A Face In The Crowd (feat. Lyle Workman)

#139 in the Need To Know Badass Blues Instrumental Series, A Face In The Crowd, features the freakishly talented musician, Lyle Workman. A Bay Area native and long-time Angelino, Lyle is a highly respected and sought after composer and player. I had the pleasure of jamming with Lyle twenty-five years ago with Tubes drummer Prairie Prince and although I didn't know Lyle by reputation, he had already been in Bourgeois Tagg and had played on two Todd Rundgren albums, it was quite apparent that this guy was not your average rock and roll singer/guitarist. His compositions were intelligent and challenging and his playing was hyper stylized. Fast forward to 2021 and the magic of the interweb and here we have Lyle doing his thing on my thing. I was really impressed with Lyle's enthusiasm for the project and also his humility, he generously suggested other players that he was excited about for the series. Not necessarily what you'd expect from a cat whose discography contains collaborations with Frank Black, Sheryl Crow, Shakira, Bryan Adams, Sarah McLachlan, Sara Bareilles, Norah Jones & Michael Bublé as well as composing music for films such as; Superbad, The 40-Year-Old Virgin & Forgetting Sarah Marshall and tours with Sting & Beck. I hope your neighbors enjoy this as much as you do when you crank the shit out of it...you really have to!

The backing band on this track is my Bay Area comrade, Scott Amendola, (Nels Cline, Charlie Hunter) bangin' on the drums and myself on rhythm guitar and bass. Drums were tracked at Scott's house, bass & rhythm guitar at NTA in San Bruno, and guitars at Lyle's studio in LA. Mellifluously mixed and mastered by the infamous F-Bomb.