Special Songdogs
Wayne P. Sheehy ~ Bertram Engel ~ Robert Palmer (†) ~ Ronnie Wood ~ Ian 'Mac' McLagan
Levon Helm & Garth Hudson ~ Jon Smith & Steve Howard ~ Sonny Landreth
Wayne P. Sheehy
Wayne (born 1960) began his musical career in the year 1984 as he entered the successfull Irish Indieband "Cactus World News". He stayed with this band until 1989 and they had one Top-40-Hit in Great Britain and the success of over 160,000 sold albums in the USA. In 1989 to 1991 Wayne played in the Irish band "Hinterland" before he worked for Ron Wood as live-musician and in the studio. During this time he also played for Bo Diddley, Bobby Womack and "Andrew Strong Commitments" on their albums.
1995 to 1998 he worked intensively with the "Hothouse Flowers". During this time Wayne's own band - named "The Sofa" - developed.
The albums and the live-gigs of Damian Dempsey, Juliet Turner (tour in summer 2004), Donovan and "The Chieftains" had his sign as drummer as well as working for the Irish singer Paul McGann and he composed several film-songs in L.A.
Wayne has been in the Songdogs since springtime 2003 and he played the drums at the promotion-tour along with the gigs in August/September 2003 and in February 2004 as substitute for Bertram Engel (who played for Udo Lindenberg at this time). But Wayne is not only a "substitute-drummer", he has his own personality and is accepted as a true Songdog.
If you're interested here you can download the original biography - written by Wayne - as a pdf-file.
More about Wayne on his Myspace-Site: www.myspace.com/waynesheehy
Bertram Engel
was born on 27th of November, 1957 in Westfalia as Bertram Passmann. He began to play piano at the age of seven, but soon he was more interested in playing the drums. His first success he had in common with his brother Thomas as "Gebrueder Engel".
Betram is well-known as a "Panicer" of the band from Udo Lindenberg, and you can't think of Peter Maffay without Bertram as his drummer, he is one of the most popular drummers in Germany.
Through his friend Carl, with whom he understands himself in music as well as privately, he has also been a member of the Songdogs from beginning.
More about Bertram on the website: www.bertram-engel-production.de
Robert Palmer
Robert (* 1949 - † 2003) was the "great-father" of the Songdogs. Without his persuasive power this great band would not exist.
Robert, an ingenious autodidact, was always looking for hidden and unspent musical attractions of other culture areas. Robert's last Album "Drive" is the inheritance of us all.
Lucky and love, understand & respect originate from his feather. And he also supported his friend Carl with his voice.
More informations about Robert on: www.robertpalmer.com
Ronnie Wood
played for "The Faces" and with the "Rolling Stones".
Ron carries a medaillon, in which the following words are engraved:
Dear God, give me compsure to accept matters I can not change. And give me the strength and courage to change what can be changed and the wisdom to tell the difference!
More about Ronnie at: www.ronniewood.com
Ian "Mac" McLagan
Mac attracted attention first as keyboarder for "The Small Faces", which later became "The Faces". There he played together with Ron Wood. In his career as musician he played for Bob Dylan, Thin Lizzy, Bonnie Raitt and he was involved in productions for "Rolling Stones" and Bruce Springsteen. Today he is on stage with his own band named "Bump Band".
He also played with the Songdogs on both CDs.
More about Ian Mac you find on: www.macspages.com
Levon Helm & Garth Hudson
"The Band" - this name says everything - unforgettable music history! Levon (drums) participated on both albums of the Songdogs and Garth played the keys on the first album.
More information about them: http://theband.hiof.no
Jon Smith & Steve Howard
These gifted musicians are not only on stage with Peter Maffay, but have also supported the Songdogs since the first album energetically with the saxophone (Jon) and the trumpet (Steve).
If you want to know more about these musicians "The Legendary White Trash Horns" just look on the website: http://home.flash.net/~showard1/
Sonny Landreth
The "Slide-guitar-god" contributed with his playing considerably to the sound of the two Songdog albums. Sonny played for John Hiatt, John Mayall and was also involved at the project "Begegnungen" of Peter Maffay. More about Sonny you can read here: www.sonnylandreth.com
Charlene Howard & Shannon McNally
"The Queens of Attitude" supported both albums of the Songdogs with backing vocals.
Max & Jessica Buskohl
Carls children from his first marriage, supported the CD "Revolution Avenue" with their vocals..
Richard Comeaux
So far an unknown master of the pedal-steel-guitar from Louisiana - played with "River Road" and with the Lousiana Rock'n'Roll Band "Lil' Band O'Gold". He supported the Songdogs on the album "Love & Respect".
Xavier Naidoo
Mannheim has to offer more than still "the sons" - the exception singer Xavier. He supported the Songdogs with his vocals on the song "Love, Understanding & Respect". More about Xavier on his website: www.xaviernaidoo.de
Nadeen Holloway
this soul-singer is well known as "bee queen" from the musical "Tabaluga" from Peter Maffay. After her study (singing, dancing) she had commitments in New York and Connecticut and went to Europe in the year 1985. There she was on tour with Maffay, Lindenberg, Ochsenknecht and Carpendale. With her solo-project she entered the charts in Austria with a number-one-hit in the 1992/1993. Nadeen became a Songdog in the year 2004 - she gave the song "Instant Karma" (studio-version) of the new Live-CD a special touch with her voice.
Note:
Becoming well informed (by poring over rock-encyclopaedias, searching on the internet etc) of these musicians, it is now noticeable for the first time of how often the musicians named above paths have crossed throughout their careers.
