Bman's Blues Report

Larry Graham Jr. was born on August 14, 1946 in Beaumont, Texas but he was raised in Oakland, California. At the age of 5 he began preparing for his life course as a performer by learning to tap dance and shortly thereafter began to take piano lessons. In Junior high he joined the school band playing drums which he continued to do all the way through high school. However at the age of 11 his father gave him his own personal guitar since his father decided he wasn’t going to perform anymore. Larry then taught himself to play and that same year he began his professional music career playing in his first band. At 13 he recorded his first record. By his teens he was playing a number of instruments including the drums, piano, guitar, bass and harmonica. At 15 he joined his mother’s band – “The Dell Graham Trio”. His mother played piano, with him on guitar and Ruben Kerr on drums (a member of his first band). At age 15, one of the nightclubs where they performed regularly had a house organ a...