I-95 Drive Home Mystery Artist [VIDEO]

Tonight’s featured artist said that the thought of getting back on stage wasn't really on his radar until a British radio DJ started pushing the idea on the air and his listeners responded so favorable that our guy decided to give it another try.  Think you know who he might be??

It was back in October of last year Rolling Stone sat down with Jeff Lynne and told this story:

"It seemed like a permanent death sentence for ELO, and in the aftermath, Lynne returned to his day job as a record producer, but slowly he began seeing a groundswell of interest in his old band and offers began coming in. Getting the band back onto the stage still remained a distant thought until BBC DJ Chris Evans began pushing the issue on the air. His listeners responded in such overwhelming numbers that Lynne agreed to give it a try."

The magazine also reported this was not the first try:

"This wasn't the first time Lynne attempted to resurrect Electric Light Orchestra. In the summer of 2001, he released Zoom (the first ELO album since 1986's Balance of Power) and booked an ambitious arena tour to promote it. He taped a VH1 Storytellers concert and a PBS concert, but ticket sales were so dismal, the entire tour was canceled. "That showed me I probably shouldn't even bother," Lynne says. "My manager spared me the details of everything, but I wasn't too demoralized because I got some tunes in films and I just love recording."

Jeff Lynne's ELO will be performing at Radio City Music Hall in NYC this fall on September 16.

Here is tonight's featured song: