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It's a stretch to consider this Fresno based band to be geographically part of East Bay, but Ray Camacho and the Teardrops (sometimes The Ray Camacho Group) were indelibly a corner stone of music on both sides of the Bay in the 60's and 70's. Able…

Rodger Collins was born in Texas circa 1940, but his family was among the massive migration of Southern African-Americans who came to the Bay Area in the 40's in search of industrial jobs created by the war. For a long time his 1967, "She's Looking…

Jesse James was part of the WWII era migration of African-Americans to the East Bay. James McClelland was born in 1943 in Eldorado, AR, but his father was a longshoreman who brought the family to Richmond, CA. As a young man he would work in one of…