Hey folks, it's Joe. Over the past several months, I've been working with my good friend Laura Veers to create a new podcast called Midnight Lightning, a show about how musicians parent.

This week, I'm sharing with you the very first episode of the show featuring Laura's interview with the legendary bassist Carol Kay.

Tune in next week as the trap set kicks off 2018's stellar lineup of drummers.

It's your breath, it's your heart, your soul.

When things are bad in your life, and they were bad, you know,

you turn to music and it gives you the outlet that you can express yourself in.

It actually gives you life.

It really does.

It makes you happy for a while.

This is Laura Veers, and I want to welcome you to Midnight Lightning,

where each week we discuss the

lives of working musicians who are also parents. Have a listen to this.

I love the colorful clothes you wear, and the way the sunlight plays upon her head. You're listening to Good Vibrations by the Beach Boys with my guest, Carol Kay on the bass

guitar.

You may not have heard her name, but you've certainly heard her play.

Carol was a member of a group of wonderful session musicians who played on many of the

hit records of the 60s and 70s. Carol recorded with Simon and Garfunkel, Sunny and Cher, Eich and Tina

Turner, Quincy Jones, Barbara Streisand, JJ Kale, and many, many more. Carol was born to musician

parents in Everett Washington in 1935.

She started playing guitar as a teenager, and when her family moved to California in the 50s,

she cut her teeth playing in the LA Bebop Jazz Clubs.

She accidentally became a studio musician when she was invited to record with Sam Cook in 1957.

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