BIOGRAPHY:
In Short:
Nick Bearden is your one stop rhythm section shop: Equal parts Drums | Guitar | Bass | Vocals | Engineer | Producer
Currently touring with Sara Haze - for more info please visit www.sarahaze.com
Late 2008 Bearden signed on with recording artist Sara Haze on guitar & vocal duty recording and heavily touring the US including performances at The Grand Old Opry in Nashville, TN, South By Southwest Music Festival in Austin, TX, CMJ Music Festival in New York City, NY, and more. Bearden provided guitar on the latest record, My Personal Sky which was mixed by Grammy Award winner Craig Bauer and had a major release on December 3rd, 2009. Songs from this album have been featured on television shows such as MTV's The Hills, America's Next Top Model, Ruby, and 30 other television and movie placements. The album is available on iTunes at www.iTunes.com/sarahaze as well as virtually every other digital online music medium available.
What "they" say:
While most widely known as the drummer for Hammond B3 Organ driven Roots-Rockers Buffalo Creek, many are unaware that 20 year drum and guitar veteran Nick Bearden also moonlights as a Singer / Songwriter / Bassist / Record Producer / Engineer / Embroidered Western Shirt Aficionado / Arranger / for both his own solo projects, and others. As the owner of Buffalo Creek Studios, Bearden gained credibility engineering / mixing / producing for numerous acts ranging from rock, country, acoustic, pop, hip hop & R&B, jazz, and more. Bearden also mixed the album Signal To Noise (2003) and engineered / mixed the album Paint By Numbers (2005).
Nick Bearden mixing, engineering & producing album credits include:
Bryn Loosley: "The Wrecker" - Buffalo Creek Records (2008) **
Buffalo Creek: Paint By Numbers - Vina Loam Records (2005)
Buffalo Creek: Signal To Noise - Vina Loam Records (2003)
Caveat: She - Shit from Candy Records (2004)
Caveat: Caveat - Shit from Candy Records (2001)
**In 2008, Bearden engineered, produced, co-mastered (with J.J. Golden), and provided Drums, Guitar, Baritone Guitar, Dobro and backing vocals on "The Wrecker", the highly anticipated solo record of Portland, Oregon singer songwriter Bryn Loosley which also features Audley Freed of The Black Crows, Tim Bluhm of The Mother Hips, Jackie Greene of Phil Lesh & Friends, Shannon Curtis, and Dru Pressman of The Fabulous Richie Feltons among others.
Nick Bearden instrumentation album credits include:
Sara Haze: Album sessions in progress - 2009 - guitars
Kai Clark (son of Gene Clark, founding member of The Byrds) - (album recording in progress 2009) - guitars, hammond organ, rhodes electric piano, arranging
Alyssa Jacey - Album untitled (2009) - drums, guitars, engineering, mixing, producing
Bryn Loosley: "The Wrecker" - Buffalo Creek Records (2008) - drums, percussion, guitar, baritone guitar, dobro, leslie guitar, vocals, engineering, producing, mastering **
Shannon Curtis: "Paris Can't Have You" - Saint Cloud Records (2008) - drums, guitar
Shannon Curtis: "Boomerangs & Sea saws" - Saint Cloud Records (2007) - drums, guitar
Buffalo Creek: Paint By Numbers - Vina Loam Records (2005) - drums, guitar, engineering, mixing, mastering, songwriting, arranging
Buffalo Creek: Signal To Noise - Vina Loam Records (2003) - drums, guitar, engineering, mixing, producing, songwriting, arranging
Caveat: She - Shit from Candy Records (2004) - drums, guitar, engineering
Caveat: Caveat - Shit from Candy Records (2001) - drums, guitar, engineering
Lifespring - "Lifespring" - (2000)
The Tom Creedy Band - Self Titled (1997) - drums, guitar, engineering, songwriting, producing
Late 2008 / Early 2009 Bearden signed on with recording artist Sara Haze on guitar & vocal duty.
Bearden is currently working on several recording projects with Northern California and International Artists in addition to a new solo record, as yet to be titled.
Aside from Buffalo Creek, Caveat, The Tom Creedy Band, and W.H.A.T., Bearden has had the privilege of recording* and or performing** / studying*** with the likes of:
Mingo Lewis (miles davis, carlos santana, the tubes, Chick Corea, Elton John, Stanley Clarke, Al Dimeola, Steve Gadd, etc) - ***
John Blackwell (Prince, Cameo) - ***
Eric Martin (Mr. Big, 415, EMB) - **
Mike Pinder (The Moody Blues) - ***
Justin Ancheta (Sinclair , Pills & Jackets) * / **
Sinclair * / **
The Mother Hips - **
Tim Bluhm - Lead singer and co-primary songwriter for the Mother Hips, Skinny Singers. * / **
Jackie Greene - (Jackie Greene Band / Phil Lesh & Friends / Skinny Singers)
Mitch Faber (John Lee Hooker, Jimmy McCracklin, Curtis Lawson, Sal Valentino, Boz Skaggs, Lowell Fulsom, etc) ** / ***
Larry Gosch (The Coasters, The Drifters, Chuck Berry) ***
Jason Mraz - **
G.E. Smith (Saturday Night Live Band Leader, go-to Session guy)- ***
Michael O'Dorn (Merle Travis, Chet Atkins) - ***
Kinski *
Alyssa Jacey * / **
Matt Baldoni (Dr. Dre, Arrested Development, Mindi Abair, currently on tour with Frankie Valli, etc) ** / ***
Selena Garcia - **
Kai Clark - (Son of Gene Clark, founding member of The Byrds) - * / **
Shannon Curtis - * / **
Marginal Prophets - **
Children of the Fog - **
Mc Empty Mynd - **
Coot Dog - (Mystic Roots) - **
Mystic Roots - (Currently touring with Pato Banton) - **
Griswald - **
The Fabulous Ritchie Feltons - **
Chingus - *
Kenny Aronoff - (One of the most in-demand session drummers there currently is. Check his album credits. it is nauseating.) - **
Evan Stone - (YouTube HERE) - **
Brad Buethe - **
Many other singer / songwriters / recording artists and performers.
During the early to mid 2000's, Bearden was also touring with live hip / hop R&B artist W.H.A.T. and British Pop-Rockers Caveat.
Bearden is currently available for touring & studio work for drums | guitar | bass | engineering | producing.
Sara Haze & Nick Bearden Duo: The Chameleon Club - Lancaster, PA:
Bryn Loosley & Nick Bearden Duo:
Sara Haze Acoustic - My Own Hands To Hold - As seen on MTV's The Hills:
with Selena Garcia
Buffalo Creek - Delta Breeze
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Buffalo Creek - Get Up Jake - Live at LaSalles in Chico, CA
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