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Nick Gravenites Dies: Chicago Bluesman Who Cofounded The Electric Flag, Wrote Songs For Janis Joplin And Produced 1971 Hit “One Toke Over The Line” Was 85
Gravenites, who was a cofounder of The Electric Flag and wrote songs for Janis Joplin, was 85.
Nick Gravenites, a Chicago blues musician who relocated to San Francisco in the 1960s and played an important role in that city’s burgeoning rock scene, died Wednesday, September 18, after many months of failing health. Gravenites was born on October 2, 1938, in Chicago, and by the mid-1950s immersed himself in the city’s blues scene, forming, as his website bio puts it, a “coterie of misfit white kids” with such future rock stars as Elvin Bishop, Paul Butterfield and Michael Bloomfield. Other Gravenites songs were recorded by such artists as Pure Prairie League, Tracy Nelson, Roy Buchanan, Jimmy Witherspoon as well as several of the blues greats he had long worshipped like Howlin’ Wolf, Otis Rush, and James Cotton.
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