David Young Blues
David Young
David Young A multi-talented singer, guitarist, the worlds most famous renaissance flautist, writer and producer of 70 albums of various styles of music that has sold over one million copies independently.
He has worked with Tony Levin, Jerry Marotta, Tony Franklin, Ricky Peterson, Noah Levy, John Philip Shenale, Bebu Silvetti, Frankie Moreno.
Young has had over 25 million streams/downloads under various project names, written four books and three musicals with complete soundtracks. Making his start in the upstate NY club scene, from 1980-1982, David played the part of Angus in QT Hush,
The Tribute to AC/DC, led the band to become one of the biggest club/concert draws from Buffalo to Boston to Baltimore. Young’s version of “By The Time We Got To Woodstock” was used in the Woodstock Museum for the 40th anniversary, after a rights dispute between the Museum and CSNY.
After moving to LA in 1990, Young placed second in a 24 hour blues guitar competition of L.A’s best guitarists put on by Guitar Center (the winner represented by one of the judges).
In 1990, after he ran out of money, and was performing at Venice Beach playing his flutes wearing a puffy white, pirate shirt, Young inspired the writers of Seinfeld to create the “puffy shirt” episode.
Young played in a bluesy rock power trio in LA with Matt Abst (Govt Mule, Dickey Betts Band) and bass player Lou Castro (Albert Lee) in LA before Govt Mule took off and before David became known as the flute man.
Clifford Carter
New York based keyboardist Clifford Carter has performed and recorded in an eclectic range of musical styles including, blues, pop, rock, folk, gospel, and jazz.
On the blues side, Carter’s Hammond organ playing is featured on James Taylor’s legendary, Steamroller Blues, from the 1993 multi platinum classic, James Taylor Live.
He has performed, The Thrill Is Gone, with Rock and Roll Hall of Fame blues titan B.B King and Tracy Chapman on the David Letterman Show.
Clifford has worked with drummer musical/director, and producer Steve Jordan, performing at special events with Warren Haynes, Keith Richards, Dr. John and Bettye LaVette.
Recent gigs include performances with Chicago blues guitarist/ vocalist Ronnie Baker Brooks and recording for guitarist Robben Ford’s latest recording Common Ground (co-led by saxophonist Bill Evans). Carter co-wrote and produced the title song with Evans, featuring bassist Daryl Jones, (The Rolling Stones, Miles Davis, Sting) and drummer Keith Carlock, (Steely Dan).
Gregg Bissonette
One of the world’s premier drummers, Gregg is a four time winner of Best Drummer in Drummers World Magazine as well as having the honor to be Ringo Starr’s drummer in his All Starr Band since 2008.
Gregg recently won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Blues album for his playing on Edgar Winter’s, Brother Johnny.
An extraordinary, versatile drummer, Gregg has played with David Lee Roth, James Taylor, Santana (on his Grammy winning album Supernatural), Don Henley, Joe Satriani, and Andrea Bocelli.
Gregg has recorded music for numerous films: The Bucket List, Finding Nemo, Best in Show, The Bourne Supremacy, The Devil Wears Prada, The 40 Year Old Virgin, the TV show Friends and the Buddy Rich memorial concert.
Gregg has three solo albums, Gregg Bissonette, Submarine, Warning Will Robinson, and an award-winning two-disc DVD, Musical Drumming in Different Styles (Hudson Music), and recently recorded video lessons for Kennan Wylie’s Drumset Method books (Hal Leonard).
Sean Hurley
Since moving to L.A. from Massachusetts as a member of the band Vertical Horizon in 2000, Sean has made a name for himself as a top call bassist whose recording credits include John Mayer, Edgar Winter, Michael Buble, Robin Thicke, Idina Menzel, Alicia Keyes, Alanis Morissette, Annie Lennox, Ringo Star, and Lizzie McAlpine, as well as many film and TV scores.
Sean recently won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Blues album for Edgar Winter’s, Brother Johnny.
Sean has toured extensively with John Mayer, with blues harmonica player James Montgomery and numerous blues groups in Boston.
Sean has a signature bass made by Fender.