All keyed up ben tankard biography

Okay, so first things first, I know we’re well late on covering this one, but it really is timeless, so what’s a few months between friends, right? And if the remarkable drum machine boogie meets midi jazz-fusion sound of this release wasn’t enough, how good is the backstory?

After spending several months out-of-work and homeless, Daytona Beach, Florida’s Ben Tankard - a promising young NBA player whose career was prematurely cut short after a devastating injury at a Portland Trailblazers pre-camp in 1983 - wandered into a church one evening. He was hungry, and he’d heard they served a free fried chicken dinner at the sermon. In his words, “Once I got there the minister’s sermon hit home for me because it was preaching on the subject of bouncing back from disappointment. I responded to the salvation altar call and afterwards, the preacher called me up and told me to sit down to the keyboard and put my hands on the keys ‘by faith’.” Tankard felt an instant connection with the instru