Jimmy Vivino

Jimmy V has always considered himself “a blues man with a job”. Although best known for serving 26 years as Conan O’Brien’s musical director, guitarist and bandleader, his experience in the music business predates that by 20 plus years.

Jimmy V has produced, lead bands and recorded with a countless number rock and roll and blues artists for five decades including the likes of Hubert Sumlin, Warren Haynes, Bob Weir, Keith Richards, Elvis Costello, Johnnie Johnson, Son Seals, Shemekia Copeland, Levon Helm, Phoebe Snow, Dion, Laura Nyro, Bob Margolin, Lowell Fulson, John Sebastian, Joe Louis Walker and Al Kooper to name a few. When not producing, recording or touring with other artists, Jimmy still tours the country and the world with his own band and is due to release a new blues album later on this year (2022).

A musician all his life, Jimmy also devotes his time to organizations that are close to his heart and helping to promote causes such as The Blues Foundation, Songs of Love to help terminally ill children, and God’s Love We Deliver charity to feed the Hungry to name a few.

Mike Merritt

Mike Merritt’s career as a bassist includes 25 years playing in the house band on all of  Conan O’ Brien’s TV  talk shows, starting in New York with “ Late Night” then moving to Los Angeles for “The Tonight Show” and TBS’s  “Conan”. This gave Mike opportunities to perform with many guest artists over the years, including Cheryl Crow, Bonnie Raitt, The Staple Singers, B.B. King, Slash, Tony Bennett, Steve Miller, Isaac Hayes, Chet Atkins, Pete Townshend, Robert Palmer, Bruce Springsteen and scores of others. Mike still performs on occasional live concert versions of Conan’s wildly popular podcast, “Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend”.

Mark Teixeira

American drummer Mark Teixeira is a member of guitarist Duke Robillard’s band, a good place to hear Teixeira’s work is on Robillard’s Duke Robillard and His Dames of Rhythm album that features a host of female vocalists like Maria Muldaur, Madeleine Peyroux and Elizabeth McGovern. East Coast-based Mark Teixeira has recorded and performed with a host of Blues and American music greats. Including playing on couple of Grammy nominated albums as a member of The Duke Robillard Band.

A partial list includes Al Kooper’s Funky Faculty, The Rekooperators (fronted by Jimmy Vivino and Al Kooper), Little Milton, Ruth Brown, Johnny Johnson, James Harmon, Billy Boy Arnold, Kim Wilson, Jimmy McGriff, Joe Louis Walker, John Hammond, Scott Hamilton, Otis Clay, Roomful Of Blues, Rick Danko and Jimmy Vivino & the BlueSoul Rockers!