John Batdorf
Fri, Oct 06
|Wesley's Place - Live Music
John Batdorf is a singer-songwriter and guitarist with a career spanning over five decades, known for his soulful melodies and heartfelt lyrics. With an extensive catalog of original music and a captivating live performance, John Batdorf is a true gem of folk rock that you won't want to miss.
Time & Location
Oct 06, 2023, 7:00 PM
Wesley's Place - Live Music, 100 W Cossitt Ave, La Grange, IL 60525, USA
About The Event
John Batdorf is a singer-songwriter solo artist and one half of Las Vegas Rock and Roll Hall Of Famers folk-rock duo Batdorf & Rodney. He’s also a successful film and TV composer, session vocalist, and inspirational musician in the substance recovery community.In his five-decade career, he’s worked with icons such as Ahmet Ertegun, David Geffen, Clive Davis, Roger Birnbaum, Adele, James Horner, Jimmie Haskell, Bill Conti, Bob Ezrin, Tom Werman, Bill Halverson, America, Rod Stewart, Dave Mason, Donna Summer, Dwight Yoakum, David Lee Roth, and Motley Crüe, plus many others. In the realm of film and TV incidental music, he’s lent his voice and compositional skills to beloved shows such as Tom and Jerry Kids, Garfield and Friends, Touched By An Angel, Promised Land, and Doctor, Doctor, and Book of Days. Most recently Wham Bam, a hit by John’s band Silver in 1976 is now part of the soundtrack to Guardians Of The Galaxy ll. With legendary Utah-based singer, composer, and filmmaker, Michael McLean, under Batdorf & McLean, he’s launched a unique substance abuse survival platform, and released the CD Soundtrax2Recovery.Batdorf has also released new music collaboratively with his old partner Mark Rodney and James Lee Stanley. Since 2004, he’s released nine solo albums on his own imprint, BATMAC MUSIC.Since 2017, John has released three new CDs including, Me and My Guitar, a 17-song rearranged and unplugged collection of songs John has recorded in his 52 year career, Last Summer and An Extraordinary Ordinary Life, Side ll and I’ll Let Roy’s Song Carry Me Home were all written, recorded and released during the great pandemic of 2020/2023.
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