I guess you could consider Little Feat keyboardist Bill Payne a honorary Coral Reefer. He's never extensively toured with Buffett but he does appear on License To Chill and did put in an appearance (along with fellow License To Chill session man and past Buffett collaborator Sonny Landreth) on the i]License To Chill[/i] tour. Anyway, I thought some would be interested to know that Bill is about to release his first solo album. Here's more on it from the Miles of Music web site:
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Bill Payne - Cielo Norte (DUE 02.22.05)
Having founded Little Feat with the late, great Lowell George, Bill Payne has been piloting the band from behind his keyboards since the beginning. He's also contributed to hundreds of records as a sideman. But there's another side to this veteran musician that is quite distinct from the gritty, soulful rock & roll for which he's best known, showcased for the first time in this collection of all-instrumental solo pieces. A marriage of improvisation and composition, the album is by turns vividly panoramic, warmly lyrical and stylistically adventurous as Payne moves between his bank of synths and acoustic piano. Cielo Norte had its genesis in 1992 when Payne, during his rare breaks from touring with Little Feat, began spontaneously documenting the musical ideas constantly swirling in his head on his mobile studio. (Hot Tomato)
Bill Payne (Little Feat) Solo Record
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