- Albert Lee( Albert William Lee )【 4 albums 41 lyrics 】
- Albert William Lee (born 21 December 1943) is an English guitarist known for his fingerstyle and hybrid picking technique. Lee has worked, both in the studio and on tour, with many famous musicians from a wide range of genres. He has also maintained a solo career and is a noted composer and musical director.
Lee has received many awards as a guitarist, winning five consecutive times Guitar Player magazine's 'Best Country Guitarist'. Lee is known within the music industry for his speed of playing and his technical virtuosity and yet by the same token, one of the most melodic, playing slower passages approximating the sound of the pedal steel guitar with his Music Man and Telecaster guitars which are equipped with B-Benders.
He is known as 'the guitar player's guitar player'. Lee is also referred to as 'Mr. Telecaster'. A long-time Telecaster player, Lee wrote a foreword to A.R. Duchossoir's book detailing the history of the instrument.
Lee's song 'Country Boy' helped to redefine country guitar for a whole generation of players, and was later to become a hit for multi-instrumentalist Ricky Skaggs.
Despite positive press from Melody Maker and New Musical Express, Lee has never achieved any great commercial success in terms of record sales during his career, but more as a live performer, session player and sideman, perhaps due to his self-effacing stage presence. Lee has been described by his peers, who include Jimmy Page and Ritchie Blackmore, as a complete gentleman who does not know the meaning of the word ego.
After Gram Parsons's death, Emmylou Harris was told that she could only gain the backing of a major record label if she could assemble a really 'Hot Band'. Harris did just that, enlisting guitarist James Burton and pianist Glen Hardin, both of whom had played with Elvis Presley and Parsons; she named the band 'The Hot Band'. When Burton left to return to Elvis Presley, Lee was his replacement. Harris said of him that Lee is 'a brilliant guitar player. His sound is unmistakable—often emulated, never equaled. When Saint Peter asks me to chronicle my time down here on earth, I'll be able to say (with pride if that's allowed) that for a while I played rhythm guitar in a band with Albert Lee.'
In 2017, Lee was honoured with the Trailblazer Lifetime Achievement Award at the UK Americana Awards.
Guitar collection
Albert Lee owns around 40 guitars, including Don Everly's Gibson J-200. The Gibson Guitar Corporation made one for Don Everly and the other for Phil. The guitars have an all black, high gloss lacquered finish and are equipped with twin Everly Brothers white pickguards. The Everly Brothers' manager Wesley Rose had wanted the guitar to be presented to the Country Music Hall of Fame, but Everly informed him that guitars like that should be played, not kept sitting in a glass case. Don Everly presented it to Lee, along with his Gibson Everly Brothers model.
Eric Clapton gave Lee the Gibson Les Paul Custom that he played while with Delaney and Bonnie. Lee also plays his signature Music Man (the guitar shown in the photographs) and a 1950s Telecaster (and has versions of both with custom B-Benders), a 1958 Stratocaster and a Martin 000-28 acoustic.
Band list
Chris Farlowe and the Thunderbirds
Country Fever
Green Bullfrog
Heads Hands & Feet
Emmylou Harris and the Hot Band
Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings
Biffbaby's All Stars, featuring: Albert Lee, Eddie Van Halen, Steve Morse and Steve Lukather. In association with Ernie Ball products
Discography
Solo albums
Albert Lee – Hiding (1979)
Albert Lee – Real Wild Child (1982)
Albert Lee – Albert Lee (1982)
Albert Lee – Speechless (1986)
Albert Lee – Gagged But Not Bound (1987)
Albert Lee – Black Claw/Country Fever (1991)
Albert Lee – Heartbreak Hill (2003)
Albert Lee – That's All Right Mama (2005)
Albert Lee – Road Runner (2006)
Albert Lee – In Full Flight! (2007)
Albert Lee – Tear It Up (2007)
Albert Lee – In Between The Cracks (2007)
Albert Lee – Like This (2008)
Albert Lee – Highwayman (2014) - Sorted by ＞ Sorted by album (Time) Sorted by song name (Characters) Sorted by other
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Frettening Behaviour
2014
1.Good Riddance (Provided)
2.King Of Broken Hearts (Provided)
3.Oh Marie (Provided)
4.No One Can Make My Sunshine Smile (Provided)
5.Showdown (Provided)
6.Song For The Life (Provided)
7.My Window Faces The South (Provided)8.Looks Like Love (Provided)
9.You Just Might (Provided)
10.Dreaming As One (Provided)
11.When Elvis Broke The News (Provided)
12.A Better Place (Provided)
13.Spell Bound (Provided)
14.Big Town Girl (Provided) -
Road Runner
2006
1.I'm a Road Runner
2.Rock of Your Love3.The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
4.Dimming of the Day -
Heartbreak Hill
2003
1.Heartbreak Hill
2.Heaven Only Knows
3.If I Needed You4.Born to Run
5.Two More Bottles of Wine
6.'Til I Gain Control Again -
Miscellaneous
1.Rocky Top, Tennessee
2.Country Boy
3.Setting Me Up
4.Sweet Little Lisa
5.Don't Let Go
6.Tiger Rag
7.Down the Line
8.That's Alright Mama
9.Good Times10.I'm Ready
11.Many River to Cross
12.I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow
13.Leave My Woman Alone
14.Back in the U.S.A.
15.Lay Lady Lay
16.Look Out Cleveland (Black Claw Sessions)
17.Before I Grow Too Old
【Correction of errors in the album information】