Delaney & Bonnie and Friends was a rock/soul revue fronted by husband-and-wife singer/songwriters Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett.

Career

Delaney Bramlett (b. 1 July 1939, Pontotoc County, Mississippi, USA - d. 27 December 2008, Los Angeles, California, USA) learned the guitar in his youth, and migrated to Los Angeles in 1959.Martin, Greg (2002). Liner notes to the 2003 reissue of Delaney & Bonnie's album D&B Together, Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music, catalog no. CK 85743. He became a session musician; his most notable early work was as a member of the Shindogs, the house band for the ABC-TV series Shindig! (1964-66), which also featured guitarist/keyboardist Leon Russell. Bonnie Bramlett (née Bonnie Lynn O'Farrell, b. 8 November 1944, Alton, Illinois, USA) was an accomplished singer at an early age, performing with blues guitarist Albert King at age 14 and in the Ike & Tina Turner Revue at 15Ibid. - the first-ever white Ikette "for three days in a black wig and Man Tan skin darkener."Holzman, Jac and Gavan Daws (1998). Follow the Music - The Life and High Times of Elektra Records in the Great Years of American Pop Culture, FirstMedia, ISBN 0-9661221-1-9, p. 271. She moved to Los Angeles in 1967, and met and married Delaney later that year.