Archie Turner (musician)

Detroit, Michigan, the son of Horace Turner Sr., who died when Archie was a young child. He acquired the nickname "Hubbie" (sometimes spelled "Hubby" or "Hubie") in childhood, and moved with his brother Horace to Memphis, where they lived with their grandmother. Archie began taking piano lessons, and then lived with his mother, her second husband – musician Willie Mitchell – and their daughters. He attended a Catholic high school in Memphis, and met brothers Teenie and Leroy Hodges. They soon formed a band, the Impalas, with Archie on keyboards, Horace on drums, and the Hodges brothers on guitar and bass, and played in local clubs and at parties, occasionally substituting for their stepfather Willie Mitchell's own band.^[1]

major to Psychology. He also formed a new rock band, Blackrock, with Cornell McFadden (drums – previously a member of The Insect Trust), Curke Dudley (bass), and Willie Pettis (guitar). They recorded one single, "Blackrock, Yeah, Yeah", for the local Select-O-Hits label, and – with Pettis replaced by Larry Lee – traveled to California where they auditioned for Bill Graham, though nothing came of the session and the band split up in 1971.^[1] "Blackrock, Yeah, Yeah", co-written by Turner, was sampled on the 2014 album ...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin by The Roots.^[2]

B. B. King's Blues Club on Beale Street and recorded several albums for Rounder Records.^[1][3]