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Matti Pellonpää, Duke Robillard, and Mato Valtonen in Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989)

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Duke Robillard

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  • Born
    October 4, 1948 · Woonsocket, Rhode Island, USA
  • Birth name
    Michael John Robillard

Biography

  • Blues guitarist Duke Robillard was born in 1948 in Woonsocket, RI. He was a blues aficionado and in 1967 began a blues band, Roomful of Blues. Although it had a following in New England and even cut a few albums, the band couldn't break nationally, and Robillard disbanded it in 1979. He formed a new band, The Duke Robillard Band (later changed to Duke Robillard and the Pleasure Kings). The band cut a few albums in the 1980s.

    In 1990 Robillard replaced Jimmie Vaughan in The Fabulous Thunderbirds. In 1992 he left that band and formed one of his own.
    - IMDb mini biography by: frankfob2@yahoo.com

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  • Named "Best Blues Guitarist" by The Blues Foundation's W.C. Handy Awards in 2000 and 2001
  • Leads The Duke Robillard Band
  • Founder/member of Roomful of Blues.

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