QUINN SULLIVAN

New album “Midnight Highway”

released March 24

Quinn Sullivan

 

“PLAYERS LIKE QUINN COME ALONG ONCE IN A LIFETIME.”  – BUDDY GUY

“QUINN SULLIVAN ……BLUES PRODIGY, IMPRESSES THE MASTERS” – ROLLING STONE

 

“INTERPRETING THE BLUES IN AN APPEALING MANNER IS NOT SO DIFFERENT THAN ATTEMPTING TO SPEAK A RECENTLY-LEARNED FOREIGN LANGUAGE…QUINN SULLIVAN HAS MASTERED THE VERNACULAR IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS.”– BILLY GIBBONS

 

“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

 

Quinn Sullivan has been a music professional for more than half of his young life. He’s shared the stage with Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, Los Lobos, The Roots, Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi and Joe Bonamassa, and he opened for B.B. King, who later invited him to play his treasured “Lucille” guitar.

He has performed on concert and festival dates throughout the United States – including storied venues such as The Hollywood Bowl, RFK Stadium and Madison Square Garden – travelled overseas – performing at both the Montreux Jazz Festival and India’s Mahindra Blues Festival – and played several editions of the Experience Hendrix Tour, backed by Jimi’s original bassist Billy Cox.

Quinn has also appeared on national TV, with guest appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Oprah, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Conan and twice on The Ellen DeGeneres show.  Yes, Sullivan has packed some extraordinary experience into his decade-long career, and that’s even more remarkable when you consider that he’s still only 17.

His third studio album, Midnight Highway, was produced by multi GRAMMY® winner Tom Hambridge – who also does double duty as Quinn’s studio and road drummer – and will be released on March 24th, 2017 (Mascot Label Group/Provogue). The album is yet another milestone in Quinn’s extraordinary journey, which began with him jamming with the kids music combo Toe Jam Puppet Band at age three, appearing on Ellen when he was six, and being taken under the wing of blues legend Buddy Guy at age eight, whose protégé he remains to this day.

Midnight Highway was recorded primarily at Nashville’s prestigious Blackbird Studio with some of the greatest players in Nashville, including many of the same musicians who played on the Buddy Guy albums that Hambridge produced. These include bassists Michael Rhodes and Tom Macdonald, guitarist Rob McNelley, and keyboard player Reese Wynans, a veteran of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Double Trouble.

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, “Just go out there and show them why you’re here… make them remember you.”

Off stage, Quinn is well aware of the unique opportunity he’s been afforded and is very focused on music as an ongoing pursuit. He contrasts his experience with many of his contemporaries’ – “They’re struggling to come up with what they’re going to do when they’re out of school, but I’ve decided this is what I’m going to be doing for the rest of my life.”

 

Click the above to hear the title track from the album.

 

Midnight Highway is a song that takes you on a journey from start to finish. The song was written and produced by the great Tom Hambridge and the idea of the song fits perfectly into what my life is like at the moment. I immediately fell in love with the song because I related to the message that it sends out, which is the fact that no matter what, you have to keep moving and growing on whatever path you choose to take. – Quinn Sullivan.

 

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