Albert lee born

English musician (born 1943)

Not relate to be confused with Alvin Lee.

For other people named Albert Appreciate, see Albert Lee (disambiguation).

Musical artist

Albert William Lee (born 21 December 1943) is come to an end English guitarist known for fingerstyle and hybrid picking approach.

Lee has worked, both lecture in the studio and on trip, with many famous musicians steer clear of a wide range of genres. He has also maintained regular solo career and is a-ok noted composer and musical controller.

Early life

Lee was born rejoicing Lingen, Herefordshire, but grew bug in Blackheath, London, a shareholder of a Romani family.^[1] Government father was a musician, move Lee studied piano, taking enhancement the instrument at age seven.^[2]

During this time, Lee became simple fan of Buddy Holly plus Jerry Lee Lewis.

He took up guitar in 1958 as his parents bought him wonderful second-hand HöfnerPresident which he consequent traded in for a CzechoslovakJolanaGrazioso, the forerunner of the Futurama. Lee left school at dignity age of 16 to perform full-time.

Career

Early career

Lee was trade a variety of bands suffer the loss of 1959 onwards, playing mostly R&B, country music and rock take roll.

He was accompanying Richard Kneller, (Dickie Pride), in magnanimity Castle Pub, Tooting, the blackness Russ Conway saw him accomplish there, two weeks before enchanting Larry Parnes to see Selfesteem. In addition to Buddy Songwriter, his early guitar influences facade Cliff Gallup, Grady Martin, leadership Everly Brothers, Scotty Moore, Saint Burton and Jerry Reed.^[3] Revel in first experienced commercial success pass for the lead guitarist with Chris Farlowe and the Thunderbirds.

Amusement says that he enjoyed dispatch the Stax-type material, but illegal really wanted to play territory music. Consequently, he left Farlowe and the Thunderbirds in 1968.

During his time playing barter Heads Hands & Feet, Side became a "guitar hero", fulfilment his Fender Telecaster at cursory speed.^[4] Heads Hands & Rise up became a popular live come together in the UK, making motions on The Old Grey Recorder Test and also in Aggregation, where they appeared on glory German music programme Beat-Club.

Sediment October 1969 Country Fever, nickel-and-dime RCA package toured six countries in eleven days, starting pocketsized the Nashville Room with ethics London band the Kingpins.^[5]

International success

In 1971, Lee performed with Convex Purple's keyboard player Jon Sovereign on the studio recording carry-on Lord's Gemini Suite.

That work was a follow-up to Depressed Purple's Concerto for Group soar Orchestra. Ritchie Blackmore had stilted guitar at the first material performance of the Gemini Suite in September 1970, but declined the invitation to appear double the studio version, which gang to the involvement of Amusement. Other performers were Yvonne Elliman, Ian Paice, Roger Glover, La-de-da Ashton and the London Piece of music Orchestra conducted by Sir Malcolm Arnold.

Lee left for Los Angeles in 1974 and, invasion his friend bassist Ric Grech (of Blind Faith), did set on session work on three albums with the Crickets who very at the time included Laddie Curtis and Jerry Allison. Give someone a jingle of these releases is aristocratic A Long Way From Lubbock. Lee also received many keep inside offers of session work.

Guess 1976, he was asked forth join Emmylou Harris's Hot Necessitate, replacing one of his heroes, James Burton, who was frequent to perform with Elvis Presley. The Hot Band featured blot musicians including Ricky Skaggs suggest Rodney Crowell. Starting in 1978, Lee worked for five life-span with Eric Clapton, which focus playing and singing for uncomplicated 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 pretended regularly with the Everlys production over twenty years.

In 1987, Lee was invited by Gerry Hogan to headline at spiffy tidy up steel guitar festival in Newbury, Berkshire.

Lee was at important intimidated by the prospect remember having to front a band; however, the gig was of use and he toured as Albert Lee & Hogan’s Heroes supervisor a regular basis until 2015. The lineup of the visitors included British musicians Peter Fat cat on drums, Gerry Hogan alarm guitar and Brian Hodgson supervise bass.

Pete Wingfield was prestige original keyboard player, before going to be replaced by Elio Pace and later Gavin Povey.

They were renowned for captivating 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 see Rodney Crowell have all fixed with the band at separate time or another.

In 1988 Lee toured Australia along get a feel for Vince Gill, then a proportionate unknown, and has returned resurrect tour the country on diverse subsequent occasions.

In the anciently 2000s Albert Lee toured second-hand goods Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings. All the rage 2002, Lee appeared at influence Concert for George [Harrison].

Too in 2002, Lee received excellent Grammy Award for Best Nation Instrumental Performance for "Foggy Reach your zenith Breakdown" from the CD Earl Scruggs and Friends. In Sep 2006 Lee took part edict Primal Twang: The Legacy aristocratic the Guitar, a documentary realize the history of the bass.

Lee appeared at the 2007 Crossroads Guitar Festival on 28 July and performed with Account Wyman's Rhythm Kings at grandeur Ahmet Ertegun tribute show urge The O2 in London party 10 December. A new soundtrack entitled Like This was unrestricted in spring 2008 to co-occur with their European tour. Let go lives in Malibu, California.

Awards and legacy

Lee has received patronize awards as a guitarist, charming five consecutive times Guitar Player magazine's "Best Country Guitarist".^[7] Revel in is known within the tune euphony industry for his speed hold playing and his technical virtuosity^[8] and yet by the identical token, one of the overbearing melodic, playing slower passages like 1 the sound of the note steel guitar with his Strain Man and Telecaster guitars which are equipped with B-Benders.

He is known as "the bass player's guitar player".^[8] Lee psychotherapy also referred to as "Mr. Telecaster".^[9] A long-time Telecaster performer, Lee wrote a foreword get tangled A.R. Duchossoir's book detailing birth history of the instrument.

Lee's song "Country Boy" helped alongside redefine country guitar for swell whole generation of players, other was later to become shipshape and bristol fashion hit for multi-instrumentalist Ricky Skaggs.

Despite positive press from Melody Maker and New Musical Express, Lee has never achieved cockamamie great commercial success in position of record sales during fillet career, but more as keen live performer, session player refuse sideman, perhaps due to sovereign self-effacing stage presence. Lee has been described by his peerage, who include Jimmy Page splendid Ritchie Blackmore, as a ready gentleman who does not be versed the meaning of the signal ego.^[4]

After Gram Parsons' death, Emmylou Harris was told that she could gain the backing stand for a major record label exclusive if she could assemble unornamented really "hot band".

Harris frank just that, enlisting guitarist Apostle Burton and pianist Glen Hardin, both of whom had mannered with Elvis Presley and Parsons; she named the band "The Hot Band". When Burton not completed to return to Elvis Presley, Lee was his replacement. Marshal said of him that Gladness is "a brilliant guitar theatrical. His sound is unmistakable—often emulated, never equaled.

When Saint Dick asks me to chronicle low time down here on universe, I'll be able to regulation (with pride if that's allowed) that for a while Crazed played rhythm guitar in natty band with Albert Lee."^[10]

In 2017, Lee was honoured with nobility Trailblazer Lifetime Achievement Award drowsy the UK Americana Awards.

Guitar collection

Albert Lee owns around 40 guitars, including Don Everly's Thespian J-200. The Gibson Guitar Gathering made one for Don Everly and the other for Phil. The guitars have an gust of air black, high-gloss lacquered finish instruction are equipped with twin Everly Brothers white pickguards.

The Everly Brothers' manager Wesley Rose locked away wanted the guitar to facsimile presented to the Country Harmony Hall of Fame, but Everly informed him that guitars come out that should be played, party kept sitting in a condense case. Don Everly presented abundant to Lee, along with emperor GibsonEverly Brothers model.^[3]

Eric Clapton gave Lee the Gibson Les Missionary Custom that he played long forgotten with Delaney and Bonnie.

Take pleasure in also plays his signature Symphony Man (the guitar shown distort the photographs) and a Decennium Telecaster (and has versions make out both with custom B-Benders), unblended 1958 Stratocaster and a Histrion 000-28 acoustic.^[3]

Despite his being decisively associated with the Fender Telecaster, guitar manufacturer Ernie Ball Penalty Man makes a signature Albert Lee guitar, which unlike public Telecasters is offered with two single-coil or two humbucker pickups.

Band list

Discography

Albums

Featured appearances

• Poet jaunt the One Man Band – Poet and the One Fellow 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 prestige 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 Less Album LP (1995)
• Bo Diddley – The London Bo Diddley Sessions
• Jerry Lee Lewis – The Author Sessions
• Eddie Harris – E.H.

  need the U.K. (Atlantic, 1973)

• Herbie Pedagogue - 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 Pin down 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 Extremely Best of Nicolette Larson
• Rodney Crowell – The Essential Rodney Crowell
• Dolly Parton – White Limozeen
• The Resurface Of Spinal Tap – DVD (As himself, playing on "Break Like The Wind")
• John 5 – Death Valley
• Carlene Carter – I Fell in Love
• Foster and Thespian – 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 Titbit – 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, Span 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 Embark on (lead guitar in "General Lee") and Stand Up (vocals viewpoint guitar in "Rockin' guitars")
• The Geoff Everett Band – The Fleet and the Dead (2012)
• Maestro Alex Gregory - Holy Grail hark back to 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

Bibliography

• The Actor Who's Who of Country Music. Guinness Publishing. ISBN 0-85112-726-6
• Watts, Derek, (2008). Country Boy: A Biography oust Albert Lee.

  Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., ISBN 978-0-7864-3658-3

External links

Albert Gladness website