1982: Crosby, Stills & Nash – Daylight Again.1979: The Dudek Finnigan Krueger Band – Special Tour Sampler.1978: Mike Finnigan – Black & White, Columbia Records.1978: Ben Sidran – A Little Kiss in the Night.1976: Mike Finnigan – Mike Finnigan, Warner Bros.1972: Finnigan and Wood – Crazed Hipsters.1971: Big Brother and the Holding Company – How Hard It Is.1970: Jerry Hahn – The Jerry Hahn Brotherhood.1969: The Serfs – The Early Bird Cafe, Capitol Records.Death įinnigan died from liver cancer on August 11, 2021, in Los Angeles at the age of 76. Finnigan was an active blogger, with a fondness for liberal/progressive causes and commentary. They have two children: a daughter, Bridget, and a son, Kelly. He was married for 50 years to Candy Finnigan, an intervention counselor who appeared on the television show Intervention. In 20, he was nominated for a Blues Music Award in the 'Pinetop Perkins Piano Player' category. He was always 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. Subsequently, 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.įinnigan was twice a winner of a Blues Music Award (formerly W.C. He later collaborated with two other Columbia artists, Les Dudek and Jim Krueger, with whom he formed the DFK Band (Dudek, Finnigan, and Krueger) in 1978. He recorded two solo records in the 1970s, one with Jerry Wood.
He then toured and cut an album with Jerry Hahn, The Jerry Hahn Brotherhood released in 1970. 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 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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