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About the A Team
The A Team is:
- PAULE CRATON - Lead and backing vocals
- MARC HICKOX - Bass extraordinaire
- JOHN MONTERISI - Rhythm guitar, lead vocal on 10 and backing vocals
- “SLAMMIN’” PETER PARCEK – Lead and slide guitars , electric sitar
- SCOTT SHREVE - Drum Thunder and conga
- “SUPER DUPER” BOB COOPER – Keys on 3, 4, 6, and 7
- DAVID SPARR - Keys on 1,2,5,8,9 and 10
- THE TALISKER HORNS -
DON ANDERSON on trumpet and E.V.I.
JEFF GARMEL on tenor sax
- DUCKY CARLISLE - tambourine, backing vocals
- Special Guest: BRIAN TEMPLETON - lead and backing vocals on 4
Don plays trumpet and electric valve instrument in the local R&B-flavored band Hipsocket, together with Jeff on sax, Scott on drums, Bob on keys and John on guitar. Don also plays in a Latin jazz band called Jazz Marauders. Peter and Marc play in the international band The Singhs. Marc has also been garnering a lot of session work in Boston with the likes of Eddie Floyd and others, while Peter has won two Boston Blues Society competitions and was just recently named by Gibson Guitars as “one of the 10 guitar players you should be listening to.” The warm and wonderful voice of Paule Craton has been heard lately in several studio projects of original work and jazz standards. Ducky has recorded Susan Tedeschi and Nora Jones, while he tours internationally as a rock drummer. Brian is a new friend we met through Ducky; he sings and records with his band The Radio Kings.
Essentially, the band is a swat team of talented musicians who met through John and agreed to take three weekends away from their own groups and individual projects to come together and record at Ducky’s studio (unofficially “The Pond”). There were no rehearsals to speak of. We worked in groups of two or three over Talisker or tea, and developed our reading of the songs on our own. Recording was done with amazing efficiency, and always in just one or two “takes.”
The best things about The A Team experience are the freedom, the chill vibe, and the range of material that come from being a “studio band.” This record was tremendous fun to make; the result is a freshness you can hear.
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