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Michael worked with Chuck Berry in the late sixties on the east coast and also recorded at Electric Lady Studios for Michael Jeffries (Hendrix manager). In the seventies, after moving west, Michael joined both Banana, keyboardist for the Youngbloods, in his band. Michael worked as a side man with jazz singer, Randy Crawford ("Street Life") - picture below. In addition to gigs at major venues, her band also opened for Ronnie Laws, Herbie Hancock, Eddie Harris, Stanley Turentine and other jazz luminaries. For two years, Michael worked with San Francisco organist, Merl Saunders with stints behind singing acts like Hodges, James, and Smith, and others. Michael performed and recorded with Bay area fusion group WBBH. Philip Elwood, in a San Francisco Examiner review of the WBBH record , wrote: "A beauty on the LP called 'Lover's Lullaby' features...Barclay on guitar. Barclay, an impressive front man and guitarist, also is an excellent singer." Michael composed the piece Elwood refers to. His compositions form most of the Michael Barclay Blues Band set list, 12 out of 13 tunes on the CD- Midnight Rendezvous, and, 13 of 14 tunes on the CD, Soul Patch. After gigs with Dorothy Morrison ("Oh happy day") in the notorious Marin jam band, Fast Company, and WBBH, Michael formed and recorded The MICHAEL BARCLAY BLUES BAND. Michael has backed Julian Lage,the late Norton Buffalo, Nick Gravenites, Sarah Baker, Ozzie Ahlers, recently Bo Diddley and others. He produced the most recent recordings of the late Pattie Santos (It's a Beautiful Day). Michael was a featured performer at the Russian River Blues Festival in Sonoma County California; The Sonoma County Blues Festival multiple times where the band was received enthusiastically. Other CDs include: 'Blue Eyed Blues'; 'Black & White'; 'Lazarus'; 'King of Hearts'. The new CD, 'Tracks', includes other genres in addition to Blues, but the blues tunes make up a large percentage of the musical styles.