Zach Prather Born in Chicago in 1952 Zach grew up listening to many of the great blues artice. Began playing at an early age of 13. At the age of 15 he did his first recording for Curtis Mayfields company Curtom recordes. This early formation played many of the well known clubs nand concert sites in and around Chicago. At 17 Zach went into the military for two years after returning he again formed a band and continued playing. At this age thou many of Zachs musical influences where not the blues men of Chicago but many of the British groups of that time The Rolling Stones being one of the main influences along with others like the Kinks Small Faces and the Who to just list a few. By 1974 Zach had moved to L.A. and began a relationship with a guitar player named Cash McCall who would become the main influence musicaly in his life for the next 15 years. With Cash Zach meet all of the artise he would play with in the future and the list was long and inpresive ETTA JAMES,SCREEMIN J HAWKINS, WILY DIXON, MINNIE RIPPERTON. After meeting Wily Dixon the two became very close and it was Wily`s idea to record a cd on Zach"He really liked the things I was doing he knew many people thought it was rock and roll I was playing but nobody knew better then Wily where rock and roll came from. It was while they where recording this project that Willy became ill and went into the hospital."I was with him the day before he died. He was the biggest influence in my life he taught me not just about the traditional blues but also that what i was doing was nothing but the blues he would always say "Young blood we are the blues and never let anyone tell you differnt.It was after Willy died that Zach meet and began playing with SCREEMIN J coming to Europe two times a year it was on one of those trips that he meet Luther Allison, Zach soon moved to Paris and began playing with Lou for the next three and a half years he played there "I learned a lot about performing with Lou. Leaving the Luther Allison group was a hard thing but after recording his first cd in Europe NEVER MY LOVE I felt I hade to go out and put all my time into my music. Like Dixon would say if it aint worth youre time it aint worth it. Its been three years and two Cd's plus a new one to be released in Dec. for Zach to find his way back to England and I am very happy to be coming back. www.zach-prather.com  back
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