The hot young thing? At 71, John Leventhal has made a debut album
No one will confuse musician John Leventhal with being the hot new thing
By DAVID BAUDER
Published - Jan 25, 2024, 10:42 AM ET
Last Updated - Jan 25, 2024, 10:42 AM EST
NEW YORK (AP) — It's a little late for John Leventhal to be considered a hot young thing in music.
He's won six Grammy Awards for songwriting and producing records, the latter a role that he essentially fell into as a journeyman guitarist in New York who befriended artists like Shawn Colvin and Jim Lauderdale.
Besides them, Leventhal has produced music for Marc Cohn, Sarah Jarosz, Joan Osborne, William Bell, The Blind Boys of Alabama and his wife, Rosanne Cash. He's played guitar with the likes of Jackson Browne, Willie Nelson, Ry Cooder, Elvis Costello, Donald Fagen and The National.
Probably his biggest popular success was co-writing and producing Colvin's hit, “Sunny Came Home.”
