The Michael Cantrell Band

Free at last! Gonna rock til I drop. Played my first gig at the Tiki's in East LA in 71 and managed to rock until 79 - the golden years of the SoCal music scene. Worked for Don Podler of American Entertainment sometimes +200 times a year doing single gig casuals. I worked the Bonaventure Grand Ballroom so much I had a locker there. By 1983 I was working at GE Florence SC as Manager Quality Control and by the late 80s I was in San Diego selling photopolymers for Morton International. Aerospace crashed early in the 90s and by 97 I was a LAUSD teacher in Compton. That was cool, but I wasn't born to teach - I was born to rock. After eight years I retired with the minimum pension, and started to write and produce the tracks necessary for the 88 songs copyrighted as JJ Songs. Met Pamela Jordan at a recording studio 15 years ago, she was married to Stephen Stills during the 80s and their daughter is Eleanor Stills, a photographer, my step daughter. Pamela was one of my bro Michael's girls, and soon we started sharing each other - I married her 12 years ago. It's not complicated, Pamela was a celebrated model and groupie, Crawdaddy (that was before Rolling Stone) did a big article about her in the day. The three of us collaborate on all the writing. Our love songs are a metaphor for whatever you want, long for, lost, want back, or never want to see again. It's not complicated probably because we keep it all in the family. Check out the Mooseknucklehoneysuckle.com website for lyric and production blog.