This article is not about Crystal Bowersox but more about MamaSox talking about her bassist Frankie May on www.toledoblade.com. Here I copy/pasted a selection from this article. If you want to read the entire and in-depth article, you may copy/paste this URL in a new browser – http://lnk.co/INMBT | Frankie May is a lot of things to a lot of people. Crystal Bowersox calls him “my right-hand man, but he stands on my left.” As a bass player, he’s a living, breathing metronome and perpetual keeper of time. To the cadre of talented young Toledo musicians he plays with, he’s a mentor and behind-the-scenes leader. To the general public, or at least the ones who discovered him with Bowersox on American Idol a couple of years ago, he’s that muscular bald dude who always plays with her. But talk to May if you’re not a close friend, or just observe him at a gig, and he reveals very little. He’s friendly and polite, but there’s a quiet intensity and privacy that bubbles under the surface. If he has a goofy side, he doesn’t show it in public.
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