Bo Menart – lead and harmony vocals, acoustic guitars, harmonica, mandolin
Anastasios Toss Panos - drums
Larry Antonino – string bass
Eddie Baytos – accordion, fratois, tambourine
Lisa Haley – fiddle, harmony vocal
Michelle Higgs – harmony vocal

Out of the Woodshed

House of the Rising Sun (Amazing Grace)

House Of The Rising Sun (Amazing Grace)

Words and Music by David Bowie, Essex Music, Inc. ASCAP

Bo Menart – lead and harmony vocals, tambourine, synth, producer
Darren Elpant – drums
Larry Antonino – bass guitar and harmony vocals
Craig T Fall – piano, guitars, orchestration, co-producer

THE TRANE MOB

WHEN i LIVE MY DREAM

WHEN I LIVE MY DREAM

Words and Music by Bo Menart, Men Art Music ASCAP

Bo Menart – lead & harmony vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, producer
Darren Elpant – drums and percussion
Larry Antonino – bass guitar and harmony vocals
Arlan Oscar Schierbaum – vibraphone and Hammond organ

THE RIVERS OF MY LIFE

Words and Music by Bo Menart, Men Art Music ASCAP

Bo Menart – lead & harmony vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, producer
Darren Elpant – drums and percussion
Taras Prodaniuk – bass guitar
Craig T Fall – piano, organ and electric guitars
Larry Antonino – harmony vocals

THE ROCK AND THE ROSE

Words and Music by Bo Menart, Men Art Music ASCAP

Bo Menart – lead & harmony vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, producer
Stacey Lamont Sydnor – drums and percussion
Larry Antonino – bass guitar and harmony vocals
Arlan Oscar Schierbaum – electric piano and synthesizer
Nick Kirgo – electric guitar

LOVE FOREVER CHANGES

Words and Music by Bo Menart, Men Art Music ASCAP

Bo Menart – lead vocal, electric and acoustic guitars, producer
Darren Elpant – drums and percussion
Larry Antonino – bass guitar and harmony vocals
Craig T Fall – piano, organ and acoustic guitars, co-producer
Arlan Oscar Schierbaum – pedal steel guitar

I CAN'T DREAM ABOUT YOU

Words and Music by George Harrison, Sony/ATV Tunes LLC ASCAP

Bo Menart – lead & harmony vocals, electric & acoustic guitars, producer
Stacey Lamont Sydnor – drums
Larry Antonino – bass guitar and harmony vocals
Craig T Fall – electric 12 string guitars and electric piano, co-producer
Arlan Oscar Schierbaum – Hammond organ and mini-moog
Kathleen Daugherty – harmony vocal
Darren Elpant – percussion

IF I NEEDED SOMEONE

Words and Music by Bo Menart, Men Art Music ASCAP

Bo Menart – lead vocal, electric guitar and bass guitar, producer
Darren Elpant – drums
Nick Kirgo – electric guitar
Pam Loe, Chad Watson and David Coleman – harmony vocals

CHILD OF GOD

Words and Music by Jeb Lipson, Bigscarytree Music BMI

Bo Menart – lead & harmony vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, producer
Darren Elpant – drums and percussion
Chad Watson – bass guitar and harmony vocal
Craig T Fall – electric 12 string guitars, slide guitar and piano, co-producer
Pam Loe and Larry Antonino – harmony vocals

POCKET KNIFE

Words and Music by Bo Menart, Men Art Music ASCAP

Bo Menart – lead vocal and acoustic 12 string guitars, producer
Darren Elpant – drums and percussion
Larry Antonino – bass guitar
Craig T Fall – slide guitar, electric guitars, electric piano, organ, co-producer

I'LL CATCH YOU IF I CAN

Words and Music by David Beaudry, Universal Music-MGB Songs/Preston Sullivan Music ASCAP  

Bo Menart – lead vocal and electric guitars, producer
Darren Elpant  - drums and percussion
Chad Watson – bass guitar
Craig T Fall – electric and acoustic guitars, piano, organ, co-producer
Pam Loe and Larry Antonino – harmony vocals

SHE'S A YOUNG GIRL NOW

SHE' A YOUNG GIRL NOW

Words and Music by Bo Menart, Men Art Music ASCAP

Bo Menart – lead vocal, bass guitar and electric guitar, producer
Darren Elpant – drums
Craig T Fall – electric guitar and organ, co-producer
Nick Kirgo – electric guitar

LOVE ADDICTION

Instrumental Remixes of songs from my album "Out Of The Woodshed". MIX OUT 1 highlights Country, Bluegrass, Ragtime and other American Roots music.
Ideal for Film and TV soundtracks.

Mix Out 1

DANCING WITH A ROSE Guitars Pedal Steel

Instrumental Remixes of songs from my album "Out Of The Woodshed". MIX OUT 2 highlights Mellow Arrangement with Country and Pop moods.
Ideal for Film and TV soundtracks.

Mix Out 2

SHE LOVES YOU Ac Gtrs Bass Drums Perc

SHE LOVES YOU Strings Oboe

CHAPEL BELLS Piano Ac Gtrs Strings

SHE CRIES Ac Gtr Pedal Steel

PARADISE Vox Pedal Steel Tambourine

Instrumental Remixes of songs from my album "Out Of The Woodshed". MIX OUT 3 highlights Reggae, Rock and R&B grooves.
Ideal for Film and TV soundtracks.

Mix Out 3

I'M GOIN' UP Harmonica Ac Gtrs

BORN IN BABYLON Bass + Drums

Instrumental Remixes of songs from my album "Out Of The Woodshed". MIX OUT 1 highlights Country, Bluegrass, Ragtime and other American Roots music.

06 DID YOU EVER Rhythm Section

01 6 PACK 2 GO Cajun Track

36 CHAPEL BELLS Full Band

08 PARADISE Electric Guitars

06 PARADISE Vox Pedal Steel Tambourine

14 GONNA FLY AWAY Guitars

10 RESPECT Drums Percussion

09 RESPECT Organ Percussion

08 RESPECT Bass + Drums

07 RESPECT Ac Gtrs Bass Percussion

06 BORN IN BABYLON Full Band

05 BORN IN BABYLON Guitars

04 BORN IN BABYLON Percussion Horns

03 BORN IN BABYLON Guitars Percussion

02 BORN IN BABYLON Bass + Drums

01 BORN IN BABYLON Keyboards Percussion

Bo Menart’s "The Trane Mob", the follow-up to the Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter-guitarist’s 2018 debut "Out of the Woodshed", and is like its predecessor, a stirring, smartly penned, and crisply played serving of roots-based rock. Produced by Menart (with one number, the album-closing version of David Bowie’s “When I Live My Dream,” co-produced by multi-instrumentalist and arranger Craig T Fall), the set comprises a dozen tracks: seven Menart originals, one co-written with former band mate Fred Guerra, and four covers.

The featured players include three veterans of the previous album: bassist-vocalist Larry Antonino (Jeff Beck, Ronnie Laws, Al Jarreau, Pablo Cruise), keyboardist Arlan Schierbaum (Joe Bonamassa, the Pointer Sisters, Mandrill) and drummer Stacey Lamont Sydnor (the Jacksons, Mandrill). Also lending their talents are such top-flight L.A.-area musicians as Fall (Stevie Wonder, the Beach Boys,  Glen Campbell), drummer Darren Elpant (Peter Tork), guitarist Nick Kirgo (Julee Cruise, David Lynch, Les McCann, JD Souther), bassist Taras Prodaniuk (Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Dwight Yoakam, Lucinda Williams, Richard Thompson), bassist Chad Watson (Charlie Rich, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Freddy Fender), and Chad’s wife, vocalist Pam Loe.

Cleveland-born Menart sports weighty credentials of his own. He played in the groups Amigo and Kadara. As an engineer, he worked with a who’s who list of artists and producers, including producer Phil Spector (on the Ramones’s End of the Century and sessions with Celine Dion), and the soundtrack for the cult classic The Warriors. In the 90’s, he served as the head of the independent record label Terra Nova Records. In 2005, after a lifetime of helping other artists, he decided to focus on his own music-making activities. With the release of Out of the Woodshed in 2018, following nearly a decade of work (hence the record’s title), Menart quickly made plans for another album. He envisioned the formation of a working group, and he even picked out a handle for it: “Michelle Higgs, who sang and played piano on my first album, suggested I call my band The Trane Mob. She said, ‘It’s your name, backwards.’ And, of course, being a John Coltrane fan, I thought that was cool too. My original intention was to put together a band, rehearse the songs, and then go into the studio and record it pretty much live, the basic tracks at least. But it didn’t work out that way.”
He began work in 2019 with Fall, whose FaceBook videos of his 12-string work led him to seek out the guitarist. He didn’t have to look far: “Craig lives within walking distance from me,” he says. The two musicians laid down tracks for a cover of George Harrison’s ringing Byrds-inspired number “If I Needed Someone” and the Menart original “Love Addiction.” 
“Then when the COVID-19 pandemic hit,” Bo recalls, “it was like, ‘Whoa! We can’t get the band together!” I did a couple of songs with Darren Elpant at his studio. Then I just started laying down guitars and vocals with a click track and he’d do the drums, and we’d build everything around that. And it worked out.”

Like many other musicians forced to contend with the restrictions the COVID lockdown placed on studio projects, Menart responded by employing remote recording. “Everybody has a studio,” he says, who records in his Sunland home. “We’d all been doing it before, so it just became part of the process. Arlan, the keyboard player, lives in Greece. It’s no different than if he was still living in North Hollywood - I just sent him the tracks, and he recorded his parts and sent it back.”

The situation produced some remarkable results, he says: “In some ways it actually worked out better for me because I could make sure that everything was done exactly the way I wanted to hear it. For instance, on the song ‘Back in My Heart,’ I thought it was amazing that it could sound that tight, and those people never met each other.”

Two of the album’s originals were inspired by dreams. “I’ll Catch You If I Can” sprouted from one in which Bo heard Linda Ronstadt singing a chorus from a song it turned out he had imagined. Likewise, “The Rivers of My Life” was spawned by a nocturnal vision of himself producing a Walker Brothers-like group at Capitol Records in the early ‘60s; he awoke and finished the song in 45 minutes. He remembers, “It was like taking dictation. I had no idea what it meant until months later.” 
“Back in My Heart” was a collaboration with Fred Guerra, Menart’s former songwriting partner in the band Amigo, which originally recorded the song in a slower arrangement in 1984.
“Love Forever Changes” is Bo’s musical tribute to the classic 1967 album Forever Changes by the L.A. group Love.

Besides the Beatles tune, the covers on The Trane Mob include “She’s a Young Girl Now,” by Menart’s late friend David Beaudry, and “Pocket Knife,” by his Sunland neighbor Jeb Lipson. The album concludes with “When I Live My Dream,” which originally appeared on David Bowie’s 1967 debut album. “I’d always thought, ‘I’m going to go into Capitol Studios with a 30-piece orchestra and a really good arranger, and cut it like that,’” Menart says. “I realized that’s not going to happen. Craig had played me some stuff that he’d worked on, orchestral pieces for shows, and I thought, ‘Oh, this guy can do this.’ That was really a revelation, because it turned out exactly the way I wanted it.”

With The Trane Mob (the album) wrapped, Bo Menart is ramping up to take The Trane Mob (the band) to the stage. “We’ll be hitting the clubs soon, and hopefully concert venues by the end of 2024.”

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