About Us and Bios

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As a boy in East Texas, my father would wake us up singing; “Good morning to you, good morning to you! We’re all in our places with bright shining faces! Oh, this is the way to start a new day!”. Then he would go play “Deep Purple” on piano while my mother would sing. Now when I play solo, I always try to work that song into the set.

When I was a kid, my family moved around Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana a lot. Being able to play a little Ray Charles or boogie boogie on the piano was a great ice breaker, especially in Arkansas when I was in 2nd grade.  I consider music to be the universal language that could potentially unify us all. 

Doug Legacy Biography (in approximate chronological order)

University of Texas in Austin - 1972 studied music and oceanography

Houston Symphony Chorale - 1973 2nd tenor - also sang in a quartet for the ballet company

Z Z Top - 1974 assisted art director Bill Narum - 2006 Vocal performance @ Capitol Records on “TUSH” for

the film, “The Bucket List” with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, Directed by Rob Reiner

Lucinda Williams – 1974 Houston based band together; shared a bill with Clifton Chenier

The Gong Show - 1977 winner with the Montrose Marching Band

Rod Stewart – keyboard tech and steel drummer - 2 world tours around 1980

Delbert McClinton – early 1980’s played keyboards on east coast tour opening for the Allman Brothers

Van Dyke Parks – 1977 to the present time- 1st AFM session – steel drums with live orchestra for a Marty

Feldman film. “Good for God” - they toured Japan together when “Hey You” came out there and has been

working in his studio for the past 20 years plus. Played steel drums and sang background vocals with Julie

Christensen with VDP sharing a bill with Prince at a festival in Copenhagen.

Delaney Bramlett – played B3 Hammond organ

Peter Ivers – steel drums in his band “Iver’s Divers”

Ziggy Modeliste – collaborated with him on drums in the Chili Steel Band

E.L.O. – keyboard tech and occasionally wore a robot costume - 1 world tour

Barry Manilow – keyboard tech

Jim Wilson – played Accordion on Jim’s “Cape of Good Hope”

Kinky Friedman – played keyboards upstate NY

Jackson Browne – keyboard tech - recorded “King Cake Party” and “Lagnaippe” albums at his Groove

Masters studio

Stevie Nicks – keyboard tech - 2 world tours

Boz Skaggs – keyboard tech

Billy Joel – keyboard tech - two world tours – accompanied Bill on piano at Madison Square Garden

Simon and Garfunkel – keyboard tech

Ry Cooder – accordion and guitar on “King Cake Party” album

David Lindley – collaborated with him on guitar on “Hey You” & “King Cake Party” albums

The Tubes – keyboard tech and played keyboards – Roger Steen, Prairie Prince performed on “Hey You”

Utopia – keyboard tech

Todd Rundgren – sang on tour “A Capella” – Todd produced and performed on “Hey You!”

Jim Keltner – collaborated with him on drums on “Hey You” -produced and performed on “King Cake

Party” album

Brian Wilson – background vocalist on his album “Orange Crate Art” featuring Van Dyke Parks

Freebo – collaborated with him on bass in the The Zydeco Party Band - produced and performed on

“King Cake Party” album and several other ZPB projects

Ricky Lee Jones – keyboard tech and keyboardist on tour

Bruce Hornsby – keyboard tech - 1 world tour

Eliza Gilkyson – played piano on “Through The Looking Glass“ album

Oingo Boingo – keyboard tech, accordionist, percussionist and background vocalist

Sir Paul McCartney – accordionist and background vocalist

Dan Aykroyd - was his accordion coach for the movie “Christmas with the Kranks”

Steven Van Zandt - played Accordion on soundtrack for “Christmas with the Kranks”

Dick Clark – ZPB was the house band for “The Late Mr. Pete Show”

Jim Henson and Richard Gibbs - ZPB was the house Band for “Muppets Tonight”

The Neville Brothers – ZPB opened for them in Europe and Japan

Grant Geissman – accordionist on his album “Bop! Bang! Boom!” – Grant played for several years

with The Zydeco Party Band and was the guitarist on their album “The Gumbo Brotherhood”

Bear McCreary - frequently plays accordion and whistles on his soundtracks

Bob Dylan - played accordion on “Shadow Kingdom”I fell in love with New Orleans music early on. The Meters always had the right groove for me. As a teenager, it was life changing to see Clifton Chenier and his brother Cleveland preform. Clifton was playing all the right licks and Cleveland was running all around the room playing the rubboard (frottoir) with thimbles on his finger tips. Little did I know that years later, I would be running around the hall with a wireless accordion. I have since discovered that Clifton and I had similar musical heroes. Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Lightnin’ Hopkins and Professor Longhair are to name but a few.