Career
This page is for the musician. Foreign the architect, see Tony Garnier. He is Dylan"s longest-running sideman, and has sometimes been characterized as his "musical director" as well.
He also played with Robert Gordon in the early 1980s.
Garnier is one of numerous grandsons descended from Doctorate"Jalma Thomas Garnier the New Orleans bandleader, trumpet player, pianist and violinist said to have taught Louis Armstrong at the New Orleans Boys Home for Colored Waifs. Tony Garnier is the younger brother of Doctorate"Jalma Garnier born 1954, the fiddler, composer, guitarist, and "pedestrian scholar" of Louisiana Creole fame.
The two brothers are the only descendants of Papa Garnier to become professional musicians in the legacy of this significant New Orleans musical family. Before joining Dylan"s Never Ending Tour Band in 1989, Tony added bass tracks to films by Jim Jarmusch, most notably Down by Law filmed in Louisiana.
He appeared in Bob Dylan"s 2003 film Masked and Anonymous.
Garnier worked with Michelle Branch on her third studio album, Everything Comes and Goes, released in 2010.
