At only age seventeen, Quinn Sullivan has already shared the stage with Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, Los Lobos, The Roots, Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi and Joe Bonamassa, and he opened for B.B. King, who later invited him to play his treasured Lucille guitar. He has performed on concert and festival dates throughout the United States including at storied venues like Hollywood Bowl, RFK Stadium and Madison Square Garden, travelled overseas, performing at both the Montreux Jazz Festival and India’s Mahindra Blues Festival and played several editions of the Experience Hendrix Tour, backed by Jimi’s original bassist Billy Cox. He’s also appeared on national TV, with guest appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Oprah, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Conan O’Brien and twice on The Ellen DeGeneres show.
His third studio album, Midnight Highway, was produced by multi GRAMMY winner Tom Hambridge – and will be released on March 24th in the UK/Europe. This album is yet another milestone in Quinn’s extraordinary journey, which began with appearing on Ellen when he was six, and being taken under the wing of blues legend Buddy Guy at age eight, whose protégé he remains to this day.
She Gets Me is a perfect showcase of Quinn’s exceptional song-writing talent as well as his outstanding guitar playing abilities. The maturity of the track is years ahead of the seventeen-year old and makes him an even more exciting prospect in the world of blues rock.
The album was recorded primarily at Nashville’s prestigious Blackbird Studio with some of the greatest players in Nashville, including many of the same musicians who played on the Buddy Guy albums that Hambridge produced. These include bassists Michael Rhodes and Tom Macdonald, guitarist Rob McNelley, and keyboard player Reese Wynans, a veteran of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Double Trouble. Hambridge notes, Quinn was anxious to make an album the way I make those Buddy Guy albums, and he did, in fact, tear it up. Quinn felt the mojo and he brought it in a big way.”
Tom Hambridge calls Quinn a sponge who soaks up everything that’s around him, adding, he’s listening all the time and he just so happens to be around great artists. Every time he plays, it’s a little deeper. Buddy Guy is, of course, his mentor, so he channels Buddy’s over-the-top reckless abandon. That’s completely understandable, as Buddy has, more than once, advised Quinn, Just go out there and show them why you’re here! Make them remember you.
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