Artist: QUINN SULLIVAN
Album: MIDNIGHT HIGHWAY LTD. EDIT. (DIGI)

Release date: 2017
EAN/UPS: 819873014355
Media type: CD

·         17-year old Quinn Sullivan is the protégé of the legendary Buddy Guy. “Players like him come along once in a lifetime”, said Buddy Guy to Rolling Stone magazine.
·         Is actively touring in the Buddy Guy band and shared stages with Eric Clapton, Los Lobos, The Roots, Foo Fighters, and Derek Trucks. He also played with B.B. King and on his treasured “Lucille” guitar.
·         Performed on TV shows Ellen (twice), The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Oprah, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The Oprah Winfrey Show and CBS News.
·         Special guest in the Buddy Guy Band at 2016 festivals like Montreux, North Sea Jazz, Jazz a Vienne, etc.
·         He has played during several editions of the Experience Hendrix Tour, backed by Billy Cox, Jimi’s original bassist.
·         “Quinn Sullivan may also be the most gifted guitar prodigy on the planet, a blues player of jaw-dropping virtuosity and depth who could turn out to be the Clapton of his generation.”-  The Washington Post!


Yes, Quinn Sullivan has packed a lot of extraordinary experience into the span of his decade-long career and that’s even more remarkable when you consider that he only turned 17 this spring.  Midnight Highway, produced by multiple GRAMMY® winner Tom Hambridge who also does double duty as Quinn’s studio and road drummer.  The album is yet another milestone in a pursuit that has seen Quinn jamming with kids music combo Toe Jam Puppet Band at the age of three, appearing on network television (Ellen, performing a Beatles-inspired version of “Twist and Shout”) when he was six and, at eight, being taken under the wing of blues legend Buddy Guy whose protégé he remains to this day.

The album was recorded primarily at Nashville’s prestigious Blackbird Studio with Quinn’s backing band including many of the same players who have recorded on the Buddy Guy albums that Hambridge has produced. These include bassist Michael Rhodes, guitarist Rob McNelley as well as Reese Wynans on keyboards, the latter a veteran of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Double Trouble.  Producer/drummer Hambridge notes, “Quinn was anxious to make an album the way I make those Buddy Guy albums and he did, in fact, tear it up.  Quinn felt the mojo and he ‘brought it’ in a big way.”

Tom Hambridge calls Quinn “a sponge who soaks up everything that’s around him,” adding, “he’s listening all the time and he just so happens to be around great artists.  Every time he plays it’s a little deeper. Buddy Guy is, of course, his mentor so he channels Buddy’s over-the-top reckless abandon.” That’s completely understandable as Buddy has, more than once, advised Quinn, “Go for it; make them remember you.”

His hope is “to make a splash” with Midnight Highway.  “This one I really want to be taken seriously,” says the very poised and purposeful young musician.  That’s our intention as well.



TRACKLIST CD:

1    Something For Me
2    Tell Me I'm Not Dreaming
3    Midnight Highway
4    Crazy Into You
5    Eyes For You
6    Lifting Off
7    She Gets Me
8    Rocks (bonus track)
9    Going
10    Graveyard Stone (bonus track)
11    Big Sky (bonus track)
12    While My Guitar Gently Weeps
13    Buffalo Nickel