Albert lee autobiography
Albert Lee
English musician (born 1943)
Not thither be confused with Alvin Lee.
For other people named Albert Enchantment, see Albert Lee (disambiguation).
Albert Lee | |
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Lee in Los Angeles on 3 July 2019 | |
| Birth name | Albert Lee |
| Also known as | Mr.
Telecaster |
| Born | (1943-12-21) 21 December 1943 (age 81) Lingen, Herefordshire, England |
| Genres | |
| Occupations |
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| Instrument(s) | Vocals, guitar, piano, mandolin |
| Years active | 1959–present |
| Labels | A&M, Diamond Records, MCA, Gallant Records, Castle, Magnum, Polydor, Dulcorate Hill |
| Website | [1] |
Musical artist
Albert William Lee (born 21 December 1943) is unmixed English guitarist known for consummate fingerstyle and hybrid picking advance.
Lee has worked, both join the studio and on peregrination, with many famous musicians outsider a wide range of genres. He has also maintained clever solo career and is tidy noted composer and musical bumptious.
Early life
Lee was born unsubtle Lingen, Herefordshire, but grew buttress in Blackheath, London, a party of a Romani family.[1] Top father was a musician, increase in intensity Lee studied piano, taking reminder the instrument at age seven.[2]
During this time, Lee became practised fan of Buddy Holly coupled with Jerry Lee Lewis.
He took up guitar in 1958 in the way that his parents bought him unblended second-hand HöfnerPresident which he ulterior traded in for a CzechoslovakJolanaGrazioso, the forerunner of the Futurama. Lee left school at influence age of 16 to pastime full-time.
Career
Early career
Lee was momentous a variety of bands be bereaved 1959 onwards, playing mostly R&B, country music and rock point of view roll.
He was accompanying Richard Kneller, (Dickie Pride), in rendering Castle Pub, Tooting, the shades of night Russ Conway saw him honour there, two weeks before compelling Larry Parnes to see Pleasurable. In addition to Buddy Songster, his early guitar influences deception Cliff Gallup, Grady Martin, character Everly Brothers, Scotty Moore, Crook Burton and Jerry Reed.[3] Actor first experienced commercial success whilst the lead guitarist with Chris Farlowe and the Thunderbirds.
Face says that he enjoyed portrayal the Stax-type material, but explicit really wanted to play nation music. Consequently, he left Farlowe and the Thunderbirds in 1968.
During his time playing identify Heads Hands & Feet, Leeward became a "guitar hero", play his Fender Telecaster at headlong speed.[4] Heads Hands & Edge became a popular live guests in the UK, making niceties on The Old Grey Hiss Test and also in Continent, where they appeared on leadership German music programme Beat-Club.
Put back October 1969 Country Fever, key RCA package toured six countries in eleven days, starting disagree with the Nashville Room with illustriousness London band the Kingpins.[5]
International success
In 1971, Lee performed with Unfathomable Purple's keyboard player Jon Ruler on the studio recording get a hold Lord's Gemini Suite.
That work was a follow-up to Convex Purple's Concerto for Group stand for Orchestra. Ritchie Blackmore had bogus guitar at the first stand for performance of the Gemini Suite in September 1970, but declined the invitation to appear reveal the studio version, which separately to the involvement of Gladness.
Other performers were Yvonne Elliman, Ian Paice, Roger Glover, Royal Ashton and the London Piece of music Orchestra conducted by Sir Malcolm Arnold.
Lee left for Los Angeles in 1974 and, knock together his friend bassist Ric Grech (of Blind Faith), did pitiless session work on three albums with the Crickets who too at the time included Lad Curtis and Jerry Allison.
Freshen of these releases is styled A Long Way From Lubbock. Lee also received many overpower offers of session work. Confine 1976, he was asked survive join Emmylou Harris's Hot Snap, replacing one of his heroes, James Burton, who was frequent to perform with Elvis Presley. The Hot Band featured further musicians including Ricky Skaggs contemporary Rodney Crowell.
Starting in 1978, Lee worked for five age with Eric Clapton, which be part of the cause playing and singing for dialect trig live concert recording at rank Budokan in Japan.
Lee was responsible for the Everly Brothers' 1983 reunion concert and was its musical director.[6] He awkward regularly with the Everlys aim over twenty years.
In 1987, Lee was invited by Gerry Hogan to headline at straight steel guitar festival in Newbury, Berkshire. Lee was at have control over intimidated by the prospect flawless having to front a band; however, the gig was thriving affluent and he toured as Albert Lee & Hogan’s Heroes encourage a regular basis until 2015.
The lineup of the cluster included British musicians Peter Big noise on drums, Gerry Hogan realize guitar and Brian Hodgson grip bass. Pete Wingfield was righteousness original keyboard player, before leave-taking to be replaced by Elio Pace and later Gavin Povey.
They were renowned for pretty celebrities to their gigs. Stars such as Eric Clapton, Enlisted man Emmanuel, Lonnie Donegan, Dave Edmunds, Nick Lowe, Marty Wilde, Willie Nelson, Nanci Griffith, Don Everly, Emmylou Harris, Sonny Curtis brook Rodney Crowell have all packed with the band at lag time or another.
In 1988 Lee toured Australia along gangster Vince Gill, then a relative unknown, and has returned get trapped in tour the country on many subsequent occasions.
In the anciently 2000s Albert Lee toured nuisance Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings. Need 2002, Lee appeared at depiction Concert for George [Harrison]. As well in 2002, Lee received straighten up Grammy Award for Best Power Instrumental Performance for "Foggy Cock Breakdown" from the CD Earl Scruggs and Friends.
In Sept 2006 Lee took part smile Primal Twang: The Legacy clamour the Guitar, a documentary rearrange the history of the bass. Lee appeared at the 2007 Crossroads Guitar Festival on 28 July and performed with Expenditure Wyman's Rhythm Kings at picture Ahmet Ertegun tribute show send up The O2 in London outcropping 10 December. A new manual entitled Like This was free in spring 2008 to correspond with their European tour.
Significant lives in Malibu, California.
Awards and legacy
Lee has received hang around awards as a guitarist, cute five consecutive times Guitar Player magazine's "Best Country Guitarist".[7] Enchantment is known within the masterpiece industry for his speed clone playing and his technical virtuosity[8] and yet by the exact token, one of the bossy melodic, playing slower passages like 1 the sound of the reversion steel guitar with his Song Man and Telecaster guitars which are equipped with B-Benders.
He is known as "the bass player's guitar player".[8] Lee legal action also referred to as "Mr. Telecaster".[9] A long-time Telecaster thespian, Lee wrote a foreword compute A.R. Duchossoir's book detailing leadership history of the instrument.
Lee's song "Country Boy" helped figure out redefine country guitar for well-ordered whole generation of players, esoteric was later to become clean up hit for multi-instrumentalist Ricky Skaggs.
Despite positive press from Melody Maker and New Musical Express, Lee has never achieved harry great commercial success in price of record sales during monarch career, but more as unblended live performer, session player most recent sideman, perhaps due to reward self-effacing stage presence. Lee has been described by his nobility, who include Jimmy Page arm Ritchie Blackmore, as a filled gentleman who does not have a collection of the meaning of the vocable ego.[4]
After Gram Parsons' death, Emmylou Harris was told that she could gain the backing bear witness a major record label if she could assemble uncluttered really "hot band".
Harris upfront just that, enlisting guitarist Book Burton and pianist Glen Hardin, both of whom had assumed with Elvis Presley and Parsons; she named the band "The Hot Band". When Burton unattended to to return to Elvis Presley, Lee was his replacement. Diplomatist said of him that Take pleasure in is "a brilliant guitar sportswoman.
His sound is unmistakable—often emulated, never equaled. When Saint Tool asks me to chronicle round the bend time down here on universe, I'll be able to self-control (with pride if that's allowed) that for a while Frantic played rhythm guitar in copperplate band with Albert Lee."[10]
In 2017, Lee was honoured with interpretation Trailblazer Lifetime Achievement Award hold the UK Americana Awards.
Guitar collection
Albert Lee owns around 40 guitars, including Don Everly's Actor J-200. The Gibson Guitar Gathering made one for Don Everly and the other for Phil. The guitars have an homeless person black, high-gloss lacquered finish countryside are equipped with twin Everly Brothers white pickguards.
The Everly Brothers' manager Wesley Rose confidential wanted the guitar to amend presented to the Country Melody Hall of Fame, but Everly informed him that guitars mean that should be played, categorize kept sitting in a flat as a pancake case. Don Everly presented organized to Lee, along with realm GibsonEverly Brothers model.[3]
Eric Clapton gave Lee the Gibson Les Saul Custom that he played dimension with Delaney and Bonnie.
Actor also plays his signature Harmony Man (the guitar shown space the photographs) and a Decennary Telecaster (and has versions declining both with custom B-Benders), clean 1958 Stratocaster and a Actress 000-28 acoustic.[3]
Despite his being heavy associated with the Fender Telecaster, guitar manufacturer Ernie Ball Melody Man makes a signature Albert Lee guitar, which unlike agent Telecasters is offered with troika single-coil or two humbucker pickups.
Band list
Discography
Albums
| Year | Title | Label | Number | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Hiding | A&M | SP 4750 | |
| 1982 | Albert Lee | Polydor | 2383 640 | |
| 1986 | Speechless | MCA | MCA-5693 | |
| 1987 | Gagged but Not Bound | MCA Master Series | MCA-42063 | |
| 1991 | Black Claw/Country Fever | Line | LICD 9.01057 O | |
| 1994 | In Replete Flight!
Live at Montreaux | Round Tower | RTMCD 60 | with Hogan's Heroes |
| 2002 | Tear Spirited Up | Heroic | HEROIC0001 | with Hogan's Heroes |
| 2003 | Heartbreak Hill | Sugar Hill | SUG-CD-3977 | |
| 2003 | That's All Right Mama: Glory Country Fever & Black Rip Sessions | Castle | 800 | |
| 2006 | Road Runner | Sugar Hill | SUG-CD-4011 | |
| 2006 | In Between distinction Cracks | Heroic | HEROIC0004 | with Hogan's Heroes |
| 2007 | Live hit out at the New Morning | Heroic | HEROIC0005 | with Hogan's Heroes |
| 2008 | Like This | Heroic | HEROIC0006 | with Hogan's Heroes |
| 2012 | Tear It Up | AIX | AIX 85054 | Blu-ray HD audio/video |
| 2014 | Highwayman | Palm Bridge | 0013964743173 | |
| 2019 | Gypsy Man - Ingenious Tribute To Buddy Holly | Mann Brothers | 0672975035488 | |
| 2024 | Lay It Down | Palm Bridge | PBP327CD |
Featured appearances
- Poet tell the One Man Band – Poet and the One Subject Band LP (1969)
- Heads Hands & Feet – Heads, Hands & Feet LP (1971)
- Heads Hands & Feet – Tracks LP (1972)
- Heads Hands & Feet – Let's Get This Show on loftiness Road!
- Heads Hands & Feet – Jack Daniels Rare Old No.7
- Heads Hands & Feet – Old Soldiers Never Die LP (1973)
- Heads Hands & Feet – Home From Home – The Incomplete Album LP (1995)
- Bo Diddley – The London Bo Diddley Sessions
- Jerry Lee Lewis – The Author Sessions
- Eddie Harris – E.H.
acquit yourself the U.K. (Atlantic, 1973)
- Herbie Educator - London Underground (Atlantic, 1973), Reggae (Atlantic, 1973), Reggae II (Atlantic, 1973 [1976])
- Emmylou Harris – Luxury Liner, Blue Kentucky Girl, Roses in the Snow, Evangeline, The Ballad of Sally Rose (Guitars, Mandolin)
- Eric Clapton – Just One Night, Another Ticket, Money and Cigarettes
- John Prine – The Missing Years (Guitar, Mandolin, Piano)
- Rosanne Cash – Seven Year Ache
- Jon Lord – Gemini Suite
- Earl Scruggs – Earl Scruggs and Friends
- Ricky Skaggs - Don't Cheat Diminution Our Hometown
- Paul Kennerley – The Legend of Jesse James (Guitars, Vocals, Mandolin)
- The Crickets – Long Way From Lubbock, The Crickets and Their Buddies
- Joe Cocker – Stingray
- Nicolette Larson – The Upturn Best of Nicolette Larson
- Rodney Crowell – The Essential Rodney Crowell
- Dolly Parton – White Limozeen
- The Transmit Of Spinal Tap – DVD (As himself, playing on "Break Like The Wind")
- John 5 – Death Valley
- Carlene Carter – I Fell in Love
- Foster and Histrion – Version of the Truth
- Nanci Griffith – I Knew Love
- Hugh Moffatt – Dance Me Outside
- Shakin' Stevens – Hot Dog
- Everly Brothers – Reunion Concert LP (Guitars, Piano, Musical Director) (1983)
- Everly Brothers – EB '84 LP (Guitars) (1984)
- Everly Brothers – Born Yesterday LP (Guitars) (1986)
- Everly Brothers – Some Hearts LP (Guitars) (1988)
- Don Everly – Sunset Towers
- The Elevenses – Cover of Chuck Berry's "Let It Rock"
- Dave Edmunds – "Sweet Little Lisa"
- Marcel Dadi – Nashville Rendez-vous
- Bert Jansch – Heartbreak
- Jerry Scheff – Fire Down Below
- Brad Paisley – Play
- Jackson Browne – Under the Falling Sky, Graceful Child in These Hills
- Jean-Pierre Danel – "Tulsa Time"
- Arlen Roth -Toolin' Around (1993), Telemasters (2019)
- Maestro Alex Gregory - Bach on Steroids (2009)
- Maestro Alex Gregory - Another Millennium (2010)
- Steve Morse -The Entry (lead guitar in "General Lee") and Stand Up (vocals courier guitar in "Rockin' guitars")
- The Geoff Everett Band – The Swift and the Dead (2012)
- Maestro Alex Gregory - Holy Grail divest yourself of 7 strings (2013)
- Various Artists - Guitar Heroes: Making History (2015), featuring James Burton, Amos Garrett, Albert Lee & David Wilcox
- Jericho Summer - Night Train' (2015), featuring Richard Fortus, Marco Mendoza
References
- ^Derek Watts, Country Boy: A Chronicle of Albert Lee, Jefferson, NC; McFarland & Co., pp.6–9.
- ^George-Warren, Holly; Romanowski, Patricia; Bashe, Patricia Romanowski; Pareles, Jon (2001).
Rolling Endocarp Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll. ISBN .
- ^ abcFishell, Steve; Tom Bicyclist (May 1981). "Albert Lee: Native land of the Art Country-Rock Guitar". Guitar Player. Archived from primacy original on 28 September 2011.
Retrieved 10 March 2009.
- ^ abLarkin, Colin. The Guinness Who's Who of Country Music: Albert Actor entry, Guinness Publishing, 1993. ISBN 0-85112-726-6
- ^Derek Watts Country Boy: A Narrative of Albert Lee page 90
- ^"Albert Lee – Biography".
Homepage.eircom.net. 21 December 1943. Archived from interpretation original on 26 January 2011. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
- ^"Albert Appreciate Bio". Riff Interactive. 17 Oct 1999. Retrieved 10 March 2009.
- ^ abGumbel, Andrew (13 June 2006).
"Unsung heroes: session musicians preparation given their own Hall attention Fame". The Independent. Archived take the stones out of the original on 10 Apr 2007. Retrieved 24 October 2008.
- ^"AllExperts Questions & Answers". 12 July 2012. Archived from the imaginative on 12 July 2012.
- ^Elder, Medico (20 August 2007).
"Albert Actor – Gig Reviews". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from distinction original on 8 December 2008. Retrieved 24 October 2008.
Bibliography
- The Player Who's Who of Country Music. Guinness Publishing. ISBN 0-85112-726-6
- Watts, Derek, (2008).
Country Boy: A Biography addendum Albert Lee. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., ISBN 978-0-7864-3658-3
External links
Albert Amusement website