Omar Kent Dykes
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Omar Kent Dykes | |
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 Omar and the Howlers playing at the Saxon in Austin, Texas | |
| Born | 1950 (age 73–74) McComb, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Blues guitarist and singer |
Omar Kent Dykes (born Kent Dykes, 1950) is an American blues guitarist and singer, living in Austin, Texas.
He began leading bands as an adolescent in McComb, Mississippi.[1]
In 1973 he formed the band, Omar & the Howlers. The band plays electric Texas blues, rock and roll and blues-rock. Dykes has also had a successful career as a solo artist, and regularly toured European countries.
Among his solo albums are Blues Bag from 1991, and Muddy Springs Road from 1994.[2]
An Austin Music Hall of Fame inductee, he was afflicted in 2017 with a skin illness that wasted away the flesh of his arms, and he lost the ability to perform in public.[1] In 2020 he published a memoir, OMAR DYKES: The Life and Times of a Poor and Almost Famous Bluesman.[3]
Discography
[edit]- Big Leg Beat (1980, Stomp)
- I Told You So (1984, Clyde Frog)
- Hard Times in the Land of Plenty (1987, Columbia)
- Wall of Pride (1988, Columbia)
- Monkey Land (1990, Antone's)
- Blues Bag (1991, Provogue) (solo album)
- Live at Paradiso (1992, Provogue)
- Courts of Lulu (1993, Provogue)
- Muddy Springs Road (1995, Provogue)
- World Wide Open (1996, Provogue)
- Southern Style (1997, Provogue)
- Swing Land (1999, Provogue)
- Live at the Opera House: Austin, Texas - August 30, 1987 (2000, Provogue)
- The Screamin' Cat (2000, Provogue)
- Big Delta (2002, Provogue)
- Boogie Man (2004, Ruf)
- Bamboozled: Live in Germany (2006, Ruf)
- On The Jimmy Reed Highway (2007, Ruf) (with Jimmie Vaughan, Lou Ann Barton and others.)
- Big Town Playboy (2009, Ruf)
- Essential Collection (2012, Ruf) 2CD
- I'm Gone (2012, Big Guitar)
- Too Much is Not Enough (2012, Big Guitar)
- Running With the Wolf (2013, Provogue) (solo album)
References
[edit]- ^ a b Kevin Curtin (30 July 2018), Friends Handle the Heavy Lifting for Kent "Omar" Dykes, Austin Chronicle, retrieved 28 April 2022
- ^ Larkin, Colin (1998). "Dykes, Omar". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Third ed.). London: Macmillan. p. 1671. ISBN 0-333-74134-X.
- ^ An Excerpt From Omar Dykes: The Life & Times of a Poor and Almost Famous Bluesman, Austin Chronicle, 27 November 2020, retrieved 28 April 2022
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