Wayne is a 40+ year veteran of the music industry. Formerly a bass guitarist with bands all over the country he now writes his own songs and has 6 CD's to his credit. He will be on the road again this year as a solo act and with his SideTracks Band. His newest CD project is an Acoustic Album of original songs with just vocal & Guitar as requested by fans due out June 2011.

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Wayne Longtin Sr. was inducted into the National Traditional Country Music Hall of Fame at the National Traditional Country Music Festival September 2009 in LeMars, Iowa.

Wayne Longtin Sr.

"If experience makes a difference in the music world then this guy is on overload!"

In 2004 Wayne Longtin celebrated 40 years in the music business. A bass guitarist for 30 of those 40 years, Wayne worked steady with road groups all over the country.
Wayne was born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota and grew up in Warba, a small town of 125 on a busy day. Although northern Minnesota was accordion country, Rock & Roll was taking the country by storm and Wayne & his friends were the first to form a band without an accordion. "I had a radio that would pick up all the big stations and the new music. Elvis was my hero even then. I didn't know it but Blues and Jazz and Rock & Roll were influencing me along with Frank Sinatra and big band music. We played our first gig at the village hall with our new band and I don't believe there have been that many people in Warba since. None of us had the money to invest in a lot of music equipment so we'd have 3 people playing out of one amp. But we got by. It was enough for me to know what I wanted to do in life. Music!"

Wayne's first experience playing in a real nightclub was in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1964. Encouraged by the band he discovered a whole new world. He wanted to make music a career immediately. ("I had this problem though. I was too shy to perform in a fancy setting like a nightclub. It made me too nervous!") He set out to solve that problem and spent the next 7 years entering talent shows and performing whereever they'd let him. Today Wayne is a polished performer, comfortable with an audience of 20 or 2000.

In 2005 he decided to write a song. Mainly because he couldn't remember the words to the one he was trying to do. This experience started a songwriting career. He wrote and recorded enough songs for 2 CD's and released them on his own label "Never Too Late Records." "Take Away the Music" became a best seller as well as "Take the Gospel to the World," a Country Gospel CD. In 2008 two more CD's were released, "Music from my Heroes" & "Be all you can be" a 10 song CD of originals. He became a favorite at Country Music Festivals and traveled extensively again. At age 66 and 4 years after that first CD, Wayne is looking forward to an extremely successful summer of travel in 2009. 2 more CD's of original songs were released in 2009 and a busy year is ahead.

Wayne will be inducted into the National Traditional Country Music Hall of Fame at the 2009 National Traditional Country Music Festival in LeMars, Iowa. Be there Saturday September 5th to watch this event.

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over 30 days ago to Wayne Longtin Sr.

Finishing up Acoustic Album of original songs. Deadline? June 23rd?



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