b. Timothy Lee Drummond, 20 April 1940, Bloomington, Illinois, USA, d. 10 January 2015, St. Louis County, Missouri, USA. One of the leading session players in the music business, bass player Drummond began playing R&B and rock ’n’ roll when the air force put his father on a year’s transfer to Charleston, South Carolina. Returning to Illinois, he played guitar in a local band with ‘Wild Child Gibson’ of Little Richard fame, before turning his attention to the bass. Drummond toured with local attraction Eddie Cash & The Cashiers before playing with rockabilly singer Conway Twitty. When Twitty began to move into straight country, Drummond relocated to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he worked the clubs with Troy Seals, Lonnie Mack and Roger Troy (Electric Flag), and played sessions for Hank Ballard and James Brown. He joined Brown’s band, touring with great players such as Jimmy Nolen and Maceo Parker in North America, Vietnam, Korea and Africa, but eventually quit. Drummond then moved to Nashville, playing sessions for blues and R&B singers including Joe Simon, Margie Hendricks and Fenton Robinson, as well as country artists including Ronnie Mislap, Jimmy Buffett, Doug Kershaw and Charlie Daniels. A meeting with Neil Young resulted in Drummond playing on Young’s highly successful Harvest and touring as part of his Straygators backing group. Drummond moved to California, where he became an in-demand session player, working with a stellar list of artists including Young, Bob Dylan (Slow Train Coming, Saved, Shot Of Love), Ry Cooder (Bop Till You Drop, The Slide Area, Borderline), J.J. Cale (Naturally, Travel Log, Anyway The Wind Blows), Crosby, Stills And Nash (CSN), Graham Nash (Wild Tales), the Beach Boys (16 Big Ones), John Mayall, Rick Danko, Don Henley (Building The Perfect Beast) and Jewel (Pieces Of You). He also worked with blues legend Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup’s sons on the Franktown Blues project, and with Essra Mohawk as the KillerGrooveBand. Texan guitar company Jackson Guitars manufacture the Tim Drummond Signature ‘BlueCollar’ Bass Guitar. Drummond died on 10 January 2015 in St. Louis County, Missouri; he was 74 years old.