"...almost no one alive has lived as much rock 'n' roll history as Mr. Kooper..."  SUNDAY NEW YORK TIMES

"Considered one of the most formidable talents in modern music, he's played a key role in tens of millions of albums and singles sold in the last forty years." ~ MUSIC CONNECTION MAGAZINE

Over the course of Al Kooper's career, he has been a bandleader, studio musician, solo artist, songwriter, talent scout, and producer. Fronting the Blues Project; forming Blood, Sweat & Tears; playing sessions with Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones; discovering Lynyrd Skynyrd; producing the Tubes; and authoring the memoir Backstage Passes & Backstabbing Bastards were just a few of the stops that he made along the way.
But if one moment changed Kooper's life, it happened the day he sat in on a Bob Dylan session in 1965. Dylan was working out a new, five-minute song with a lot of words; Kooper was determined to get himself on the record and swore he had the perfect organ part. Even though he wasn't yet an organist and had no idea what he'd be playing, he sat down at the Hammond and went for it. The result: "Like a Rolling Stone," with some of rock's most recognizable organ licks.