Alan Gorrie, best known as the bassist and founding member of Average White Band, is celebrating his 80th birthday on Sunday.

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The intro to the Average White Band's "Pick Up The Pieces" is everything you could possibly want an intro to be. A guitar rings out, tense and coiled. Underneath it, a drone rises. Big bass tones ...

Improperly named, the Average White Band was anything but. First off, one of the rhythm guys, at least by this point, wasn't white. Second, and this is far more important, they funked it up with a ...

The band's initial beginnings stem from a like-minded enthusiasm for R&B and Soul music, as original founding member Alan Gorrie had built a workshop in Perth, Scotland for aspiring players in the ...

This Thursday funk favorites Average White Band take the stage at BB Kings average white bandness. While their songs have echoed through the decades both on radio as well as through climactic scenes ...