1. Michael Kelly Finnigan was an American keyboard player and vocalist, his specialty being the B3 Hammond organ.
10 Facts About Mike Finnigan
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Mike Finnigan was born in Troy, Ohio, and attended the University of Kansas on a basketball scholarship.
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Mike Finnigan toured with and sessioned for Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker, Etta James, Sam Moore, Crosby Stills and Nash, Dave Mason, Buddy Guy, The Manhattan Transfer, Taj Mahal, Michael McDonald, Maria Muldaur, Peter Frampton, Cher, Ringo Starr, Leonard Cohen, Tower of Power, Rod Stewart, David Coverdale, Tracy Chapman, Los Lonely Boys, and Bonnie Raitt.
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Mike Finnigan recorded Early Bird Cafe with the Serfs in the late 1960s, with Tom Wilson producing.
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Mike Finnigan then toured and cut an album with Jerry Hahn, The Jerry Hahn Brotherhood released in 1970.
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Mike Finnigan recorded two solo records in the 1970s, one with Jerry Wood.
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Mike Finnigan later collaborated with two other Columbia artists, Les Dudek and Jim Krueger, with whom he formed the DFK Band in 1978.
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Mike Finnigan was always active politically and was, for several years, a regular contributor to the weblog Crooks and Liars.
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Mike Finnigan was married for 50 years to Candy Finnigan, an intervention counselor who appeared on the television show Intervention.
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Mike Finnigan died from liver cancer on August 11,2021, in Los Angeles at the age of 76.