Yates McKendree - Need To Know

Artiest/Band: Yates McKendree Album: Need To Know Release: Out Now Label: Qualified Records Format: CD/LP/DL/Digital Genre: Blues Produced by Kevin McKendree at The Rock House in Franklin Born in Nashville and raised in a recording studio, multi-instrumentalist Yates McKendree grew up hearing and playing with some of Music City’s greatest musicians. Self taught from the age 3, music came to him naturally. .......►►►

Born in Nashville and raised in a recording studio, multi-instrumentalist Yates McKendree grew up hearing and playing with some of Music City’s greatest musicians. Self taught from the age 3, music came to him naturally. Although still just a young man of 23 years, his experience as a professional musician goes back over a decade. That early experience includes playing regularly in some of Nashville’s most notable venues (The Bluebird Cafe, The Ryman Auditorium, Third & Lindsley). It also includes North American and European tours and multiple appearances on national television (Imus In The Morning, CBS Mornings).

During Yates’s teenage years, he played on and engineered dozens of recordings in his father’s (Kevin McKendree) studio, The Rock House; most notably for Delbert McClinton and John Hiatt, who told Rolling Stone Magazine, “Yates was our secret ingredient.” In January 2020, Yates earned a Grammy® Award for his role as an engineer and a musician on Delbert McClinton’s “Tall Dark & Handsome”.

In 2023, the award winning McKendree released his debut LP, “Buchanan

Lane” on Qualified Records. The album was nominated for two Blues Music Awards® and is a favorite among blues lovers everywhere. The success of the album led to a strong demand for live performances in North America and Europe. Yates has been hitting the road with his band ever since. NEED TO KNOW is his follow-on album, featuring all new originals co-written with Gary Nicholson along with handpicked covers of classic  tunes.

In between touring and his Monday night residency at the world-famous Bluebird Cafe, Yates managed to find time to write and record another album of original songs, deep blues and R&B. Available everywhere July 11, 2025, “Need To Know” highlights Yates’s skills, remarkable style and taste as a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist with an emphasis on guitar.

Because of Yates’s lifelong, intense dedication to blues and roots music, he has developed a direct line from his soul to whatever instrument he holds. When he sings and plays, you don’t just hear it, you feel it…deeply. Yates and his band are looking forward to playing the blues for you!

Burnin’ Tears (Y. McKendree/G. Nicholson)
Yates McKendree: vocal, lead guitar
Kevin McKendree: electric piano, Hammond organ
Robert Frahm: rhythm guitar
Griffin Photoglou: drums Steve Mackey: bass guitar
Need To Know You Better (Y. McKendree, G. Nicholson)
Yates McKendree: vocal, lead guitar
Kevin McKendree: Hammond organ
Robert Frahm: rhythm guitar
Griffin Photoglou: drums
Steve Mackey: bass guitar
Run It In The Ground (Y. McKendree, G. Nicholson)
Yates McKendree: vocal, lead guitar
Kevin McKendree: piano
Robert Frahm: rhythm guitar
Griffin Photoglou: drums
Steve Mackey: bass guitar
I Don’t Care (J. Brown)
Yates McKendree: vocal, guitar Kevin McKendree: piano
George Sluppick: drums
Steve Mackey: bass guitar
Jim Hoke: horn arrangement, tenor and baritone saxophones
Steve Herrman: trumpet
John Hinchey: trombone
Trick Bag (E. King)
Yates McKendree: vocal, lead guitar
Kevin McKendree: piano, bass guitar
Robert Frahm: rhythm guitar
Kenneth Blevins: drums and percussion
Delbert McClinton: Father-In-Law
Something You Got (C. Kenner)
Yates McKendree: vocal, lead guitar
Kevin McKendree: piano
Robert Frahm: rhythm guitar Kenneth Blevins: drums
See See Rider (Traditional, arranged by Yates McKendree)
Yates McKendree: vocal, lead guitar
Kevin McKendree: Hammond organ
Robert Frahm: rhythm and lead guitar
Griffin Photoglou: drums
Steve Mackey: bass guitar
I Can’t Stop (W. Dixon)
Yates McKendree: vocal, lead guitar
Kevin McKendree: piano
Robert Frahm: rhythm guitar
Griffin Photoglou: drums
Steve Mackey: bass guitar
Give Me Time (S. Maghett)
Yates McKendree: vocal, guitar, drums, bass, organ
Kevin McKendree: electric piano
Steve Mackey: bass guitar
Good As Gone (McKendree/Duncan)
Yates McKendree: vocal, lead guitar, drums & bass
Kevin McKendree: organ, guitar
Ode To Billy Joe (B. Gentry)
Yates McKendree: vocal, drums (left side), bass guitar, Hammond organ
Robert Frahm: guitar
Griffin Photoglou: drums (right side)
I Wanna Go Home (C. Brown)
Yates McKendree: vocal, upright bass
Sean “Mack” McDonald: vocal, drums
Kevin McKendree: piano
Tide (Y. McKendree)
Yates McKendree: washer & dryer, guitars, bass guitar, Hammond organ
George Sluppick: percussion

“I have said Yates is proof of reincarnation, only a very old and experienced soul could make his kind of art. Yes, he’s been

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