Marc Benno - Sugar Blues (2000)

Memorable songs that lend credibiity to the blues. Marc is a unique Texas guitarist and great songwriter. Both of these talents are unvealed on this CD. He played lead for the DOORS and now you can hear why. Be one of the first to know about his style of blues and turn your friends on to the man who backed up Eric Clapton, Lightnin Hopkins, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Leon Russell, and many more! He is joined by powerhouse father and son Bramhalls. Little Doyle knocks out the lead on Little Miss Rock n Roll and the duo backs Benno on harmony vocals. Not to mention the incomparable drumming by the late great Doyle Senior.
Marc Benno came up playing guitar in various bands in Austin, TX, in the late '60s, then moved to Los Angeles, where he hooked up with Leon Russell and formed the duo Asylum Choir, which released one album in 1968 and recorded a second before splitting up. (The second Asylum Choir album was released in the wake of Leon Russell's commercial success in 1971 and hit #70 in the charts.) He made four albums of mainstream pop/rock in the 1970s, the most successful of which was the third, Ambush, in 1972. ~William Ruhlman