelic" style and renamed itself The Alan Bown! (the exclamation mark was soon dropped)..

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  • The British singer Jess Roden (b.1947) enjoyed a career which ran from the 1960s into the 1980s, fronting well-known bands, performing extensively, winning the respect of his peers, but never gaining major commercial success. He began his musical career with local bands in his hometown of Kidderminster, but became more widely known in the mid-1960s as the lead singer of the Alan Bown Set, a popular live soul band whose performances won them a following comparable to thier contemporaries Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band and Jimmy James and the Vagabonds.In 1967 the band changed to a more "psychedelic" style and renamed itself The Alan Bown! (the exclamation mark was soon dropped)..
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  • The British singer Jess Roden (b.1947) enjoyed a career which ran from the 1960s into the 1980s, fronting well-known bands, performing extensively, winning the respect of his peers, but never gaining major commercial success. He began his musical career with local bands in his hometown of Kidderminster, but became more widely known in the mid-1960s as the lead singer of the Alan Bown Set, a popular live soul band whose performances won them a following comparable to thier contemporaries Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band and Jimmy James and the Vagabonds.In 1967 the band changed to a more "psychedelic" style and renamed itself The Alan Bown! (the exclamation mark was soon dropped).. Roden left them in 1969 and formed the band Bronco, who recorded two albums for Island Records, then in 1973 joined The Butts Band, which also featured ex-Doors members Robby Krieger and John Densmore but only managed one album before splitting up. He then formed The Jess Roden Band and made a series of LPs in a soul-influenced rock style for Island Records during the 1970s, but after 1980 his recording career declined and he spent much of the ensuing years working as a graphic designer. In 2011 a revival of interest in Jess Roden was signalled by the appearance of a website devoted to his work. In November 2012, music publishers Hidden Masters in collaboration with Jess, produced a 6CD-set of rdigitized and remastered material direct from original analogue tapes. Called 'The Jess Roden Anthology" it has over 50% of studio and live material not heard before. The limited edition is being released via PledgeMusic.
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