Scott Bristow - Guitar, Bass

Hometown: Rock Hill, SC

Years playing: 100 years

Years teaching: 18 years

Instruments : Guitar, Bass, Ukulele, Harmonica

Current Live Performance: Bristo Blue

Started playing music: 9 years old

Past Bands: The Phones, Panama, The Main Street Blues Band, Wicked Willie and the Mojo Jam

Favorite bands / performers: Phish, Yes, Hendrix

Cool music experiences: Met the Dixie Dregs at a club show in Charlotte

Hobbies: Walking the Appalachian Trail, kayaking, climb trees with ropes and knots.

Advice: Work hard but have FUN!!

Links: ReverbNation - Bristo Blue

Lee Goodwin - Guitar, Bass, Mandolin, Ukulele

Hometown: Rock Hill, SC

Years playing: 40 years

Years teaching: 17 years

Instruments : Guitar, Bass, Mandolin, Ukulele

Current Live Performance: Truckstop Preachers

Started playing music: 8 years old

Past Bands: New York, Buck Bundy Band, Damorama, more...

Favorite bands / performers: Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Black Crowes, AC/DC, Deep Purple, Buckhead, Steve Vai, more

Cool music experiences: Playing the House of Blues with Truckstop Preachers, Meeting Kiss, too many great concerts to just pick one!

Past jobs: Network Administrator at West Port Containers, Charlotte, NC - Sullivan Music, Sales, Rock Hill, SC - Brakefield at Riverwalk, Rock Hill, SC

Hobbies: Listening to music,

Advice: Practice and have a good time doing it!

Links: Truckstop Preachers - Brakefield at Riverwalk

Keith Funderburk - Drums

Hometown: Rock Hill, SC

Years playing: 40 years

Years teaching: 17 years

Instruments : Drums, Also bangs on Guitar, Mandolin, Ukulele

Current Live Performance: The ToneBenders

Started playing music: 10 years old

Past Bands: The Edge, Tim Hartis Group, Little Green Men, Weary Blues, Sat in with a lot of people, more...

Favorite bands / performers: The Who, The Rolling Stones (early stuff), Black Crowes, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, Nanci Griffith, Don Williams (everybody should be!)

Cool music experiences: Meeting Stevie Ray Vaughan (even if he doesn't play drums) - Played drums with Martha Reeves and Vandellas at Newberry Opera House

Past jobs: All the typical drummer side jobs: Construction, Roofing, Painting, Pumped Gas, Herded Cattle, Bussed tables,

Hobbies: Painting, Photography

Advice: You HAVE to PRACTICE!

Links: The ToneBenders

Nash Lyle - Violin/Fiddle, Harmonica

Hometown: Rock Hill, SC

Years playing: 40 years

Years teaching: 10 years

Instruments : Violin/Fiddle, Guitar, Mandolin, Harmonica

Current Live Performance: Whippoorwill String Band

Started playing music: 14 years old

Bands/Musicians you have played with? Chuck Nichols, Joel Estes, Quarter Moon, Nonesuch, Rachel Sprinkle, Sat in with a lot of people, more...

Favorite bands / performers: The Cheiftains, The Bothy Band, Jorma Kaukonen, Tim O'Brien, Hot Tuna, Doc Watson, Little Feat, John Hartford, a lot of fiddlers!

Cool music experiences: Performed an encore with The Cheiftains with a Charlotte music group at Belk Theater.

Past jobs: Full Time Teacher / Coach with Clover School District, Commercial Salmon Fisherman Mate, Construction, etc.

Hobbies: Yard Work (which is sad)

Advice: Meet and play with different people. Perform and PRACTICE as much as possible.

Links: Whippoorwill String Band

Hoss Laney- Guitar, Violin/Fiddle, Banjo

Hometown: Fort Mill, SC

Years playing: 37 years

Years teaching: 7 years

Instruments : Guitar, Fiddle, Banjo, Harmonica

Current Live Performance: Solo

Started playing music: 12 years old

Bands/Musicians you have played with? Sat in with a lot of people

Favorite bands / performers: Grateful Dead, Tommy Jarrell, New Grass Revival, John Hartford, Norman Blake, Jimi Hendrix, Gary Stewart, 60s 70s Rock, John Coltrane

Cool music experiences: Played some festivals in Canada in the 90s. Hung out with Courtney Johnson (New Grass Revival) at Green Acres Music Festivl in 1993.

Advice: You get out what you put in it. Practice.