By Steve Newton
Tommy Shannon is perhaps best known as the bassist for Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, but dedicated blues-guitar freaks will also know him as the guy who brought the bottom end on Johnny Winter’s first three albums.
I interviewed Shannon back in 1998 when he was in the band Storyville, and headed to Vancouver for a gig with Dr. John, the Neville Brothers, and headliner B.B. King.
At one point in the conversation I asked Shannon if there were one person that he most wished he could have jammed with that he hadn’t yet.
Have a listen:
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