1. Carl Dean Radle was an American bassist who toured and recorded with many of the most influential recording artists of the late 1960s and 1970s.
15 Facts About Carl Radle
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Carl Radle was posthumously inducted to the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame in 2006.
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Carl Dean Radle was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma on June 18,1942.
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Carl Radle was best known for his long association with Eric Clapton, starting in 1969 with Delaney and Bonnie and Friends and continuing in 1970 with Derek and the Dominos, recording with drummer Jim Gordon, guitarist Duane Allman, and keyboardist Bobby Whitlock.
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Carl Radle was instrumental in facilitating Clapton's return to recording and touring in 1974.
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Carl Radle served as more than a sideman, acting as arranger on several songs, notably "Motherless Children".
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Carl Radle earned credit as an associate producer of Clapton's album No Reason to Cry.
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Carl Radle was a member of Colours, a psychedelic cult band from Dot Records for whom he played on the first album and guest appeared on the second.
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In 1970, Carl Radle joined Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour.
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Carl Radle was a session musician for many of the most famous blues rock and rock and roll artists in the 1970s, including Rita Coolidge and Kris Kristofferson.
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Carl Radle appeared in the film The Concert for Bangladesh; recordings from that concert were released as an album in 1972.
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Carl Radle can be seen in Martin Scorsese's 1978 film The Last Waltz, which documented the final concert of The Band, held in 1976.
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Carl Radle died at his home in Claremore, Oklahoma in May 1980, from the effects of alcohol and narcotics; he was 37.
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The Layla Sessions featured studio jamming with Carl Radle, and Live at the Fillmore was a live performance that originally took place in October 1970.
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Carl Radle was posthumously inducted to the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame in 2006.