Kenny Lyon

In 2015 he toured as guitarist with Josh Haden and the band Spain. This led to being the producer of the new project by Spain, Carolina, and performing in its summer, 2016 European support tour.

Brazzaville, formed with David Brown, David Ralicke, Mike Boito, Smokey Hormel, Danny Frankel, and Joel Virgel in 1998, recorded eight cds and spent years touring – still ongoing – in Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Central Asia and the Caucuses, and China. In addition, the band backed up Los Angeles Peabody Award-winning spoken word artist Joe Frank. This turned into an association that has lasted until this day, involving many live performances and work on the recorded music for Frank's many radio and live shows. Lyon writes with and produces the work of solo artists Joel Virgel and Larkin Mclean, among others.

After recording and touring with Mark Curry, recording with Jann Arden, and recording with Doc Lawrence, Lyon moved to New York, eventually recording and touring with The Lemonheads beginning in 1996. The association lasted until 2004.

Lyon's first major tour was as keyboardist with the Australian band Divinyls during the 1986-87 Australian Made Tour with INXS and Jimmy Barnes, as well as several regional tours of Australia.

He was in many bands during the 1980s and early 1990s, including Jim Ehinger's Los Angeles China Club house band, which backed up artists as diverse as Rick James, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Herbie Hancock, John Entwhistle, Chaka Khan, and Joe Walsh, to name a few of the acts who played on Los Angeles' most notorious Monday jam nights.

Kenny Lyon (born April 22, 1956) is an American guitarist, bassist, music producer, and author. He has performed and recorded with artists such as the Lemonheads, Jann Arden, NOFX, Mark Curry, Los Super Elegantes, Joel Virgel, Jim Bianco, and Brazzaville. He has also produced many kinds of music (including Chicano gangster rap, having produced some of the genre's biggest L.A. names: Mr. D, Sleepy Malo, Fank V., many of the original Southland Records cds.)