Drew Glackin

Bassist and multi-instrumentalist in New York. Born in 1963 and died in January 2008, age 44. Glackin played bass, guitar, mandolin, steel guitar and piano. Glackin grew up in Phillipsburg, New Jersey and attended Hartt School of Music of the University of Hartford in the early 1980s, remaining in Hartford until about 1997. While in Hartford, he was a member of The Monster Band, Mr. Right, The Commuters and The Zywacks. He moved to New York City in 1997. He was a member of alt-country rock band The Silos from 1998 to his death. Glackin also played with Crash Test Dummies, Graham Parker, Jack Grace Band, Susan Tedeschi, Maynard & the Musties, the Oxygen Ponies and others.