Ranked by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the top fifty bass guitar players of all time, Sklar can count coup on laying down bass lines on such well known tracks as: “You’ve Got a Friend” (James Taylor), “Running on Empty” (Jackson Browne), “No Other” (Gene Clark) and literally thousands more by the pantheon of Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Famers.
Sudden Signs of Grace kicks off things right with a driving track, “It’s All in the Skies” and the album continues song after song of easy listening melodic rock, with cool hooks that draw us in track after track. Solid guitar work all around, including the sweetest thematic lick that could go on forever.
Driving the beat on a few thousand milestone recordings is the legendary percussionist, Russ Kunkel. For decades he’s been a first call drummer for folks like James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, Bob Seger, Warren Zevon, Harry Chapin, Bob Dylan, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Neil Young, Steve Nicks, Dan Fogelberg and a long, long list of others.
To say that guitarist James Burton is busy would be a gross understatement. With his 70th birthday right around the corner, the Louisiana native shows no sign of slowing down. After a highly successful career as both a leader and a sideman spanning more than 50 years, most guitarists would be looking forward to hanging up the axe and enjoying some time off, but not Burton. Having recently returned from performing in Holland with the TCB band, he’s busy preparing for the
One of New York areas finest rockers, Debra Devi is a multi-talented artist who can jam with the best of them. She has performed in numerous bands as well as fronts her own group, DEVI. Deb recently released her new EP, A Zillion Stars Overhead…
For those unfamiliar, there’s a new band in town called, The Immediate Family, that includes some of the finest musicians of our time. One of the five principals in the band is guitarist-producer-songwriter extraordinaire, Danny Kortchmar. Along with Waddy Wachtel (guitar/vocals), Leland Sklar (bass), Russ Kunkel (Percussion) and Steve Postell (guitar/vocals)
Multi-instrumentalist, recording engineer, producer and Nashville-based songwriter, Stacy Hogan, launched a tour earlier this year to promote his latest project, Sin Shake Sin, as well as feel the rush of performing in front of both new and soon to be fans.
Don Felder’s storied life followed a road that pulled him into the world of the blues, rockabilly and rock music. He studied the licks, the riffs and the styles of the pioneers of rock, R&B and the blues, including Elvis, Carl Perkins, B.B. King and Little Richard. And a young Don Felder would find himself buying mail order “race records”, that couldn’t be found in local shops.
Serious Rush fans become knowledgeable aficionados of the group as a whole, the members as professional artists and performers, and have their own stories to tell of concerts, detailed accounts of Rush albums and songs, but more often than not, they listen and become immersed in the emotional heft of Rush music.
One of my first interviews in the music industry was with Lee Dickson, who has been Eric Clapton’s guitar technician for nearly a quarter of a century.
