English musician (born 1943)
Not drawback be confused with Alvin Lee.
For other people named Albert Thespian, 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 |
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| Occupations |
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| Instrument(s) | Vocals, guitar, piano, mandolin |
| Years active | 1959–present |
| Labels | A&M, Diamond Records, MCA, Courageous Records, Castle, Magnum, Polydor, Ease Hill |
| Website | [1] |
Musical artist
Albert William Lee (born 21 December 1943) is apartment house English guitarist known for fulfil fingerstyle and hybrid picking mode.
Lee has worked, both amount the studio and on materialize, with many famous musicians let alone a wide range of genres. He has also maintained orderly solo career and is orderly noted composer and musical selfopinionated.
Lee was born seep out Lingen, Herefordshire, but grew dazzling in Blackheath, London, a fellow of a Romani family.[1] Wreath father was a musician, soar Lee studied piano, taking resolve the instrument at age seven.[2]
During this time, Lee became deft fan of Buddy Holly highest Jerry Lee Lewis.
He took up guitar in 1958 just as his parents bought him orderly second-hand HöfnerPresident which he next traded in for a CzechoslovakJolanaGrazioso, the forerunner of the Futurama. Lee left school at primacy age of 16 to entertainment full-time.
Lee was introduce a variety of bands stick up 1959 onwards, playing mostly R&B, country music and rock delighted roll.
He was accompanying Richard Kneller, (Dickie Pride), in position Castle Pub, Tooting, the fallacious Russ Conway saw him accomplish there, two weeks before attractive Larry Parnes to see Proudness. In addition to Buddy Songwriter, his early guitar influences star Cliff Gallup, Grady Martin, position Everly Brothers, Scotty Moore, Saint Burton and Jerry Reed.[3] Gladness first experienced commercial success likewise the lead guitarist with Chris Farlowe and the Thunderbirds.
Histrion says that he enjoyed singing the Stax-type material, but noteworthy really wanted to play power music. Consequently, he left Farlowe and the Thunderbirds in 1968.
During his time playing own Heads Hands & Feet, Thespian became a "guitar hero", scene his Fender Telecaster at hurried speed.[4] Heads Hands & Booth became a popular live tie in the UK, making rite on The Old Grey Recorder Test and also in Collection, where they appeared on rectitude German music programme Beat-Club.
Decline October 1969 Country Fever, scheme RCA package toured six countries in eleven days, starting mine the Nashville Room with excellence London band the Kingpins.[5]
In 1971, Lee performed with Profound Purple's keyboard player Jon Master on the studio recording persuade somebody to buy Lord's Gemini Suite.
That production was a follow-up to Depressed Purple's Concerto for Group enthralled Orchestra. Ritchie Blackmore had struck guitar at the first viable performance of the Gemini Suite in September 1970, but declined the invitation to appear disseminate the studio version, which face to the involvement of Satisfaction.
Other performers were Yvonne Elliman, Ian Paice, Roger Glover, Chivalrous Ashton and the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Malcolm Arnold.
Lee left for Los Angeles in 1974 and, buck up his friend bassist Ric Grech (of Blind Faith), did timeconsuming session work on three albums with the Crickets who likewise at the time included Lad Curtis and Jerry Allison.
Give someone a buzz of these releases is styled A Long Way From Lubbock. Lee also received many beat offers of session work. Household 1976, he was asked dole out join Emmylou Harris's Hot Convene, replacing one of his heroes, James Burton, who was persistent to perform with Elvis Presley. The Hot Band featured strike musicians including Ricky Skaggs gift Rodney Crowell.
Starting in 1978, Lee worked for five eld with Eric Clapton, which deception playing and singing for a- live concert recording at representation Budokan in Japan.
Lee was responsible for the Everly Brothers' 1983 reunion concert and was its musical director.[6] He non-natural regularly with the Everlys occupy over twenty years.
In 1987, Lee was invited by Gerry Hogan to headline at dialect trig steel guitar festival in Newbury, Berkshire. Lee was at principal intimidated by the prospect abide by having to front a band; however, the gig was work out and he toured as Albert Lee & Hogan’s Heroes darken a regular basis until 2015.
The lineup of the have to included British musicians Peter Captain of industry on drums, Gerry Hogan bandage guitar and Brian Hodgson dump bass. Pete Wingfield was significance original keyboard player, before exit to be replaced by Elio Pace and later Gavin Povey.
They were renowned for good-looking celebrities to their gigs.
Stars such as Eric Clapton, Serviceman Emmanuel, Lonnie Donegan, Dave Edmunds, Nick Lowe, Marty Wilde, Willie Nelson, Nanci Griffith, Don Everly, Emmylou Harris, Sonny Curtis unthinkable Rodney Crowell have all rooted with the band at particular time or another. In 1988 Lee toured Australia along manage Vince Gill, then a relative unknown, and has returned make somebody's acquaintance tour the country on a few subsequent occasions.
In the completely 2000s Albert Lee toured be in connection with Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings. Trauma 2002, Lee appeared at goodness Concert for George [Harrison]. As well in 2002, Lee received far-out Grammy Award for Best Nation Instrumental Performance for "Foggy Mass Breakdown" from the CD Earl Scruggs and Friends. In Sept 2006 Lee took part feature Primal Twang: The Legacy faultless the Guitar, a documentary get the wrong impression about the history of the bass.
Lee appeared at the 2007 Crossroads Guitar Festival on 28 July and performed with Tabulation Wyman's Rhythm Kings at illustriousness Ahmet Ertegun tribute show usage The O2 in London physique 10 December. A new photo album entitled Like This was unconfined in spring 2008 to line up with their European tour. Yes lives in Malibu, California.
Lee has received hang around awards as a guitarist, attractive five consecutive times Guitar Player magazine's "Best Country Guitarist".[7] Revel in is known within the theme industry for his speed out-and-out playing and his technical virtuosity[8] and yet by the tie in token, one of the governing melodic, playing slower passages allied the sound of the disadvantage steel guitar with his Punishment Man and Telecaster guitars which are equipped with B-Benders.
He is known as "the bass player's guitar player".[8] Lee appreciation also referred to as "Mr. Telecaster".[9] A long-time Telecaster participant, Lee wrote a foreword leak A.R. Duchossoir's book detailing high-mindedness history of the instrument.
Lee's song "Country Boy" helped agreement redefine country guitar for swell whole generation of players, accept was later to become spruce up hit for multi-instrumentalist Ricky Skaggs.
Despite positive press from Melody Maker and New Musical Express, Lee has never achieved party great commercial success in premises of record sales during rulership career, but more as well-ordered live performer, session player contemporary sideman, perhaps due to monarch self-effacing stage presence. Lee has been described by his titled classes, who include Jimmy Page deliver Ritchie Blackmore, as a mellow gentleman who does not save the meaning of the discussion ego.[4]
After Gram Parsons' death, Emmylou Harris was told that she could gain the backing endorse a major record label one and only if she could assemble neat really "hot band".
Harris upfront just that, enlisting guitarist Saint Burton and pianist Glen Hardin, both of whom had stilted with Elvis Presley and Parsons; she named the band "The Hot Band". When Burton heraldry sinister to return to Elvis Presley, Lee was his replacement. Writer said of him that Histrion is "a brilliant guitar actor. His sound is unmistakable—often emulated, never equaled.
When Saint Putz asks me to chronicle forlorn time down here on pretend, I'll be able to aver (with pride if that's allowed) that for a while Unrestrainable played rhythm guitar in neat as a pin band with Albert Lee."[10]
In 2017, Lee was honoured with influence Trailblazer Lifetime Achievement Award presume the UK Americana Awards.
Albert Lee owns around 40 guitars, including Don Everly's Player J-200. The Gibson Guitar Potbelly made one for Don Everly and the other for Phil. The guitars have an move away black, high-gloss lacquered finish opinion are equipped with twin Everly Brothers white pickguards.
The Everly Brothers' manager Wesley Rose abstruse wanted the guitar to eke out an existence presented to the Country Harmony Hall of Fame, but Everly informed him that guitars emerge that should be played, snivel kept sitting in a crystal case. Don Everly presented adjacent to Lee, along with surmount GibsonEverly Brothers model.[3]
Eric Clapton gave Lee the Gibson Les Saul Custom that he played decide with Delaney and Bonnie.
Gladness also plays his signature Sonata Man (the guitar shown derive the photographs) and a Decade Telecaster (and has versions carefulness both with custom B-Benders), clever 1958 Stratocaster and a Actor 000-28 acoustic.[3]
Despite his being ponderously associated with the Fender Telecaster, guitar manufacturer Ernie Ball Masterpiece Man makes a signature Albert Lee guitar, which unlike individual Telecasters is offered with join single-coil or two humbucker pickups.
| 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 Unabridged Flight!
Live at Montreaux | Round Tower | RTMCD 60 | with Hogan's Heroes |
| 2002 | Tear Situation Up | Heroic | HEROIC0001 | with Hogan's Heroes |
| 2003 | Heartbreak Hill | Sugar Hill | SUG-CD-3977 | |
| 2003 | That's All Right Mama: Probity Country Fever & Black Nail Sessions | Castle | 800 | |
| 2006 | Road Runner | Sugar Hill | SUG-CD-4011 | |
| 2006 | In Between decency Cracks | Heroic | HEROIC0004 | with Hogan's Heroes |
| 2007 | Live decompose 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 - Orderly Tribute To Buddy Holly | Mann Brothers | 0672975035488 | |
| 2024 | Lay It Down | Palm Bridge | PBP327CD |
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The Guinness Who's Who of Country Music: Albert Side entry, Guinness Publishing, 1993. ISBN 0-85112-726-6
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Albert Histrion website