Larry Campbell is a multi-instrumentalist who has been performing as a backup musician and recording music with other artists since the 70s. He presently has a solo acoustic guitar album out called "Rooftops".

Larry has had extensive experience as a studio musician as evidenced by his discography. Over the past few years, Larry has recorded with Paul Simon, Willie Nelson, Peter Wolf, Little Feat, Lyle Lovett and Sheryl Crow to name a few. In addition, Larry played on Bob Dylan's latest studio album, "Love and Theft" which received 5 stars from Rolling Stone Magazine and was nominated and won a Grammy Award for "Best Contemporary Folk Album". (2002) Coincidentally, he also played on Buddy and Julie Miller's album that year (titled "Buddy and Julie Miller") which was also nominated for "Best Contemporary Folk Album".

Larry was a member of Bob Dylan's "Never Ending Tour" band from March 31, 1997 until November 21, 2004. When he joined the band, he replaced J.J. Jackson as a guitarist and his role in the band expanded to multi-instrumentalist, playing other instruments such as cittern, violin/fiddle, pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar, mandolin, banjo and slide guitar. He also contributed vocals. When introducing Larry and the rest of the band, Bob Dylan often referred to them as some of the finest musicians in the country.

When Larry was not performing with Bob Dylan, he often made guest appearances with other artists. He has performed with Richard Shindell, Buddy and Julie Miller, Levon Helm and Little Feat. Prior to 1997, Larry played on tour with other artists, including Cyndi Lauper , K. D. Lang,and Rosanne Cash.
Since his departure from Bob Dylan's band, he continues to make guest appearances with various artists. He has also been working with his wife, Teresa Williams, who is a singer/actress/performer. They have performed locally in New York City, on Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour and on The Blue Plate Special, a radio show out of Knoxville, Tennessee.

In addition to performing and recording with other artists, Larry has been called on by numerous musicians to produce their albums. Larry spent some time in August 2000 producing, recording and writing for Charles Lyonhart's album "Down to the Hard Line". He also played on, wrote for and produced an album for "The Dixie Hummingbirds" called "Diamond Jubilation" which was released in July 2003. Garth and Maud Hudson started playing one of Larry's songs that he wrote for The Dixie Hummingbirds' album called "When I Go Away" when they perform live. Most recently, Larry produced his own solo acoustic guitar album. He is currently working on producing an album for Ollabelle.

Over the years, Larry has contributed his talents to several musicals. In 1982, Larry performed in the orchestra for "Alaska, the Musical" playing fiddle, acoustic and electric guitar, pedal steel and banjo. It played at the Victoria Theatre in Santa Barbara, California from April 8th - April 22, 1982. The book was written by James Bartlett, the music and lyrics were composed by Douglas Herring, and the musical was directed by Michael Quijada and produced by Reinhold Sommerstedt.
Larry also performed in the orchestra for "Big River" in 1985 and "Rhythm Ranch" in 1989. In addition, he played pedal steel guitar and fiddle for the entire several year run of "The Will Rogers Follies" which opened on broadway in New York City on May 1, 1991.

In the 1980s, Larry worked with Pat Cannon's Foot and Fiddle Dance Company playing guitar and fiddle.
In addition, Larry has appeared with Kinky Friedman a few times on Don Imus' radio show, and with Cyndi Lauper on Howard Stern's radio show in 1995.

Larry was born and raised in New York City. He is a self taught musician, never having had a formal lesson on any instrument. (Larry has one brother, Bill, who is also musically inclined. Bill's band is called Anegada.) According to Larry's mom, Maggie, Larry's first guitar was a $12.95 Sears and Roebucks guitar. She has been quoted as saying, "When Larry was around 10 years old, we lived in a small apartment in New York City. Larry would listen to the Beatles on the turntable, teach himself to play along, and then call me into the room and say, 'Hey...ma...come and listen to this.'" While growing up, Maggie says of her son, "He never took himself (his natural talent) seriously." Maggie, while supporting Larry's talent and career choice, met some of his friends along the way. One friend, Julie Miller, wrote a song for Larry's mom, appropriately titled "Maggie", which can be found on Julie's album Broken Things. Maggie met Julie back in the early 80s when they gathered at a country/western club called "City Limits" located at Sheridan Square in New York City.

One of Larry's first bands was called "Cottonmouth" where Larry contributed vocals, banjo, guitar, fiddle and mandolin. Dennis Blair was also a member of this group. Dennis now is a stand up comedian who tours regularly as an opening act for George Carlin. Their music was described as blue grass/county/rock. "Cottonmouth" performed at York College in New York City in 1972 where they were the previous year's talent contest winners and where it only cost 50 cents to see the performance! During the summer of '72, "Cottonmouth" gigged at the Long Island Potato in Westhampton Beach.
Although Larry spent some time in Mississippi and California playing gigs in his early career, he eventually returned to New York City. In the late 70s, he regularly played steel guitar with Kinky Friedman at the "Lone Star Cafe". Kinky mentions Larry in 3 of his books: "A Case of Lone Star", "Musical Chairs" and "Blast From The Past". Larry would also play steel or fiddle with local bands at "City Limits". In the late 70s, Larry joined an electric country bluegrass band fronted by John Herald . In addition, Larry played in a band with Dennis Blair in the late 70s called "Nightlife" along with Billy and Bruce Lang. Larry would regularly sub for the steel guitarist in another band Billy and Bruce Lang had called "The Dixie Doughboys", a Western Swing band formed around 1980. It was during this time that he met and worked with Jim Lauderdale, Buddy and Julie Miller, Lincoln Schleifer, John Leventhal, Soozie Tyrell, Tony Garnier and Shawn Colvin in various clubs (in various bands) in New York City. He joined the Buddy Miller Band in 1980 (along with Julie Griffin Miller). They had regular gigs at the "Lone Star Cafe" and "City Limits". Later, when Buddy left, this band emerged into the Shawn Colvin Band. (An article by Barry Mazor on the Buddy Miller/Shawn Colvin bands working in New York City circa 1978-80 came out in The Journal of Country Music Volume 24.1, published by the Country Music Foundation and available via the Country Music Hall of Fame website.) Later on in the early 80s, Larry played with a musician named Tommie Joe White, and he also played in Doug Sahm's band (The Sir Douglas Quintet). He has also performed with many others including David Johansen, Marc Cohn, and Bob Belden, and he's played with many other bands, including the Greg Trooper Band, Floyd Domino's western swing band (with Tony Garnier), and the Happy Traum Band.

Larry was also a member of Woodstock Mountains Revue, a unique folk group that featured Artie & Happy Traum, Pat Alger, Jim Rooney, Bill Keith, John Herald and John Sebastian. Guest artists like Maria Muldaur, Rory Block, Eric Andersen, Paul Butterfield and Paul Siebel joined the group for recordings. The Revue recorded 5 classic albums for Rounder Records, and although Rounder allowed over 50 of their tracks to go out-of-print, the band is widely considered one of the premier folk groups of the time.

"But by and large, they're an engaging and multitalented group-especially Larry Campbell,
who shifts off effortlessly on pedal steel guitar, electric guitar, fiddle, mandolin and banjo-and the basic level of instrumental work is off-handedly high. Add to that Mr. Herald's
infallible good spirits and you have a set that is never less than pleasing."