Biography

The quintessential cult band, the ever-idiosyncratic NRBQ soldiered on for decades with their quirky brand of roots-rock, encompassing country, jazz, power-pop, rockabilly, and more. Terry Adams's often-dischordant, jazz-inflected keyboards and Big Al Anderson's twangy guitar were at the center of the band's sound in it's most popular 1980s/'90s incarnation. In the mid-'90s, Anderson (who had replaced founding guitarist Steve Ferguson in 1971) left for a profitable career as a Nashville songwriter. His spot was ably filled by bassist Joey Spampinato's brother Johnny, and the band continued merrily down its crooked path into the new millennium.

Top Tracks

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• A Better Word For Love

• A Girl Like That

• A Little Bit Of Bad

• C'mon Everybody

• C'mon If You're Comin'

• Designated Driver

• Flat Foot Flewzy

• Get Rhythm

• Green Lights

• Here Comes Terry

• Hot Biscuits And Sweet Marie

• Howard Johnson's Got His Ho-jo Workin'

• Howard Johnson's Got His Ho-jo Working

• I Didn't Know Myself

• I Got A Rocket In My Pocket

• I Gotta Go, Babe

• I Like That Girl

• I Love Air Conditioning

• I Love Her, She Loves Me

• I Want You Bad

• Ida

• I'm Satisfied

• It Was A Accident

• It's A Wild Weekend

• Me And The Boys

• My Life With You

• Never Take The Place Of You

• Only You

• Queen Talk

• Rain At The Drive-in

• Rc Cola And A Moon Pie

• Red's Piano

• Ridin' In My Car

• Rocket #9/no Identification

• Rocket Number Nine

• Sitting In The Park

• Still In School

• That I Get Back Home

• Things To You

• This Old House

• Wacky Tobacky

• When It's Summertime In The Wintertime

• Who Put The Garlic In The Glue?

Discography

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• Keep This Love Goin'

  Burnside / Clang

  2011

• Atsa My Band

  NRBQ Records

  2002

• Live from Mountain Stage

  Blue Plate / Blue Plate

  2002

• NRBQ [1999]

  Rounder Select / Rounder

  1999

• You Gotta Be Loose: Recorded Live in U.S.A.

  Rounder Select / New Rounder / Rounder

  1998

• You're Nice People You Are

  Rounder

  1997

• Tokyo: Recorded Live at on Air West Tokyo

  Rounder

  1997

• Message for the Mess Age

  Wounded Bird Records

  1994

• Honest Dollar

  Rykodisc

  1992

• Wild Weekend

  Virgin

  1989

• Diggin' Uncle Q (Live)

  Rounder Select / Rounder

  1988

• God Bless Us All

  Rounder

  1987

• Lou and the Q

  Rounder

  1986

• Tapdancin' Bats

  Rounder

  1983

• Tiddlywinks

  Rounder Select / Rounder

  1980

• Kick Me Hard

  Rounder

  1979

• NRBQ at Yankee Stadium

  Mercury

  1978

• All Hopped Up

  Rounder

  1977

• Workshop

  Sundazed

  1973

• NRBQ [1969]

  Columbia

  1969