Danny “Kootch” Kortchmar

DANNY “KOOTCH” KORTCHMAR
 
 
Danny “Kootch” Kortchmar  (born April 6, 1946) is an American guitarist, session musician, producer and songwriter.  Kortchmar’s work with singer-songwriters such as Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor, David Crosby, Carole King, David Cassidy, Graham Nash, Neil Young, and Carly Simon helped define the signature sound of the singer-songwriter era of the 1970s.  Jackson Browne and Don Henley have recorded many songs written or co-written by Kortchmar, and Kortchmar was Henley’s songwriting and producing partner in the 1980s.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 

For the Bob Dylan album Shot of Love, other players include ex-Beatle Ringo Starr on drums, current Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood on guitar, bass guitarist Donald “Duck” Dunn – formerly of Booker T and the MG’s and also the Blues Brothers Band – and veteran sessionman Danny “Kootch” Kortchmar on guitar and electric guitar.  Bumps Blackwell, who produced most of Little Richard’s most indelible songs, produced the title song “Shot of Love”. 

 

(August 2014)