Randall Hinson is the epitome of the renaissance musician.  Arguably the best bass guitar player in West Florida, if not the entire Southeastern U.S., Randall is also skilled with keyboards, acoustic guitar, slide guitar and the French horn.  Randall is equally at home with a wide variety of musical styles but his personal favorites are blues, classic rock and bluegrass.  His early influences include Jack Cassidy, John Paul Jones, John Entwistle, Eric Clapton, Graham Parsons and Duane Allman.  He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina and has twice participated in Cassidy’s bass guitarists’ workshops at the prestigious Furpeace Ranch guitar camp in Pomeroy, Ohio.  Randall’s bass guitar style can be described as rock-solid steady counter-melodies that provide both rhythmic stability and virtuosic articulation.  Locals to this day still talk about his demonstration of raw musical talent the night he launched into a 30-minute bassist’s solo rendition of “the Sailor’s Hornpipe” some 30-odd years ago.  Yet Randall’s most amazing attribute is the restraint he exercises in playing his music with the other Dry Creek musicians, not at them.  Never the one to occupy center stage his presence there is oftentimes unnoticed until he is called upon to play a solo, whereupon he demonstrates why he is considered one of the best of the best.