TONY BRAUNAGEL

BIOGRAPHY

Tony Braunagel is an American drummer, record producer and composer, from Houston, Texas. He was the drummer in Paul Kossoff‘s band Back Street Crawler, renamed Crawler after Kossoff’s death in 1976.
In 1979 Braunagel relocated to Los Angeles where he found work touring and recording with artists such as Eric Burdon, Rickie Lee Jones and Bette Midler. In 1984 Tony took the drum chair in Bonnie Raitt’s band, playing on the albums Nick of Time and Luck of the Draw and touring with her until the early 1990s.

Throughout the 1990s Braunagel played on many sessions including drumming on two Grammy award winning albums by Taj Mahal – Señor Blues and Shoutin’ in Key, the latter of which Braunagel produced. He also spent several years touring with Taj Mahal and The Phantom Blues Band.