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Name
  
Tracy Wormworth

Siblings
  
James Wormworth

Role
  
Bass guitarist

Music group
  
The B-52's (Since 1976)


Albums
  
Cosmic Thing, Bouncing off the Satellites, The B‑52’s, Funplex, Wild Planet

Similar People
  
Sterling Campbell, James Wormworth, Keith Strickland, Fred Schneider, Cindy Wilson

Tracy Wormworth of B52's guitar tech talking Apex Strings


Tracy Ann Wormworth is a bass guitarist working in the music and television industry in the United States. She is the sister of The Conan O'Brien Show drummer James Wormworth, daughter of jazz drummer Jimmy Wormworth and sister of vocalist Mary Wormworth.

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Wormworth is currently playing with The B-52s, a band that she has recorded and toured with for many years. She appears on the sixth studio album by The B-52s, Good Stuff, released in 1992, and recorded on the band's soundtrack "The Flintstones". By 2008, she was listed as a full band member on their album Funplex and is featured in the band's recently released live DVD recording, With the Wild Crowd! Live in Athens, GA.

Her career began as a member of the New Wave band The Waitresses. Dave Hofstra was the bass player on the first album, Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful? (even though Wormworth's picture appears in the photo on the back cover of the album). Wormworth joined the band after he quit and stayed until the band broke up in 1984. Her memorable bass line for the band's "Christmas Wrapping" is a favorite amongst many bass players and fans.

Wormworth has served as a touring bass player for Sting and Wayne Shorter, Cyndi Lauper, Phyllis Hyman, jazz great Regina Carter, vocal phenom Rachelle Ferrell and Joan Osborne, as well as the B-52s. She was part of the house band on The Rosie O'Donnell Show, where she performed with everyone from Little Richard to Liza Minnelli. She appears in videos with The B-52s and Sting. She also recorded on the Lena Horne album We'll Be Together Again (1994), I Ain't Movin' (1994) by singer-songwriter Des'ree, and Head over Heels (1995) by Paula Abdul as well as Regina Carter' s "Something For Grace".

Songs

Love Shack
Rock Lobster
Private Idaho
Planet Claire
Dance This Mess Around
Legal Tender
Roam
Glove Slap
52 Girls
Deadbeat Club
The Flintstones
Dirty Back Road
Give Me Back My Man
Channel Z
Revolution Earth
Girl From Ipanema Goes to Greenland
53 Miles West of Venus
Party Out of Bounds
Is That You Mo-Dean?
6060-842
Song for a Future Generation
There’s a Moon in the Sky
Don't Worry
Strobe Light
Funplex
Whammy Kiss
Devil in My Car
The Bedrock Twitch
She Brakes for Rainbows
Trism
Queen of Las Vegas
Debbie

References

Tracy Wormworth Wikipedia