John Carrick

I have played in strip joints, major festivals, in music halls, gay dance bars, joints, honkytonks, roadhouses, house concerts, listening rooms for bookers, shysters, frat boys, corporate gigs, for the government, working people and fat cats, I played for demonstrations, fundraisers, and for big money. I’ve also played for chump change, pass the hat or nothing at all if I could have a great time.

It may sound like a pack of lies but it’s all true and more:

• As a young man I jammed (and partied) with Jerry Jeff Walker, Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, John Denver( he was Dusseldorf back then), Lightnin Hopkins, Mance Lipscomb, Gate Mouth Brown, Dan Hicks, and KT Oslin
• I made a record with T-Bone Burnett
• Emmylou Harris sang backup for me at a festival in California
• I was on a bill with the Smothers Brothers
• I hired Janis Joplin and played bass for her (badly)
• I hired Doc Watson and Joni Mitchell too. They played my club Sand Mountain in Houston. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_Mountain_Coffee_House

I like to play music for people to dance. I love the magic when the musicians and the audience become one. For a few minutes, regardless of how different or close we are, we all are one, caught up in the magic of music.

Phil Moon

As my friend John Boylan says “A career is what happens while you’re figuring out what you want to do.”

I had a variety of management and executive jobs in the music and pro audio segments, working for MXR Innovations, Yamaha, Alesis, JBL Pro and Lynx Studio Technology. I also owned my own consulting company with clients such as Gretsch, Aphex, Fender, Tascam and many others. I was involved with many products including Yamaha DX7, SPX90, PM3000, several Gretsch guitars, ADAT, JBL Vertec and Eon speakers and Lynx Aurora and Hilo converters.

I also worked with many artists including Billy Gibbons, Stephen Stills, Brian Setzer,Michael McDonald, Michael Nesmith, Duane Eddy, Malcolm Young, Nathan East.

In 1998 I resumed playing in a band joining the Rounders, a bar band that was formed in 1965 and played continuously until 2020. In Santa Fe I cofounded and coproduced the Platinum Music Awards from 2017-2019.

I continued performing, first as the cofounder of Long Gone with James Caruso. I also formed a band with John Carrick first as the Juke Joint Prophets then as the Road House Prophets. John and I have continued to collaborate for 9+ years and we are the singers, writers and guitarists of the Depot Drifters. In 2024 I founded the JB/EC Band dedicated to playing the music of Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton.

Depot Drifters allows me, John, Chris and Dave to dig deep into some great tunes in acoustic and electric formats. Amazing original music written by John Carrick will be featured.

Dave Wayne

I’m a self-taught drummer & percussionist who’s been a part of the Santa Fe music scene since 1993. Besides the Depot Drifters, I’m playing original instrumental music with Love Unfold The Sun and the improvising ensemble Present Moment. In years past, I’ve played blues with the Gagan Brothers, punk with Bichos, progressive rock with Bing, Shatner Powerslide, and Octaveleven, funk with Shake Alert, and instrumental post-rock with Fire For The People. However, most of my musical endeavors have been in the jazz realm with Protuberance, Zimbabwe Nkenya, OrnEtc, Love Unfold The Sun, and Present Moment. I’ve also had the good fortune to perform with notable jazz musicians such as Chris Jonas, Mustafa Stefan Dill, Kim Stone, Delbert Anderson, Brian Haas, Thollem McDonas, Dan Clucas, Jeff Platz, Andrew Lamb, Jack Wright, and Michael Vlatkovich.

In 2009, I composed my own original pieces and formed a band – The Things That Are Heard – to play them. The band lasted for 18 torrid months, ~16 months longer than expected. Although none of that music was recorded, my playing can be heard on a fistful of albums - privately issued and on labels such as pfMENTUM, Plutonium, Snowdonia, and Zerx.I’m especially proud of the music on 2 of these albums: “These Times” by OrnEtc. (2016, self-released), and “Hotend: the Music of Julius Hemphill” by Do Tell (2015, Amirani Records).

In addition to playing the drums, I maintain a record collecting vlog on YouTube called “Cheap Heat”. I have also written numerous music reviews for various online publications, and could also write some really sweet liner notes for your next release!

Chris McMahon

As a young bass player I had the honor of opening for the Count Basie Band. Twice. Then after a couple of years playing the blues with Sammy Blue (who would go on to work with Taj Mahal), I was playing bass for the newly-formed Indigo Girls. After that I was backing Gerard McHugh on upright acoustic bass— we played SXSW in 1991 and in 1992 we did ten shows on the Indigo Girls+Matthew Sweet ‘Rites of Passage’ tour, playing for ten thousand people every night. We got standing ovations. Then I was in a number of popular Atlanta acoustic folk/Americana bands and toured relentlessly from Florida to Virginia and out west in Colorado and Wyoming. I made a bunch of records around then. I’ve shared the stage with everyone from Michael Nesmith of The Monkees to a teenage Derek Trucks, from The Marshall Tucker Band to Shawn Mullins. Amy Lee, music director for Jimmy Buffett for many years filled in on saxophone in my long-time Atlanta jazz band, the Seven Steps Jazz Quartet. I quit the music business in the late 1990s although you may have heard me playing jazz in Durango CO. It’s good to be back playing bass in Santa Fe.