Session Musicians

Steve Lukather
Session Musicians | NO. 146

Steve Lukather

BY LARRY CRANE

Who is Steve Lukather? The guitarist, vocalist, and one of the songwriters of Toto. A session player with ridiculous credits, like Michael Jackson's Thriller, Lionel Richie, Boz Scaggs, Earth, Wind & Fire, and Olivia Newton-John. A songwriter for the likes of Chicago, The Tubes, Richard Marx, and George Benson. A member of Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band. I'd been listening to Toto quite a bit during the pandemic, and when a chance to interview Steve about his new – and life-changing – high fidelity hearing aid (Widex Moment) came about I was curious to see what he had to say about Toto, the session years, and more.

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Nate Smith
Session Musicians | NO. 143

Nate Smith

BY GEOFF STANFIELD

A drummer can make or break a session, and I have always loved getting their perspectives on the recording process as well as the variety of roles they play in the studio. After several solo records and appearances on records by Dave Holland, Brittan...

Matt Chamberlain
Session Musicians | NO. 125

Matt Chamberlain

BY GEOFF STANFIELD

Over the last 20 years Matt Chamberlain has contributed to a staggering variety of recordings including David Bowie, Tori Amos, Frank Ocean, Miranda Lambert, Bill Frisell, Brad Mehldau, Fiona Apple, and Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians, to name a fe...

Tony Maimone
Session Musicians | NO. 41

Tony Maimone

BY JOHN DYLAN KEITH

A consummate populist, Tony Maimone first caught my attention lecturing eloquently in defense of the women's-only swim time at the Metropolitan pool in Williamsburg to a grumbling bunch of men in the locker room, immediately after we had all been boo...

Buddy Miller
Session Musicians | NO. 34

Buddy Miller

BY MATT FORDHAM

Buddy Miller lives and records in an old bungalow on a shady street in Nashville, TN. In rooms lined with guitars and stacked floor to ceiling with recording gear, he makes some of the best music currently coming out of Nashville. Buddy and his wife,...

Tony Levin & Jerry Marotta
Session Musicians | NO. 33

Tony Levin & Jerry Marotta

BY LARRY DEVIVO

Tony Levin is one of the masters of bass guitar and the Chapman Stick, having played with King Crimson, Peter Gabriel [ Tape Op #143 ], James Taylor, California Guitar Trio, Paul Simon, John Lennon, Pink Floyd and many more. Jerry Marotta is a resp...

Jon Brion
Session Musicians | NO. 18

Jon Brion

BY LARRY CRANE

Jon Brion is well known as a session musician, record producer, solo artist and now, with the work he did for Magnolia, a scorer of films. In his world, all of this is equally important and interrelated. He's worked with artists such as Aimee Mann, F...