Afghan Whigs consists of Greg Dulli (lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist), John Curley (bassist), Paul Buchignani (drummer, percussionist), Rick Mccollum (lead guitarist).
The Afghan Whigs were an American soul-influenced alternative rock band of the 1990s. While they achieved moderate success - Rolling Stone described the band as spending "the bulk of their career on the brink of stardom" - they've "never quite broken beyond a substantial legion of devotees enamored of their thinly veiled sleaze."
Greg Dulli (vocals, rhythm guitar), John Curley (bass), Rick McCollum (lead guitar) and Steve Earle (drums -- not to be confused with Steve Earle) formed the band in Cincinnati in 1986. Their 1988 debut album Big Top Halloween on their independent record label called Ultrasuede created a buzz in the independent music community, and the band soon signed to Sub Pop of Seattle in 1989, the first non-local band to do so. In 1990, Up in It was released; this was followed by the critically acclaimed 1992 album Congregation and a covers EP, Uptown Avondale.
The Afghan Whigs then signed to a major label, Elektra Records, and released another critically acclaimed album, Gentlemen that failed to break the band into the mainstream, though it spawned the minor hits "Debonair" & "Gentlemen". They contributed "Fountain and Fairfax" to the soundtrack for the television series My So-Called Life in 1994.
For the next few years, personnel problems interfered with recording and touring, and the band released two more albums - Black Love in 1996 and 1965 in 1998 on Columbia Records - before they broke up in 2001.
In 1996, Greg Dulli served as executive producer for the soundtrack for the Ted Demme film Beautiful Girls. The Afghan Whigs appeared in the film as a bar band and contributed the Frederick Knight cover "Be For Real" and the Barry White cover "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe" to the soundtrack.
