Tony started playing in Houston Texas where he grew up. Exposed to the roots music of that era with Blues and R&B, he continued his career with a couple of years in New York, then toured with Johnny Nash.

Later moved to London England for five years, and his start there was as a house drummer for Island Records. He then joined Back Street Crawler with Paul Kossoff, and continued as Crawler after Paul’s demise.

In 1979 Tony moved to Los Angeles and found himself working with Eric Burdon of the Animals and Rickie Lee Jones on the road. This was followed by Bette Midler, Etta James and then Bonnie Raitt through her famous sweep of four awards at the Grammy’s in 1990.

Going solo again in the early 90’s he hooked up in the studio with Taj Mahal through John Porter, English producer who also hired him to play on records such as Otis Rush, Keb’ Mo and many others.

The Phantom Blues Band was put together to be Taj’s road band and that’s how they started. They made four records together and toured for many years.

In his career he has also recorded with BB King, played live onstage with him, as well as John Lee Hooker, Charles Brown, Jimmie Reed, Hubert Sumlin, Little Milton, Rufus Thomas, Dr. John, and Eric Clapton.

Toured with Robert Cray and made two albums with his band as well as a Live DVD.

Tony has produced close to 40 albums and various other sessions/artists. Winning a Grammy for producing “Shoutin’ In Key” with Taj Mahal and the Phantom Blues Band, and a Grammy nomination for producing Danielle Nicole in 2019. Several Blues Music Awards were given to artists he produced.

He's also toured with the Sacred Hearts band since the early 90’s backing the Blues Bros., Dan Akroyd and Jim Belushi, and co-produced an album on them as well in 2003. He spent 8 years with a recurring role as an actor on Jim Belushi’s sitcom, According To Jim.

As a drummer he has been nominated for Drummer of the Year at the Blues Foundation’s, Blues Music Awards, at least a dozen times, and won that award in 2018. Happy to be making music with his friends/brothers with the Phantom Blues Band, and looking forward to playing the new music live.

Larry Fulcher, born in Houston, Texas, is a Grammy Award, W.C. Handy, BBC Blues and Blues Music Award winning musician and producer. He began his musical career singing in church at the age of five, then on weekends singing along with the jukebox for patrons at the family-owned cafe. At age thirteen, Larry moved to Southern California where he began his recording career at age seventeen, singing and playing organ for songwriters at Los Angeles'  Gold Star Recording Studio. During this period, Larry was able to learn the art of recording by watching the studio's house band, L.A.'s famed "Wrecking Crew".

Moving to bass at age nineteen, Larry's band signed with Leon Russell's "Shelter Records", then to Frank Zappa's "Bizarre Records", leading to recordings with producers Norman Whitfield and Norman Davis for Motown Records, Smokey Robinson, The Crusaders, Taj Mahal, Willie Nelson, Maria Muldaur, Ruthie Foster, The Ventures, guitarist Cornell Dupree and many others. 

In the reggae world, Larry has worked with legends including Ziggy Marley, The Wailers, Andrew Tosh, Sly & Robbie, The Mighty Diamonds, The Soul Syndicate, Big Youth, Daddy U-Roy, Third World, and Eek-A-Mouse.

Larry Fulcher's  co-production of Annika Chambers "Kiss My Sass" album won her a "Soul Blues Artist of The Year" in the 2019 Blues Music Awards. His production of Evelyn Rubio's "Crossing Borders" album earned a nomination in the Latin Music Awards in 2020.

Larry is currently touring/recording with Ruthie Foster....and recording with the Phantom Blues Band.

Grammy, Blues Music Award and W.C. Handy Award winner, Joe Sublett started his musical career playing in bands in Corpus Christi, Texas before moving to Austin where as part of the 1970s Austin blues scene he played tenor sax with Paul Ray and The Cobras alongside a twenty-one year old Stevie Ray Vaughan. The Cobras, The Fabulous Thunderbirds and Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble played a big part in defining Austin, Texas as the music city it has become in the last several decades.  

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Johnny Lee got his start in music working with Norman Petty, the famed producer who was responsible for Buddy Holly in Clovis, New Mexico, Johnny Lee left home in Farwell, Texas with his band "Baby" for a life adventure in music.

In the late seventies, Johnny arrived in Los Angeles and began touring with Bonnie Raitt and The Bump Band. He has toured with Taj Mahal, Ron Wood and John Fogerty.

Johnny currently spends his time running Ultra Tone Studios where he has recorded all the Phantom Blues Band CDs and just finished recording and mixing the latest Little Feat project.

Les was born in San Francisco, California and began his professional music career in 1964 at the age of ten playing gigs in and around the S.F. Bay Area. After finishing his College education at North Texas State University and touring with the Famed 1:00 Lab Band, Les moved to Los Angeles where has continued to pursue his freelance career since the early 1980’s.

Les has toured with - The Eagles, Woody Herman, Glen Campbell, Mel Torme, Brian Setzer,
The McGuire Sisters, Taj Mahal, Jack Mack , Debbie Reynolds and
Peter Nero to name just a few of the Artists .

Les has Recorded with - Herbie Hancock, No Doubt, Bobby Womack, Gregg Allman, Glenn
Frey, Simon Shaheen, Rhiannon Giddens, Bob Belden, Mark Masters,
Sheryl Crow, Dwight Yoakam, Eric Burdon, Fantasia, Neil Diamond,
Buddy Greco, Woody Herman, Hoobastank and many more.

Prominent influences include - Fred Berry, Jim Riggs, Dr. Leon Breeden and Trumpet Greats -
Edward Haug, Claude Gordon, Miles Davis and Donald Byrd.

Les has been profoundly influenced through his close forty year friendship with the Late Great
Jazz Artist - Bob Belden.