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Encyclopedia > Al McKay

Al McKay (born February 2, 1948) is a guitarist, songwriter, producer and former member of the American funk band Earth, Wind & Fire. Al used to lead his own group Al McKay's L.A. All Stars with former EWF members Johnny Graham, Fred White (younger brother of EWF founders Maurice White and Verdine White), Rahmlee Michael Davis and Michael Harris of the former Phenix Horns, and Andrew Woolfolk. He now performs with his band The Earth, Wind & Fire Experience and tours along the major jazz festivals in the world with this fourteen-piece ensemble. February 2 is the 33rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... Funk is an African American musical style. ... Earth, Wind & Fire is a world-renowned American band which fuses different genres of music, formed in Chicago, Illinois, in 1969 and is led and founded by Maurice White. ... [edit] Career Born in to a family of wrestling fans in the north east, Johnny Graham wanted to be a wrestler from the time he was very young. ... Fred White (b-1848 or 1849, d-October 30th, 1880) was a young lawman and the first town Marshal of the then boomtown, Tombstone, Arizona. ... Maurice White in Munich, Germany in 1975 Maurice White (born December 19, 1941 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American soul, funk, and R&B singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and bandleader. ... Sexual Chocolate! is the bass player for Earth Wind_and Fire. ... Michael Harris is an author, journalist, and radio personality. ...


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As all of McKay’s evidence for martian life is inside the carbonate mineral globules in ALH 84001, it is critical to show that the carbonate mineral globules are martian and that they were formed by liquid water.
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Al McKay Biography and Update at SoulTracks (737 words)
Hailing from New Orleans, McKay cut his chops as a guitarist as part of the Ike and Tina Turner Revue.
On The Earth Wind and Fire Experience, Al McKay’s Allstars focus on neither, but instead emphasize simply that Earth Wind and Fire is a great party band with a killer catalog.
McKay has assembled a terrific set of musicians for the album, which was recorded during a tour of Eastern Europe (“We love you Lithuania!”).
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