19 Facts About Tim Krekel

Timothy Joseph Krekel was an American rock singer and country music songwriter from Louisville, Kentucky.

Tim Krekel became interested in music early in life and his first lessons were on the drums.

Tim Krekel began taking guitar lessons at age 10 or 11, when he realised that "the guitar player was up front getting all the attention, [like] Rick Nelson".

Tim Krekel was singing and playing guitar for audiences by the time he was 12, gigging in Lebanon, Kentucky, at places including The Golden Horseshoe and Club 68.

Tim Krekel began to write his own songs in high school, although he was initially reluctant to share them.

Tim Krekel continued to improve his skills and, by the late 1960s, he was in a popular Louisville band called Dusty.

Around that time, Krekel made friends in Nashville and was playing gigs there.

Swan returned to playing with Kris Kristofferson, and Tim Krekel resumed gigging around Nashville.

Tim Krekel was hired by Buffett and was his lead guitarist for a couple of years in the late 1970s and again in the 1980s.

Tim Krekel had assembled his band "The Sluggers" with John Owen, guitarist Thomas Goldsmith, keyboardist Jay Spell and Louisville drummer Dave Marasco.

Tim Krekel was offered the opportunity to make his own record and decided to leave Buffett's band to pursue his own musical vision.

Tim Krekel later assembled another version of the Sluggers, with Tom Comer on bass and David Willis Bailey on drums.

Tim Krekel continued to write, perform and play with other musicians.

Tim Krekel recorded his next album for Arista Records with producer Terry Manning; Over The Fence, with The Sluggers, was released in 1986.

In 1993, disillusioned with the music industry, Tim Krekel moved back to Louisville.

Tim Krekel started a new band, the Groovebillys, and pursued music with a renewed vigor.

In May 2005, a horse named Giacomo won the Kentucky Derby and Tim Krekel resurrected a song he wrote in the early 1990s, named "No Mo Do Giacomo".

Tim Krekel played guitar on Jimmy Buffett's album, Son of a Son of a Sailor.

Tim Krekel played guitar on Buffett's live album You Had to Be There on the track "Tim Krekel Went to Paris".