The album is dedicated to singer and harmonica player Norton Buffalo, a longtime band member who died shortly after the recording session.
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Having been a sessionplayer at the Apollo Theatre and played every US venue, from tiny Hicksville toilet tours to sell-out arena mega-domes, his attitude was very much "the show must go on".
As he tells NPR's Tavis Smiley, he began working for a local recording company as a sessionplayer when he was just 16, for musicians such as Otis Redding, Eddie Floyd and Wilson Pickett.