![]() ![]() The group eventually played the legendary Apollo Theater in Harlem and appeared on the national Merv Griffin TV show. ![]() Soul star James Brown discovered him and arranged for Setser’s band, The Dapps, to record for King Records in Cincinnati. He picked up the guitar at age 12 and started playing in Ohio nightclubs when he was 18. It has been recorded by Dutch, Czechoslovakian, Norwegian, Estonian, French, Yugoslavian, Australian, Finnish, Jamaican and Swedish artists.Įddie Setser was born in Kentucky, but his family moved to Cincinnati when he was 10 years old. 1 smash has also been recorded by rocker Bryan Adams, country’s George Canyon and Stoney LaRue, the bluegrass band Dry Branch Fire Squad, Tex-Mex artist Stephanie Urbina Jones and The Voice contestant Adam Wakefield among many others. Setser is perhaps best known for co-writing the Willie Nelson/ Ray Charles duet hit “Seven Spanish Angels.” This 1985 No. Eddie Setser, one of Music City’s top songwriters of the 1980s, died last week in Kentucky at age 77. ![]()
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