Jim started playing the drums in 1967 thanks to his cousin Lowell. After playing in neighborhood bands, Jim started with a band by the name of High Yield when he was in high school. That band saw most of the corners of Washington and everywhere in between in two years.

After getting married, he kept up playing as much as possible with bands like The Authentics and James Street. He also had a twenty year stint playing bass for a christian group called One Voice. Then, while getting his car worked on at a local garage/recording studio, he was asked if he would like to play country and was soon introduced to Duncan Shadrack in 2001.

While working on and off for Duncan, Jim hooked up with Joe Slick and the rest is history. This has given him the opportunity to open for Billy Ray Cyrus, Sammy Kershaw and many more. He is looking forward to the blending of his two buddies to be part of a great music experience. 
 

 Johnny Ummel (Pedal Steel, Fiddle)

Johnny says "I am a native Washintonian but my grandad in Lubbock, Texas was an old-time fiddle player and gave me a fiddle when I was 7, I still have it. I graduated high school and went to college just long enough to know that what I wanted to do was play music.I wound up in Spokane playing in a country rock band called Saloony Toons.

I really loved playing music. I had taken up the pedal steel guitar in addition to guitar and fiddle. I found my services in demand from various country and country rock bands over the next several years. In the early eighties I was offered the job playing steel with Gerry Andal's Roughrider Band, a position I would hold for the next 15 years. This was really a great time filled with great opportunities.

After having played full time, 5 or 6 nights a week, for more than 20 years, I decided to put music on the back burner for a while. I studied electronics and have worked for several years in that field. But someone once told me that music is in my blood and that can't change. I guess she was right because I am having a blast playing with Joe & Duncan & the guys, I still love playing music."

Lyle Ronglien is a performing and recording artist, audio engineer, and guitar instructor. As well as producing music for TV, radio, and films, he records music for local, national and international artists. Besides performing and recording, Lyle teaches guitar and bass guitar in his home studio and on the web. He has taught guitar for the Experience Music Project in Seattle, The National Guitar Institute, several local college institutes around the pacific northwest, and thousands of students all over the world.

When Lyle is not performing with "Bullet Creek", he is the guitarist and lead vocalist in his own bands: "Franks In Opera", "Highway 9", "Bubbles & Fog", and "The King County Outlaws".

Jeff Lorenz, who became blind at the age of six months, was thrown every kind of noise making toy and instrument available as he was growing up. His first bass, was actually a Hondo II nylon string acoustic guitar, with the high E and the B strings removed and the remaining strings tuned down an octave. It began there and he’s never looked back.  Jeff’s first paid gigs were playing in the orchestra pit for various musicals with the Private Industry Council and the Stockton Civic Theater in California. Jeff has played with blues and rock bands throughout northern California and Washington and recorded four unsigned albums. He has played the Stockton Blues Festival with The Studebaker Blues Band and opened for Tommy Castro. "Bullet Creek" is Jeff’s first Country Band.

Growing up in a home filled with music, Joe’s father was a professional musician whom had hosted jam sessions in their home most every weekend. Joe, dreaming of being a musician, learned to play the guitar at a very early age and has been singing his entire life.