It featured backing by his touring band of the time, with keyboardist Augie Meyers added for the sessions.

He assembled a backing band consisting of Tommy Allsup ( guitar ), Waylon Jennings ( bass ) and Carl Bunch ( drums ), and billed them as The Crickets.

Today, the Commodores consist of Walter " Clyde " Orange, Nicholas and King, along with a backing band.

( One original member of Gypsy Fever, backing vocalist Richard Dennison, has remained with Parton's organization through the early 2010s, serving as a supporting vocalist, as well as the vocal arranger for Parton's band.

Characterised by the heavy rock sound of his new backing band, it was a marked departure from the acoustic guitar and folk rock style established by Space Oddity.

Some tracks were composed using Eno and Peter Schmidt's Oblique Strategies cards: " Boys Keep Swinging " entailed band members swapping instruments, " Move On " used the chords from Bowie's early composition " All the Young Dudes " played backwards, and " Red Money " took backing tracks from " Sister Midnight ", a piece previously composed with Iggy Pop.

Bowie's backing band included Peter Frampton on lead guitar.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

Jones sang his signature solo hit " Girl ", with a grunge band providing backing, this time with middle-aged women swooning over him.

It is with this technology that Lee and his bandmates are able to present their arrangements in a live setting with the level of complexity and fidelity that fans have come to expect, and without the need to resort to the use of backing tracks or employing an additional band member.

The backing band included Clarence White, Pete Kleinow, and Chris Etheridge.

The confusion of the band was that for years, the Famous Flames were often mistaken for Brown's backing band ; fellow Famous Flame Byrd was also a member of the backing band at one point.

That year, Brown also launched, under King auspices, Try Me Records, releasing records off singers such as Tammy Montgomery, Johnny & Bill and the Poets, the latter group confirmed to be that of Brown's backing band.

Joplin first rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of the psychedelic-acid rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a solo artist with her more soulful and bluesy backing groups, The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band.

With live band karaoke, singers sing with a live band instead of the prerecorded backing track.

Cliff Richard and his backing band, The Shadows, were the most successful home grown rock and roll based acts of the era.

The band is composed of bassist, keyboardist, and lead vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist and backing vocalist Alex Lifeson, and drummer, percussionist and lyricist Neil Peart.

It is with this technology that the group is able to present their arrangements in a live setting with the level of complexity and fidelity fans have come to expect, and without the need to resort to the use of backing tracks or employing an additional band member.

They performed " Can't Fight This Feeling " and " Roll With the Changes ", which featured members of the Beach Boys, the REO Speedwagon band members ' families, and Paul Shaffer on stage for backing vocals.

The duo began performing their own music in and around New York City — Flansburgh on guitar, Linnell on accordion and saxophone, and accompanied by a drum machine or prerecorded backing track on audio cassette.

The duo played versions of " Alive And Kicking ", " Belfast Child " and " Don't You ( Forget About Me )" backed by a full orchestra and were billed as Simple Minds — something which emphasised the degree to which the band remained a Kerr / Burchill project with backing musicians.

They began to gig regularly as a duo, performing to backing tracks played from a Teac 4 track tape-recorder christened " Winston " ( after the antihero of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-four ).

The backing tracks were allegedly produced with the intention of being released as a Dust Brothers instrumental album, but the Beastie Boys convinced the duo to use the tracks as the basis of their follow up to Licensed to Ill.

Lennox and Stewart then activated their new Eurythmics mode of operation by touring the record as a duo, accompanied by backing tracks and electronics, carted around the country themselves in a horse-box.

The duo became an opening act for Parliament-Funkadelic tours and also performed backing vocals for the ensemble itself.

The band was formed by Mike Badger in 1984 and Mavers joined soon after although for most of the group's history, the frequently changing line-up revolved around the core duo of Lee Mavers ( vocals, guitar ) and John Power ( bass, backing vocals ) along with numerous other guitarists and drummers including Paul Hemmings, Chris Sharrock, Barry Sutton, Neil Mavers and Peter " Cammy " Camell.

In addition to working with Dream Theater he occasionally records and performs in other contexts, such as a 2001 one-off duo performance with Petrucci ( released as the CD An Evening With John Petrucci and Jordan Rudess ), as well as backing up Blackfield on their first short US tour in 2005 and playing a solo opening slot for them on their second in 2007.

Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine was formed in 1988, when Fruitbat and Jim Bob were the only band members to turn up for a charity gig at the London Astoria, and went on stage to perform as a duo with backing tapes.

This would lead Becker and Fagen to move to being a studio duo with varied backing on following albums, still under the name Steely Dan.

With so many changes in the band's line-up they officially became a duo, with backing musicians as needed on tour and in the studio.

A second album Ferguslie Park was released in 1974, with the duo backed up by nine backing musicians.

After it, the duo charted at number 5 with " My Heart Is Lost to You " and number 12 with a cover of Kim Richey's " Every River ", featuring a backing vocal from Richey.

The Theatre round is where a specially selected group of auditioners from all regional auditions converge ( always in the host city ) to perform in three sub stages: a chorus line in groups of 10 where free song choices are allowed, a trio ( or less commonly a duo or quartet ) where contestants must memorize a preselected song to perform and choreograph together, and finally a solo a cappella round where contestants sing a song of their own choice without musical backing in front of friends, family, judges & fellow contestants.

With the general upset surrounding Webb's passing, David Puttick, an artist and composer, had a large part in the composition behind the songs " Auguststrasse 18 " and " Limited Excess ", by donating two of his own compositions to be used as backing tracks for the guitar duo, but was ( erroneously ) never credited. After the release of " Sounds Of St Lucia ", which featured a live version of " Auguststrasse 18 " in 2003, five years after Nick Webb's untimely death, the matter of credits to David Puttick had still been forgotten.

Although their careers were closely connected ( Skydiggers, in fact, often played as Andrew's backing band at the Spadina Hotel ), they never wrote or performed together as a duo.

Souther has also contributed as a singer in works written by other artists, including backing vocals with Don Henley in " The Light Is On " by Christopher Cross on his eponymous debut album ; on the songs " False Faces " and " Loose Ends " on Dan Fogelberg's 1976 LP Nether Lands ; and in the duo ( with Fogelberg ) called the Hot Damn Brothers on Fogelberg's 1975 LP Captured Angel.

The duo emulated their early performances, using only a Digital Audio Tape ( DAT ) player for their backing tracks.

* Hip-hop duo Atmosphere sampled the " Breast Milky " section of the suite for the backing track on the song " Painting " from their 2008 album, When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold

The duo played the northern clubs using pre-recorded backing tracks.

Hopper and Morris continued to play a few acoustic live shows as a duo into 1999, occasionally with accompaniment ( such as Philadelphia bassist Billy Warburton and drummer Lance Crow ) and attempted to record an EP for record label Vital Cog with a drum machine as backing, but ended up putting Magnapop on an indefinite hiatus.

The two formed a duo and started achieving local success backing French musicians such as Francis Cabrel, Laurent Voulzy, and the French group Gold.

Formed around the core duo of Henry Font ( vocals, guitars ) and Val. Ium ( bass, backing vocals ), the band released two demos in the early 1990s, the second of which, Urine the Money, was produced by Josh Silver of Type O Negative.

Lombardo formed the folk rock duo John & Mary with the classically trained Mary Ramsey, who played violin and viola for 10, 000 Maniacs and sang backing vocals on the 1993 album MTV Unplugged.