Michael's Bio

Michael Scudiero was born in Kansas City, Missouri after being conceived in the office of an Italian restaurant with Sinatra and Martin playing in the adjoining lounge. Not long thereafter, Michael's obsession with music began when the jukebox man began giving him stacks of "worn-out" 45's, with Wilson Pickett's "In The Midnight Hour" being his first favorite record. His mother bought him his first guitar at age 7, and over the next three years, Michael learned to play and was ready to grab an electric guitar when fate moved him to rural Kansas and put a silver trumpet in his hands.

Unfortunately, Michael hated the trumpet (and rural Kansas for that matter) and the world grew darker for the young lad. It wasn't long after his two year struggle to avoid last chair in band ended that Michael discovered a passion for all things rock n' roll that permanently derailed his quest for six-string greatness.

Over the years that followed, Michael led a life that is among the most colorful to anyone who knows the details. But eventually, the need to provide for his two beautiful daughters led a struggle from homelessness to affluence that morphed him into someone barely recognizable to himself. Fortunately, through all his changes, Michael's love for music prevailed…he would periodically buy a Strat, play the blues, and write some songs, until his axe would land in the pawnshop.

Finally, around the turn of the millennium, Michael realized two things: he would never be complete without music in his life, and the thing he dug most in all the music he loved was the groove.Upon this realization, Michael bought a bass, got to work, began jamming with his friends in a garage band, and the fretboard began speaking to him like never before.

With a successful career in the software business and a turbulent personal life, he continued to jam, but it was not until a brush with death and communication with THE LORD a couple of years later made Michael realize that life is too short not to play as much music as possible. as soon as he was on his feet, Michael began playing professionally, joining Chip Woodburn in the Gerald Bradley Band. When that band went on hiatus, Chip invited Michael to play with his wife, Jonna, in The Woodburns. As rehearsals were wrapping up, Michael called upon THE LORD, praying for success in the music business. Within a week, The Woodburns payed sat in for a "tune-up" set at a gig with Jim Bush. Sitting in with Jim that evening, Michael met Brent Butcher and began joining him for weekly sessions at Shiney's Paradise Grill. Over the months that followed, the Gerald Bradley Band folded with Michael others playing in a whirlwind of band incarnations and gigs. Meanwhile, the Shiney's gigs turned into bi-weekly events with some of the areas most talented players and singer/songwriters sitting in on any given night.

Michael has again been called to the sticks...although fate was kinder this time being led to the small town of Waxahachie, where he has played the College Street Pub numerous times. Unbeknowst to him, that small town south of Dallas was also home to Jennifer Crockett.It was there he met Eric and Rick and was asked to sit in with Back To Blue one night in early 2007. Michael felt at home during the first measure they played, and now provides the low-end cloud below the thunder and lightning that is Eric Jordan and Rick Fontaine.