įinnigan is an active blogger, with a fondness for liberal/progressive causes and commentary. If he’s not working on projects for Monophonics or his own stuff, then he is writing, producing, engineering for solo artists, bands etc. Kelly, his son is the lead singer and organ player of Bay Area-based indie-soul auteurs Monophonics, has released his debut solo album, Kelly Finnigan and The Atonements The Tales People Tell, via Colemine Records. They have two grown children, Bridget and Kelly.
She is an intervention counselor who has appeared on the television show Intervention.
He has been married to Candy Finnigan for 50 years. In 20, Finnigan was nominated for a Blues Music Award in the ‘Pinetop Perkins Piano Player’ category. įinnigan has always been active politically and was, for several years, a regular contributor to the weblog Crooks and Liars. Handy Award) for his work with Taj Mahal as a member of the Phantom Blues Band. He is twice a winner of a Blues Music Award (formerly W.C. More recently, his work featured on a CD by The Finnigan Brothers (NashFilms Records), a collaboration with his younger brother Sean and founding member of Bread, Robb Royer. He later collaborated with two other Columbia artists, Les Dudek and Jim Krueger, with whom he formed DFK (Dudek, Finnigan, and Krueger) in 1978. He recorded two solo records in the 1970s, one with Jerry Wood. The Serfs were the house band at a nightclub in Wichita, Kansas at the time. įinnigan recorded Early Bird Cafe with the Serfs in the late 1960s, with Tom Wilson producing. įinnigan has 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, Bonnie Raitt, and Saving Escape. Finnigan was born in Troy, Ohio, and attended the University of Kansas on a basketball scholarship.
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