| Member Since | 7/17/2006 | | Band Members | These are the insanely talented folks who just finished making my new record "Blood & Dust":
BRIAN WRIGHT - lead/rhythm guitars, bg vox, percussion, mandolin, producer
BILL LEFLER - rhythm guitars, percussion, producer
JON FLAUGHER (JONNY FLOWER) - bass guitar
JOE AYOUB - bass guitar, upright bass, arco bass, bg vox
STELLA MOZGAWA - drums
THE DEACON - drums, percussion
KENNY ARONOFF - drums
PAUL ALLEN - drums, percussion, bg vox
KENNY LYON - lead/rhythm guitars
JASON "ACE" GONZALEZ - rhythm guitars, mandola
BEN PEELER - pedal steel
KAMASI WASHINGTON - tenor sax
JAMES "I AM THE" KING - baritone sax
SAL - lead vox, bg vox, piano, vibraphone, rhythm guitars, percussion, keyboards, producer
FIL KROHNENGOLD - organs, accordion
JEN KUHN - cello
MICHAEL STARR - fiddle
and all these folks contributed their bg vox stylings to one or more of my tunes:
GREG LASWELL, JIM BIANCO, LINDSEY RAY, SALLY JAYE, TIM JONES, SCOTT KINNEBREW, WILLIAM "LORD" BYRON "SMITTY" SMITH, DR. WALKER YOUNG & last, but certainly not least, MATT RAMSEY | | Influences | My Grandmother, the old man who led singing at my church when I was 8, Oscar Peterson, The 2nd Chapter of Acts, Sam Cooke, the Band, Andrae Crouch, Bob Dylan, Wilson Pickett, the Beatles, U2, Charlie Brown & the Peanuts gang (especially Schroeder), Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, CCR (I mean, really just John Fogerty ), Bob Seger, Louis Jordan, Mrs. Stubakowski (SP?), Chico Marx (and the rest of the Marx Bros. for that matter), Alfred Hitchcock Presents..., Red Garland, Big Joe Turner & Pete Johnson, Nick Lowe, Randy Newman, Ray Charles, Leonard Cohen, Harry Nilsson, Fats Waller, Sonny Rollins, Bowser from Sha-Na-Na, Vinnie Barbarino from Welcome Back Kotter, and most definitely, The Fonz, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, the Meters, Neapolitan love songs, Jerry Vale, New Orleans piano playing by way of Professor Longhair by way of Fats Domino by way of James Booker by way of Dr. John, Van Morrison, Roy Orbison and last, but not least, Wolfie. | | Sounds Like | a saloon. Like a whorehouse... with a touch of the Gospel message thrown in for good measure. | | Record Label | Oakwilde Records | | Type of Label | Indie |
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