Roscoe beck biography

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    • Roscoe Beck

    Bass player

    Roscoe Beck

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    Birth nameCharles Roscoe Beck
    Born (1954-04-06) April 6, 1954 (age 70)
    New York, United States
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    Years active1971–present

    Musical artist

    Charles Roscoe Beck (born April 6, 1954) is an American bassist with a reputation as "a solid bottom-liner".[1] Beck has played with artists like Robben Ford, Eric Johnson, Leonard Cohen, and The Dixie Chicks. He is also a successful record producer with two Grammy Award nominations.[1]

    Career

    Roscoe Beck is from Poughkeepsie, New York, and he moved in 1971 to Austin, Texas, where he met and played with Eric Johnson and brothers Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimmie Vaughan.[2] Later in the 1970s he formed an R&B-fusion band called "Passenger" which in 1979 played a gig in Los Angeles where Robben Ford was present and asked them to be the opening act on his tour. After having shuffle