Immediate Family is a multi-award-winning documentary from Denny Tedesco (The Wrecking Crew), that tells the fascinating story of this wonderful group of musicians who played with some of the world’s most iconic singers and bands and made a huge impact on the sounds we still hear today.
Join Immediate Family for a toe-tapping, joy inducing music documentary that takes us behind the scenes of these unsung, true music legends.
Carole King ‘This film is a window into the lives of my musical brothers, whose gold standard is to make sure that every song they play on comes out even better than the songwriter imagined. Now they’re doing that for their own songs, and this film tells their story beautifully’
Stevie Nicks ‘Waddy and I sometimes, I think we’re the same person, except from California and New York, because we are like two sides of a coin and that’s why we have been working together for so long. Because I would never want anybody else to be my musical director, or my lead guitarist, because Waddy makes me feel safe and always has in any situation, no matter how frightening the situation, as long as he’s standing next to me, I know I’m safe’
James Taylor ‘One of the things about the camaraderie was the knowledge of what it’s like to make music together and to collaborate. on something like that. Like put down a tune and everybody work together as a sort of team or a community on this tune. It’s a bond, it’s such a special thing to be able to do. “The creative input of these session guys cannot be overstated. It can’t be overstated. I mean it just can’t be overstated’
Lyle Lovett ‘Seeing those names on other recordings and thinking that, ‘Wow, these are the guys!’ And in a way these new independent players that were brought in by new artists like Carole King in those days, in a way the baton was handed to them and they became the new Wrecking Crew’
David Crosby ‘A’, those cats are fucking good, and “B”, they’re talking to each other.” There was chemistry. There’s two universal languages that nobody needs to be taught and everybody gets them, music and math. It was unmistakable and it was one of the things that made everybody fall in love with those guys and that was they had respect for each other and, along with the talent, they had a gift for communicating with each other’
















