John Compton

JOHN COMPTON   (aka John Parker Compton)


                                                                                                                                    
Singer-songwriter and guitarist John Parker Compton co-founded the acoustic band Appaloosa with violinist Robin Batteau in the late '60s.
John Parker Compton - 'Live at the Turk's Head Coffeehouse' perfectly captures a 1968 live show. As the 1972 press release for Compton's solo album, 'To Luna' tells it, John Compton showed up at producer Al Kooper's Columbia Records' office in late 1968, hoping to show Kooper some of his songs. Uninterested, Kooper told the kid (Compton was 18) to "come back some other time." But a little while later, Kooper came in on Compton and Batteau performing for the office secretaries. Won over, Kooper recorded their demo, and within a year the newly signed musicians had an album out, the self-titled debut from their group Appaloosa. German music magazine Oldie-Markt called it “One of the finest examples of folk and folk rock.”John Compton and his band Appaloosa performed at the Fillmore East, Dec.26-28, 1969 along with the Allman Brothers, and Blood, Sweat, and Tears. Compton & Batteau, recorded Compton & Batteau in California for Columbia.