TOM LEAVEY
Bass (alternate)

Tom Leavey is a solid, long-time veteran musician who has been gigging since his high school days in New York in the late 1950's. Throughout the 60's Tom backed a wide variety of Rock & Roll and R&B acts up and down the East Coast before relocating to Los Angeles in the early 70's. There, Tom was an integral part of the flourishing rock scene while still keeping a hand in the blues doing gigs with legends such as Big Mama Thorton, Lightnin' Hopkins and Big Joe Turner. During a brief spell in Arizona in the 80's, Leavey managed to leave his mark by picking up the "Best Phoenix Blues Band" award for his band the Mojomatics, before returning to L.A. for gigs with Otis Rush, Frank Frost, Finis Tasby, Johnny Dyer and while also doing session work for the widely acclaimed comeback recordings by Billy Boy Arnold and King Ernest. In 2005, Tom secured his place in the highly praised and respected all-star band The Mannish Boys by appearing on their concert release "Live & In Demand," and more recently contributed his own composition "Mary Jane" when the band returned to the studio in 2007 to record "Big Plans."