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Albert Lee, known in the business as 'the guitar-player's guitar-player', has influenced a whole generation of guitarists on both sides of the Atlantic. Earl Scruggs, the legendary bluegrass banjoist, describes him as "a genuine guitar wizard."
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A solo from Albert Lee, says Dolly Parton, "is liquid magic" and to Eric Clapton, who contributed the Foreword to Albert Lee's forthcoming biography, Country Boy, Albert Lee is "a great, great player, fluid, lyrical and free, like a jazz musician but with country scales, like Django, but with a bluegrass past."
Albert's past combines Romany roots, a grounding in the 1950s skiffle era and in the guitar styling of heroes like Scotty Moore, Cliff Gallup, Hank Garland and Jimmy Bryant.
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Turning professional in 1960, Albert Lee paid his dues on the German club circuit and through his work with Chris Farlowe and the Thunderbirds in the mid-1960s, he made a name as a lightning quick and fluidly melodic player, on the same R&B circuit as the Yardbirds, the Animals and the Rolling Stones, at the legendary 'all-nighters' in London's Flamingo club.
Albert Lee had always loved country music and after a short stint in Country Fever, he joined the seminal British country-rock unit, Heads, Hands and Feet, who gained a cult following in the early 70s, after which he took the plunge and moved Stateside, working over the next two decades with legendary performers like The Crickets, Emmylou Harris, Joe Cocker, Jackson Browne and the Everly Brothers, with whom he had a fruitful eighteen-year association.
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Albert Lee's two instrumental albums for MCA's Master Series, Speechless and Gagged But Not Bound, were both nominated for Grammys.
Since the mid-1980s, Albert Lee has toured and recorded with Hogan's Heroes and in the last decade has been a regular member of the Rhythm Kings. In 2002, Albert Lee appeared at the Concert for George (Harrison) and in the same year he received a Grammy award for 'Best Country Instrumental Performance' for Foggy Mountain Breakdown, from the CD, Earl Scruggs and Friends.
A full-length authorised biography, written by Derek Watts, is available from www.mcfarlandpub.com, the Hogan's Heroes website, and on Amazon.
http://www.albertleeandhogansheroes.com/
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A solo from Albert Lee, says Dolly Parton, "is liquid magic" and to Eric Clapton, who contributed the Foreword to Albert Lee's forthcoming biography, Country Boy, Albert Lee is "a great, great player, fluid, lyrical and free, like a jazz musician but with country scales, like Django, but with a bluegrass past."
Albert's past combines Romany roots, a grounding in the 1950s skiffle era and in the guitar styling of heroes like Scotty Moore, Cliff Gallup, Hank Garland and Jimmy Bryant.
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Turning professional in 1960, Albert Lee paid his dues on the German club circuit and through his work with Chris Farlowe and the Thunderbirds in the mid-1960s, he made a name as a lightning quick and fluidly melodic player, on the same R&B circuit as the Yardbirds, the Animals and the Rolling Stones, at the legendary 'all-nighters' in London's Flamingo club.
Albert Lee had always loved country music and after a short stint in Country Fever, he joined the seminal British country-rock unit, Heads, Hands and Feet, who gained a cult following in the early 70s, after which he took the plunge and moved Stateside, working over the next two decades with legendary performers like The Crickets, Emmylou Harris, Joe Cocker, Jackson Browne and the Everly Brothers, with whom he had a fruitful eighteen-year association.
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Albert Lee's two instrumental albums for MCA's Master Series, Speechless and Gagged But Not Bound, were both nominated for Grammys.
Since the mid-1980s, Albert Lee has toured and recorded with Hogan's Heroes and in the last decade has been a regular member of the Rhythm Kings. In 2002, Albert Lee appeared at the Concert for George (Harrison) and in the same year he received a Grammy award for 'Best Country Instrumental Performance' for Foggy Mountain Breakdown, from the CD, Earl Scruggs and Friends.
A full-length authorised biography, written by Derek Watts, is available from www.mcfarlandpub.com, the Hogan's Heroes website, and on Amazon.
http://www.albertleeandhogansheroes.com/
