Clayton Doley

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Clayton Doley (born 13 September 1974) is an Australian musician, singer, songwriter, television musical director, arranger, and record producer best known for his Hammond Organ virtuosity.[1]

Songwriter and producer

As a songwriter Clayton has had his works recorded by The Whitlams,[2] Jimmy Barnes,[3] Mahalia Barnes,[4] Jade MacRae, Ngaiire and Kara Grainger. He has produced tracks for Jimmy Barnes' platinum selling Double Happiness album[3] and Jade MacRae's ARIA award-winning self-titled debut.

Session musician

As a recording session musician Clayton is most often credited as playing the Hammond Organ and is sometimes listed as Clayton Dooley. He also performs on a wide variety keyboard instruments and has been credited with playing piano, wurlitzer, rhodes, clavinet and mellotron. He has played on albums for artists such as Harry Manx,[5] A Camp[6] (Sweden), Eugene "Hideaway" Bridges (USA),[7] Jimmy Barnes,[8] Renee Geyer, Billy Thorpe, The Whitlams,[9] The Rockmellons, Adam Brand, Kasey Chambers, Alex Lloyd, Troy Cassar-Daley,[10] James Blundell,[11] Adam Harvey, Ed Kuepper, Slim Dusty, Beccy Cole, Felicity Urquhart, Rick Price,[12] Tina Harrod, Jackie Orszaczky,[1] Mahalia Barnes,[13] Jade Macrae, Kevin Borich[14] to name a few.[15]

Tours

As a live session musician, Clayton has played for Steve Cropper and Donald "Duck" Dunn from Booker T and The MG's (USA), Larry Braggs and David Garibaldi[16] from Tower Of Power (USA), Joe Bonamassa(USA), The Divinyls,[17] Nigel Kennedy[18] (UK), Eugene "Hideaway" Bridges[19] (USA), Harry Manx (Canada), Silverchair, Billy Thorpe, Jon Stevens, Vanessa Amorosi, Guy Sebastian, Jimmy Barnes, Ian Moss, Russell Morris, Renee Geyer, The Whitlams, Mica Paris (UK), Margie Evans (USA), Louisiana Red (USA), Mojo Buford (USA), Hubert Sumlin (USA), Guitar Shorty (USA), Jenny Morris, Mia Dyson, James Morrison, Don Burrows, Adam Brand, Deborah Conway, Marcia Hines, Deni Hines, Disco Montego. At 16 he joined Adalaide band Double Wammy[20] and at 18 he joined Sydney band The Mighty Reapers,[21] and has since started his own bands The Hands[1] and Clayton Doley's Organ Donors.[22] He has opened for James Brown, BB King, Buddy Guy and Junior Wells, Albert Collins, Albert King, Georgie Fame, Maceo Parker, Jon Cleary, Bon Jovi, Cheap Trick, Ronan Keating,

Band leader

In 2002 Clayton and his brother Lachlan formed soul band The Hands, driven by the dueling keyboards of Clayton on Hammond Organ and Lachlan Doley on Hohner D6 Clavinet. The Hands have recorded two albums of original songs, "Live and Breathe" in 2004 and "Everything Is Wonderful"[23] in 2008.

In 2006 Clayton Doley's Organ Donors was formed with longtime friends and fellow musicians Jak Housden on guitar (Badloves), James Haselwood on Bass, and Dave Hibbard (also from The Hands) on Drums. They regularly performed on the Australian festival circuit and have been referred to as Australia's answer to Booker T and the MG's.[22] In 2010 Clayton Doley's Organ Donors released the critically acclaimed instrumental album on Sundazed called Tension.

In 2012 Clayton Doley released his debut album as a solo artist "Desperate Times", an organ trio album recorded in Canada. The organ trio known as The Clayton Doley Organ Experience currently performs all over the world.

In 2015 Clayton Doley will be releasing in his long awaited second album as a solo artist called "Bayou Billabong", a New Orleans Piano album recorded in New Orleans.

Musical director for television

As has worked as a television musical director for such shows as Good News Week[24] broadcast on Network 10, The Sideshow broadcast on the ABC network, Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF) Opening Night Gala 2009 and 2010 broadcast on Network 10 and musical director for The Great Debate 2011 broadcast on Network 10.

References

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