Denny Freeman

Dennis Edward Freeman (August 7, 1944 – April 25, 2021) was an American Texas and electric blues guitarist.

Early life Freeman was born in Orlando, Florida, on August 7, 1944. He spent his adolescence in Dallas, Texas, in the late 1950s and played in a rock group called The Corals while in high school. He went to college in North Texas, and had a brief stay in Los Angeles, before relocating in 1970 to Austin, Texas. He later recorded with Lou Ann Barton. Dylan's album, Modern Times was recorded with Dylan's then touring band, including Freeman, Tony Garnier, George G. Receli, Stu Kimball, plus multi-instrumentalist Donnie Herron. |Bob Dylan|August 2006, Rolling Stone Denny Freeman - Austin Music Awards Hall of Fame Induction (2010).

Clem Burke played the drums on Freeman's solo offering, Twang Bang (2006).

Later life Freeman was inducted into the Austin Music Awards Hall of Fame in 2009.

Freeman died on April 25, 2021, in Austin, Texas. He was 76, and was diagnosed with abdominal cancer several weeks before his death.

Credits Freeman co-wrote "Baboom/Mama Said" on The Vaughan Brothers' 1990 album, Family Style He played piano on Jimmie Vaughan's 1994 album, Strange Pleasure, and organ on his 1998 follow-up, Out There. He co-wrote "Boom Boom in the Zoom Zoom Room" on Blondie's 1999 No Exit album. Freeman played guitar on Taj Mahal and the Phantom Blues Band's Grammy Award winning live album, Shoutin' in Key (2000). He played guitar on Percy Sledge's 2004 album, Shining Through the Rain, and co-wrote with Fontaine Brown the song "Love Come and Rescue Me". He played guitar on Bob Dylan’s 2006 album Modern Times. Freeman played guitar, organ and piano on Doyle Bramhall's 2007 album, Is It News. He played guitar on two of Barry Goldberg's albums, Stoned Again (2002) and In the Groove (2018).

Discography Blues Cruise (1986) – Amazing Out of the Blue (1987) – Amazing Denny Freeman (1991) – Amazing A Tone for My Sins (1997) – Dallas Blues Society Denny Freeman and the Cobras (live album) (2000) – Crosscut (Germany) Twang Bang (2006) – V8 Diggin on Dylan (2012) – V8 Records