EP91 - Ernie McKone - Bass Player & Producer... ”It’s a question of priority and I think that you would still be here for me”

Ernie McKone is a UK-based bass player, producer and tutor whose
speciality is jazz, funk, Latin and soul. With so many
connections to Paul Weller and the likes of Mick Talbot, Steve
White, Carleen Anderson, Jacko Peake and Matt Deighton over the
past 30 plus years - there are some great stories to dig into.In
1997, Ernie joined the Paul Weller live band - taking over from
Yolanda Charles - and he toured Europe and the UK for a couple of
years around the release of the album Heavy Soul.The Victoria
Park gig of 1998 has been captured on film (YouTube link below)
and the audio was released as a limited edition bonus Live
Classics CD with Paul's first solo greatest hits - Modern
Classics.More recently Ernie has remixed one of the many stand
out tracks from the Paul Weller album Fat Pop - with October 2021
seeing the release of Glad Times (Soul Steppers) - Remixed by
Boogie Back. He also did a stonking version of Stone Foundation's
Deeper Love (which featured Paul on vocals) with a Late Night
Jazz Funk Mix.


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Ernie’s track record also includes work with Sister Sledge,
Galliano, Incognito, PUSH, Seal, Leon Ware, Reuben Wilson, Fred
Wesley, Pee Wee Ellis, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Marlena
Shaw, Urban Species, Reel People and Craig Charles Fantasy Funk
Band.Ernie also runs Boogie Back Records - an underground label
that releases jazz funk and street soul. Artists who have
appeared on the label include Omar, The Valentine Brothers,
Vivienne McKone (his sister who also played keys with The Style
Council for a time), Max Beesley, Mica Paris and more...Ernie
played with Galliano in the early nineties - performing on the
brilliant albums In Pursuit of the 13th Note, A Joyful Noise unto
the Creator and The Plot Thickens.In 1993, he played bass on the
Talbot & White album - United States of Mind.


 


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