Biography
In the tapestry of British rock, Trevor Burton holds a curious place. Though a dedicated blues aficionado whose career now stretches past four decades, the period that still draws the most attention remains the three years he spent in the pop-rock outfit the Move, a group he helped establish. While performing alongside Danny King & The Mayfair Set, he joined Roy Wood, Ace Kefford, Carl Wayne, and Bev Bevan after an impromptu late-night session; together they launched the Move, whose singular blend of pop-rock and psychedelia dominated the British charts for the next four years under Wood’s primary creative direction. Burton’s own stamp appeared chiefly through the incisive guitar lines that threaded between the band’s idiosyncratic classical and R&B motifs. He departed in 1969, weary of the group’s commercial leanings and eager to pursue an independent path that briefly materialized in the band Balls alongside Steve Gibbons. That project proved short-lived, and by the early 1970s Burton had shifted to session work. He remained with the Steve Gibbons Band through the latter half of the 1970s and the first half of the 1980s, later appeared with Robert Plant in the Journeyman Musicians, and also served a stint in Dexy’s Midnight Runners. Since the 1990s he has fronted the Trevor Burton Band, delivering blues strictly on his own terms.
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