Rather than just being backing musicians, they all formed the band Help Yourself.
He is known for his particularly aggressive spoken word delivery, and often performs with hand drums or other backing musicians.
The group became his backing musicians for a surprise performance of "Wonderful Tonight" during their set.
Through numerous personnel changes, the backing musicians have totaled about 29 persons.
Van Ronk features some of his most elaborate recordings with many backing musicians.
They performed without any backing musicians and played all the instruments themselves.
Sheridan later made more recordings with different backing musicians, resulting in some debate over which songs the Beatles are on.
Comstock continued to perform on such tours, both with his own band and as a backing musician, until the late 1990s.
The same is true of the backing musicians who have just drifted to their respective microphones.
Michael Jackson reportedly paid a backing musician £1 million for playing on his last tour.