T-Bone Wolk

Tom "T-Bone" Wolk (December 24, 1951 - February 28, 2010) was the longtime bassist with Hall & Oates (since 1981''s Private Eyes album) and was also at one time a member of the Saturday Night Live Band with H&O band mate G.E. Smith. Wolk was multi talented instrumentalist and background singer with who also worked with Hall & Oates member Daryl Hall on some of his solo material, as well as with Carly Simon, Jellyfish, Squeeze, Elvis Costello, Shawn Colvin and Billy Joel over the course of his career. Wolk grew up in New York. In 1991 Wolk co-produced Willie Nile''s Places I Have Never Been on Columbia Records. Wolk also worked with Ryan Leslie on his self-titled debut album. More recently Wolk played a Fender Custom Shop replica of his heavily modified 1964 Precision bass. "T-Bone" recorded on bluesman Guy Davis'' albums, Butt Naked Free and Chocolate to the Bone, and appeared with Guy on "Late Night With Conan O''Brien" performing, "Waitin'' On the Cards to Fall". Wolk had a column in the publication Guitar for the Practicing Musician during the 1980s.