Your identity is not equivalent to your biography.  John O'Donohue

Known primarily for his work in the singer-songwriter and roots music genres, Lorne Entress made the decision to seriously pursue music in the early 1980’s in Boston, Massachusetts. After a few years of on-the-job training at local clubs, hotel lounges, and ski lodges, he landed his first “real” gig drumming with Barrence Whitfield and the Savages in 1986. The blistering rhythm-and-blues band won two awards at the first annual Boston Music Awards, appeared on national TV, recorded for Rounder Records, and toured Europe twice to rave reviews. (I’m convinced people resign their jobs to follow a tour like this. -- TIME OUT.) After an amicable split with the Savages, Lorne co-founded the Bruce Katz Band with keys wizard Bruce Katz, and in the early 90’s they recorded two CDs at Ocean Way, in Los Angeles, for AudioQuest. What resulted was a genre-shattering mix of blues, jazz, and rock that DOWNBEAT defined as “an unsettling mood that hints at Chicago blues impudence and an AACM boldness.”

In early 1998 engineer Mark Thayer slipped Lorne a ruff demo of a new young singer-songwriter by the name of Mark Erelli, and asked him to check it out. Impressed by what he heard, Lorne struck up a friendship that blossomed into producing five Mark Erelli CDs for Signature Sounds.  Erelli is “a highly distinctive vocalist whose taut warble and saturnine songs weave an absorbing spell” said BILLBOARD. Lorne’s success with Mark Erelli naturally led to other Signature projects as well, such as drumming on Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer’s Tanglewood Tree and Drum, Hat, Bhudda, and Erin McKeown’s Distillation.  In 2004 Lorne produced the critically acclaimed album Bittertown for Lori Mckenna, a CD that Faith Hill loved so much she covered three of its songs on her own CD Fireflies.  Bittertown went on to be re-released on Warner Brothers Nashville in 2005.   

These past few years have found Lorne performing or recording with roots rock icon Big Al Anderson, "folk-rock goddess" Catie Curtis, Sony recording artists Ollabelle, Madi Diaz, folk sisters Nerissa and Katryna Nields, blues guitarist Ronnie Earl, Chris Collingwood (of Fountains of Wayne) Kris Delmhorst, Boston's The Giant Kings, The Shinolas, folk newcomer Jenna Lindbo, Hayley Reardon, Sierra West, Americana artist Amy Black, Kayla Ringelheim, Mississippi bluesman Big Jack Johnson, Voices on the Verge’s Beth Amsel and Jess Klein, Bobby Keyes and Lucky Stereo, Fiske and Herrera, folk star Vance Gilbert, John Pousette Dart, Shabboo All Stars, Brooks Williams, Jim Henry, Tracy Grammer, Dennis Brennen, Ben Demerath, Ellis Paul, John Hogg, Shane Koss, blues great Kim Wilson, Susan Cattaneo, Jeffrey Foucault, Austin and Elliot, New Orleans pianist Henry Butler,and as Musical Director for Signature Sounds 10th Anniversary Show.  In addition, Lorne has lent his talents to TV and screen projects, including HBO, the John Sayles movies Limbo and Honeydripper, and co-producing the documentary The Memorial Hall Recordings, which aired on public television stations across the USA. In his “spare time” Lorne has authored two music books, Time and Drumming (Mel Bay) and The Guitar Hymnal. (see Books)

2011 marked the release of Stretch Limousine on Fire, the new Catie Curtis CD on Compass Records produced by Lorne Entress.  Fans and critics are already hailing it as one of her best.  Lorne is currently producing albums for Jenna Lindbo, Hayley Reardon, and Sierra West, all set for release in 2012.   In addition Lorne has produced Telluride winner Jonathan Kingham, Mighty Sam McClain, Bruce MacKay, Four Piece Suit, Ronnie Earl, and young neo-traditionalist, Alastair Moock. (“This is the CD that fans knew he had in him.” – BOSTON GLOBE) Lorne’s project studio and vintage instrument collection assist him in creating some of the freshest sounds on record today.