Omar Kent Dykes

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Omar Kent Dykes (born Kent Dykes, 1950, McComb, Mississippi, United States) is an American blues guitarist and singer living in Austin, Texas. In 1973 he formed the band, Omar & the Howlers. The band plays electric Texas blues, rock and roll and blues-rock. Omar has also had a successful carrer as a solo artist, and regularly toured European countries.

[edit] Discography

• Big Leg Beat (1980, Stomp)
• I Told You So (1984, Dixiefrog)
• Hard Times In The Land Of Plenty (1987, Columbia)
• Wall Of Pride (1988, Columbia)
• Monkey Land (1990, Antone's)
• Blues Bag (1991, Provogue) (solo album)
• Live At Paradiso (1992, Provogue)
• Courts Of Lulu (1993, Provogue)
• Muddy Springs Road (1994, Provogue)
• World Wide Open (1995, Provogue)
• Southern Style (1996, Provogue)
• On The Jimmy Reed Highway' (2007, Ruf/Bonnier Amigo) (with Jimmie Vaughan, Lou Ann Barton and others.)