Featured Artists
GE Smith
GE Smith was the lead guitarist for the duo Hall & Oates during the band's heyday from 1979 to 1985. He then served as the musical director of the sketch-comedy show Saturday Night Live from 1985 to 1995, where he was the leader of the Saturday Night Live Band.[1]
His own albums include In The World (1981), Get A Little (with the Saturday Night Live Band, 1993) and Incense, Herbs and Oils (1998). Smith was the lead guitarist for the band Moonalice from 2007 to 2009.
Smith has performed and recorded with many artists, including Hall & Oates, Tina Turner, and David Bowie. He played guitar in Roger Waters' The Wall Live tour and was lead guitarist in Bob Dylan's touring band 1988 to 1990. Smith also served as musical director of Dylan's The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration at Madison Square Garden on October 16, 1992.
Larry Campbell
Larry Campbell is an American multi-instrumentalist, who plays many stringed instruments (including guitar, mandolin, pedal steel guitar, slide guitar, and violin) in genres including country, folk, blues, and rock. He is perhaps most widely known for his time as part of Bob Dylan's Never Ending Tour band from 1997 to 2004. Campbell also has extensive experience as a studio musician. Over the past years, Larry has recorded with such artists as Levon Helm, Judy Collins, Lucy Kaplansky, Richard Shindell, Linda Thompson, Sheryl Crow, Chris Castle, Paul Simon, B. B. King, Willie Nelson, Eric Andersen, Buddy and Julie Miller, Kinky Friedman, Little Feat, Hot Tuna, Cyndi Lauper, k.d. lang, Anastasia Barzee, Rosanne Cash and Ayọ, among others.
Larry is featured in a ten part documentary It Was The Music, a film chronicling the lives and love of musicians Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams, premiered on Sunday, December 13. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Mark Moskowitz, It Was the Music serves as both a musical odyssey and deeply personal love story of Campbell and Williams in search of their “music utopia.”
Lincoln Schleifer
Lincoln Schleifer’s bass lines have graced the stage along with the likes of Warren Haynes, Hot Tuna, Steely Dan, Levon Helm, GE Smith, Larry Campbell, Rosanne Cash and the list goes on. Lincoln is also a top producer and sought after session bass player. We are most fortunate to have Lincoln produce all of our songs!!
Josh Dion
After a stint in the music program at New Jersey's William Paterson University, Josh has made New York City his home. Josh's college days were greeted by an immersion in the Jam band scene with NYC funk band ulu, who toured the Eastern half of the US. Josh was soon noticed by jazz guitarist Chuck Loeb, who offered Josh an opportunity to be seen and heard by a whole new level of the music audience. From that platform, he has gone on to work with some of the major brand names of the music world: Candy Dulfer, Spyro Gyra, Will Lee, Pat Martino, Jeff Kashiwa, Jason Miles, Anthony Jackson, Edgar Winter, Randy Brecker, Bob James, Eric Marienthal, Til Bronner, Jim Beard, Ivan Lins and on and on.
Danny Louis
Quote “ Danny Louis has carved a career as one of rock music's premier keyboard, piano and horn players. And he has shared his talents with audiences across the country and around the world, while performing on stage with such rock and roll luminaries as The Kinks, Gregg Allman, Joe Cocker, Levon Helm, Phil Lesh and Eric Clapton
Denny McDermott
Denny is a highly sought after session drummer in NYC and has played with the likes of Rosanne Cash, Kinky Friedman, Donald Fagen of Steely Dan, David Johanson, and Steve Forbert.
Joel Diamond
A highly sought session pianist, Diamond has worked with such artists as Mick Taylor, Graham Parker and Jane Oliver. The producer of the soundtrack albums for Welcome To The Dollhouse and David Mamet's Oleanna, Diamond has been a staff producer for Chesky since 1998, overseeing albums by Rebecca Paris, Livingston Taylor and Sarah K.