Luke Reynolds

As a session guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, he has worked on wide-ranging projects from Sharon Van Etten (Remind Me Tomorrow), Neko Case (Hell-On), Sarah Jarosz (Grammy Award-winning album Undercurrent) and Miranda Lambert (ACM Album of the Year The Weight of These Wings), to Phosphorescent (C'est La Vie), Rayland Baxter (Imaginary Man), and Omar Rodriguez Lopez (Corazones).

Reynolds has released six solo albums—The Neighborhood (2019), The Space Between the Lines (2006), Pictures And Sound (2008), Maps (2010) and After The Flood (2014), and Vanishing Places Vol. 1 Bears Ears (2019), which was written and recorded based on a series of field recordings he made in Bears Ears National Monument. James Gadson played drums and Lars Horntveth contributed horns, woodwinds, and keyboards.

In 1999, Reynolds moved to Nashville to pursue music and attend Belmont University. He interned at Compass Records and Lost Highway Records. In 2002, he formed the band Blue Merle. In February 2005, Blue Merle released Burning in the Sun on Island Records, produced by Stephen Harris. The album reached number eight on the Billboard Heatseekers chart and peaked at number 199 on the Billboard 200.[1] The single, "Burning in the Sun", went top 5 at AAA radio.[2] They performed at Lollapalooza,[3] Farm Aid and Bonnaroo and toured with J.J. Cale and Guster. Their last show was Friday, April 21, 2006 at Vanderbilt University's Rites of Spring music festival.[4] Following Blue Merle,[5] Reynolds left Nashville and spent the next two and a half years writing a body of work which would be released under the name Pictures And Sound, released in August 2008. The album was produced by Jacquire King [6][7] and included a duet with Willie Nelson.[8]

Before starting their 2010 fall tour, Guster announced that Joe Pisapia would not be touring with the band. Instead, Joe would be touring with k.d. lang with whom he had been writing songs. It was also announced that Luke Reynolds would be filling in for Joe starting September 12, 2010.[9] In 2014 the band began recording Evermotion in Cottage Grove, Oregon. Evermotion was released on January 13, 2015 and was produced by Richard Swift.[10][11] Most recently, Guster released their album Look Alive in January 2019, recorded with producers Leo Abrahams and John Congleton. This is the band's second album with Reynolds as a full member and co-writer, following their Richard Swift produced LP, Evermotion.