BIOGRAPHY
Tony Garnier is an American bassist born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and raised in southern California, into a musical lineage: his grandfather D'Jalma "Papa" Garnier was a New Orleans jazz trumpeter and bandleader, and his brother D'Jalma is a Creole fiddler. By the mid-1970s Garnier was touring with Asleep at the Wheel before moving into New York's avant-garde scene with The Lounge Lizards. Through the late 1970s and 1980s he built a reputation as a versatile sideman, backing Robert Gordon, Otis Rush, Albert Collins, and David Johansen (as Buster Poindexter), and appearing on Tom Waits' 1985 album Rain Dogs. He also contributed bass to Jim Jarmusch films, including Down by Law, before joining Bob Dylan's band in 1989, a partnership that has continued for over three decades.