About The Show
The Lowdown on the Low Notes
The McBass on Bass radio show highlights the best of bass in recorded music, profiles the famous and not-so-famous bass musicians, past and present, who hold down the bottom in all manner of music. We illuminate how fundamentally important bass is to the music we all enjoy. Your host Michael McBass has played bass for 50+ years and continues to play bass in most every form of music, enjoying collaborations with many musicians, in all settings from studio to stage.
James Jamerson
Legendary bassist James Jamerson would have turned 89 years old on Jan. 29th. It’s been over 40 years since he died at the age of only 47...virtually unknown at the time of his passing. As part of Motown’s Funk Brothers house band, he was the bass player behind hundreds of hit records, some of which we listened to on the February 2nd episode.
Carol Kaye
Reputedly the most recorded bassist ever, laying bass lines on countless tracks during seven decades of session work, turns 90 years young on March 24th. We sampled her prolific discography during the March 16th episode.