Tommy Crain & the Crosstown Allstars: General Info
Member Since
12/12/2006
Band Members
Tommy Crain & the Crosstown Allstars @ LiveWire Music Hall in Savannah, GA
Tommy Crain - Guitar/Vocals
Bob Rumer - Guitar/Lead Vocals
Towson Engsberg - Drums
Kerry Creasy - Bass/Vocals
Influences
These are friends of ours, influences, or bands we like (in no particular order):
The Charlie Daniels Band, The Allman Brothers Band, Billy Crain, John Lee Hooker, Eric Clapton, Little Feat, Ry Cooder, Otis Redding, Aquarium Rescue Unit, Oteil Burbridge, Roy Buchanan, Johnny Cash, B.B. King, Freddie King, Albert King, Jimmy Herring, The Marshall Tucker Band, The Loft, moe., Mother's Finest, Lucinda Williams, Blues Traveler, Old Union, Derek Trucks Band, Warren Haynes, Matt Abts, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, Goose Creek Symphony, Susan Tedeschi, The Subdudes, Tishamingo, Dickey Betts, Gregg Allman, Duane Allman, Berry Oakley, George McCorkle, Umphrey's McGee, "Dangerous" Dan Toler, String Cheese Incident, Widespread Panic, The Band, Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Robbie Robertson, Garth Hudson, James Brown, Sly Stone, Bonnie Raitt, Buddy Guy, John Hiatt, The Winters Brothers Band, Elvin Bishop, Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Col. Bruce Hampton, ZZ Top, Lowell George, Jeff Sipe, Jack Pearson, Jerry Garcia, The Grateful Dead, Phish, Trey Anastasio, Gov't Mule, The Meters, Michael Buffalo Smith, Taz Digregorio, Delaney and Bonnie, Bonnie Bramlett, Carlos Santana, Al Kooper, Michael Bloomfield, Muddy Waters, Johnny Winter, David Lindley, Sonny Landreth, George Harrison, Jimi Hendrix, Keith Richards, Chuck Berry, The Neville Brothers, Leslie West, John Fogerty, Dr. Hector & the Groove Injectors, John Mayall, Albert Collins, Robert Nighthawk, Ray Charles, Leon Russell, America, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Outlaws, Molly Hatchet, Rossington Colllins Band, Blackfoot, The Henry Paul Band, Dobie Gray, Dr. Hook, Dr. John, Ted Nugent, Grinderswitch, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Kim Wilson, Robert Randolph
Winters Brothers Summer Jam 2007 - Nolensville, TN (l-r) "Wheaty" Wiedemeier, Bob Rumer, Dennis Winters, Mike Causey, Darren Brothers, Tommy Crain
Backstage at the Winters Brothers Summer Jam - June 2007 (l-r) Kerry Creasy, Bob Rumer, Markus Rodriguez (Corazon),
Tommy Crain, Mike Causey (Stillwater), Michael Buffalo Smith, Eddie Stone (Doc Holiday)
Cody McCarver joined onstage by Tommy Crain
at Thunder on the Rock - Monteagle, TN
Sounds Like
Buy our CD Give It To Ya' at CD Baby and Hittin' the Note!
Tommy Crain, from Franklin, Tennessee, is best known for his two decades of work with the Charlie Daniels Band. A pioneer of Southern Rock, he wrote songs and performed on over 20 CDB albums, winning a Grammy for The Devil Went Down To Georgia. You will undoubtedly recognize his fiery guitar work and blue-hot slide playing!
Crain's newest musical venture incorporates heart-felt blues, funky rock, and R&B. In 2004 he hooked up with Atlanta-based blues band, The Crosstown Allstars, and the Southern rockin' blues were born! Tommy Crain & the Crosstown Allstars features Crain on guitar, slide, and vocals, Bob Rumer on guitar, slide, and lead vocals, Kerry Creasy on bass and vocals, and Towson Engsberg on drums.
The band's current cd is an original project titled Give It To Ya and is available through CD Baby and Hittin' the Note. Tommy Crain & the Crosstown Allstars are currently at work on their second album.
Tommy backstage circa 1979 (photo courtesy of Steve Caraway)
Tampa Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Ballroom - Angelus 2006 Event Charlie Daniels performs with Tommy Crain & the Crosstown Allstars
Click on the Charliepalooza & Angelus image links above for more information. (Within the Angelus site: on left, click on Charlie Daniels Golf / Event Details / Schedule of Events.)
Tommy and "The Boss" 1976 (photo courtesy of Steve Caraway)
Tommy Crain - Guitar/Vocals
Towson Engsberg - Drums
Kerry Creasy - Bass/Vocals
