Derroll Adams

Birthday: November 27, 1925 in Portland, Oregon, USA

Birth Name: Derroll Lewis Thompson

Folk musician, banjo picker and singer, Adams arrived in Britain at the peak of the "skiffle" movement and remained. He busked around Europe with "Ramblin'" Jack Elliott, shar ...Show More

Folk musician, banjo picker and singer, Adams arrived in Britain at the peak of the "skiffle" movement and remained. He busked around Europe with "Ramblin'" Jack Elliott, sharing a house in Waterloo, London, with among others Lionel Bart. Moved to Belgium after "Don't Look Back", by which time alcohol dependency had kicked in. Dried out in 1972 after a near-fatal collapse and made comeback album "Feelin' Fine" with Wiz Jones. Wrote songs "Portland Town" and "Wish I was a Rock". Hide