David Teegarden is an American musician who was a member of the American psych-rock group Teegarden & Van Winkle. He is a resident of Tulsa,

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. Teegarden has worked with many

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s including J. J. Cale,

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, Joe Walsh, and

Bob Seger Robert Clark Seger ( ; born May 6, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he performed and recorded as Bob Seger and the Last Heard and The Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s, break ...

. In 1981, Teegarden won a Grammy for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for '' Against the Wind'' with Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band. Teegarden appeared on the ''

Smokin' O.P.'s ''Smokin' O.P.'s'' is the fifth studio album by American rock singer-songwriter Bob Seger, released in 1972 (see 1972 in music). The album was reissued on CD by Capitol Records in 2005. It is currently the earliest Bob Seger album available on ...

'' album with Bob Seger as a member of Teegarden & Van Winkle, with guitarist Michael Bruce (not the Michael Bruce who played with Alice Cooper) and also appeared on the albums '' Nine Tonight'', '' Stranger in Town'', ''Against the Wind'', and '' The Fire Inside'' with Seger, as a member of the Silver Bullet Band. Teegarden currently owns and runs Teegarden Studios, located in the historic Pearl District of Tulsa, Oklahoma. (https://teegardenstudios.com/about/) Teegarden was inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame on June 14, 2017. Despite the differences in spelling of their last names, jazz trombonist Weldon Leo Jack Teagarden, Detroit Free Press writer-columnist Carol Teegardin, and David Teegarden are all related.

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David Teegarden
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David Teegarden Interview
at NAMM Oral History Collection (2002) Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American rock drummers Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band members Musicians from Tulsa, Oklahoma {{US-rock-drummer-stub