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14 Facts About Dallas Hodge

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Dallas Hodge was born on 1954 and is an American blues rock singer, guitarist, songwriter and record producer.

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Dallas Hodge has released two solo albums since 2007, with the most recent, Don't Forget About The Music We Made appearing in the US Billboard Blues Albums Chart.

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Dallas Hodge is the younger brother of fellow blues musician, Catfish Hodge.

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Dallas Hodge was born in Detroit, Michigan, United States, and commenced guitar playing by the age of 13.

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In 1978, Dallas Hodge relocated to Santa Cruz, California, where he met and played alongside Steve Marriott.

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Hodge formed his own band called Deluxe and, in 1981, Dallas joined Johnny Winter on stage at a concert in San Francisco, California.

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Dallas Hodge played with, among others, Delbert McClinton and Bonnie Raitt.

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From around this time until 2000, Dallas Hodge ran a band based in his hometown, called the Detroit Allstars, which included among others Drew Abbott and Chris Campbell and Tim "The Professor" Sparling.

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In 2000, Dallas Hodge was auditioned and joined Canned Heat as their frontman.

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In 2003, Canned Heat released, Friends in the Can, on which Dallas Hodge performed alongside John Paulus, Greg Kage, Stanley Behrens and Fito de la Parra.

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In 2005, Dallas Hodge left Canned Heat to focus on a solo career.

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In 2009, Dallas Hodge was contacted by Alto Reed, who had previously worked as the saxophonist for Bob Seger, and invited to join Reed's West Coast Blues Entourage.

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In 2017, Dallas Hodge was a semi-finalist at the International Blues Challenge.

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In 2019, Dallas Hodge got together a new outfit to record his second solo album.