The Accents

The Minneapolis band “The Accents”, recorded on the Garrett label, then distributed through Soma Records. Influenced by Lonnie Mack, they were a solid rhythm & blues band.
Leader, Bill Miller, played Wurlitzer piano with Kenny Sands an excellent lead guitarist and Tom Green on drums, who later joined “The Underbeats”. Skip Dahlin, bass, and I used to listen to music together.
“Why”, by Lonnie Mack was one of the songs recorded by “The Accents” for the LP album “Big Hits Of Mid-America”, which also included “Wherever There’s A Will”. “Searchin” a song by the writing team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller was another and blues bassist, Willie Dixon, provided “Howlin’ for My Baby”.
I was always impressed with the vocals of “The Accents” and the Austin Healy 3000 that Bill Miller drove.