Coalkitchen

Coal Kitchen was formed when the San Francisco based band, Devil’s Kitchen, originally from Southern Illinois, broke up in the summer of 1970 a couple weeks after playing the Kickapoo Rock Festival, and at just about the same time, the local Carbondale, Illinois based band, Coal Dust, was re-forming after falling apart. There were three left from Devil’s Kitchen and they stayed in C’dale and were still gigging. They all got together to jam one day and without much real planning, just merged the two groups into Coal Kitchen…

The band’s original lineup was: from Devil’s Kitchen, Robbie Stokes on lead guitar, Randy Bradle on drums, and Brett Champlin on rhythm guitar and vocals. From Coal Dust it was Carla on lead vocals, Bob Pina on keys, and Andre M. on Bass.