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Credited to Tommy Bolin and Friends and available as a single disc and two-CD set, 'Great Gypsy Soul' isn't your typical tribute album. The special guests don't just perform Bolin material, they ...
Tommy Bolin, who lived in Boulder in the late 1960s to the mid-'70s, performed with Deep Purple in 1975 and 1976. Some of his old bandmates are performing a tribute show at the Boulder Theater on ...
Deep Purple released 'Come Taste the Band,' their first (and only) album with guitarist Tommy Bolin, on Oct. 10, 1975.
When Ritchie Blackmore left Deep Purple in 1974, there were internal discussions about whether the group could continue without their talisman guitarist. The story goes that David Coverdale, who ...
Bolin's brother, Johnnie Bolin, of Sioux City, provided the memorabilia to go along with a Deep Purple show at the Hard Rock on Friday. Tommy Bolin played with Deep Purple. Tim Hynds, Sioux City ...
Tommy Bolin died young, at 25, just as he was coming into his own as a rock musician. The one-time lead guitarist for the group Deep Purple was found dead of drug overdose in a Miami hotel in 1976.