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Jesse Colin Young got his start as a solo act on the folk circuits of Boston and New York and had already cut a couple of unsuccessful albums before deciding to form a band with guitarist Jerry Corbitt. After a failed single called "My Babe", they hired aspiring jazz drummer Joe Bauer and guitarist/pianist Lowell Levinger III, better known simply as "Banana". Young began playing bass when several candidates– including Felix Pappalardi and Harvey Brooks (later of The Electric Flag)–proved incompatible, and the quartet took the name from the singer's second solo album.The group was eventually selected as the house band at New York's famed Cafe Au Go Go and established it... read more