Born in Wilmington, Delaware, on June 11, 1954, keyboardist and blues harmonica
player Johnny Neel formed his first band, The Shapes of Soul, at the age of
twelve, and enjoyed local success before turning professional. After releasing
his first album, One Hot Night, credited to the Johnny Neel Band, in 1981, he
moved to Nashville three years later as a studio musician, accompanying a host
of artists including Mickey Gilley, Johnny Paycheck, Keith Whitley, Peter Wolf,
Carl Perkins, Suzy Bogguss, Ann Peebles, John Mayall, David Allan Coe and Keith
Urban. It was during a session for...