BASS CULTURE...Leland Sklar


     The singer-songwriter movement of the Seventies called for backup musicians who could anchor ballads and midtempo rockers while never distracting from the singer or the song. Toward that goal, the likes of James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Carole King, David Crosby, and Graham Nash regularly rang up Leland Sklar. 
     Sklar’s understated, nonflashy but melodic bass can be heard on many Taylor classics (“You’ve Got a Friend,” “Handy Man,” “Your Smiling Face”) as well as on Browne’s “Doctor My Eyes” and all of Running on Empty, and Gene Clark’s cult classic No Other. In the Eighties, his bass became an integral part of Phil Collins’ records, heard on “Don’t Lose My Number,” among others, and Sklar even funked it up on the Weather Girls’ dance-club anthem “It’s Raining Men.” No wonder Crosby has called him “the best player in the world.”

JACKSON BROWNE

Running On Empty

Asylum,1977


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