{"id":1936,"date":"2012-08-01T11:56:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T11:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/08\/01\/guitar-legend-alvin-lee-still-on-the-road-to-freedom-with-new-solo-album\/"},"modified":"2012-08-01T11:56:39","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T11:56:39","slug":"guitar-legend-alvin-lee-still-on-the-road-to-freedom-with-new-solo-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2012\/08\/01\/guitar-legend-alvin-lee-still-on-the-road-to-freedom-with-new-solo-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Guitar Legend Alvin Lee Still On The Road To Freedom With New Solo Album"},"content":{"rendered":"


More than four decades have passed since Alvin Lee stood front and center at the famed Woodstock festival with his band Ten Years After and told half million or so fans, \u201cI\u2019m Going Home . . . by helicopter.\u201d
Forty-three years later, Alvin Lee hasn\u2019t arrived at his destination yet, as the title of his new solo album, Still on the Road to Freedom, available August 27, 2012 on Rainman Records, will attest. \u201cI don\u2019t think I ever will,\u201d he laughs.
Recorded at Space Studios 3 in Spain, Still on the Road to Freedom finds Lee returning to his original inspirations. Longtime band members bassist Pete Pritchard and drummer Richard Newman, along with keyboardist Tim Hinkley, join Lee in a musical travelogue that is a tribute to the roots music that first influenced him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got my start in music listening to my dad\u2019s jazz and blues 78s when I was eight years old,\u201d says Lee, who continues to follow his inspirations. \u201cIt\u2019s about the freedom to make music of my own choice without worrying about what other people thought or expected,\u201d he writes in the album\u2019s liner notes.<\/p>\n

Still on the Road to Freedom nods to country-blues, embodied by Alvin\u2019s gutbucket harp on \u201cSave My Stuff\u201d (\u201cI was a big fan of Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee\u201d) and the delta stomp \u201cBlues Got Me So Bad\u201d (\u201cMy blues name is Deaf Lemon Lee\u201d). He evokes a folksy feel in the stark acoustic \u201cWalk On, Walk Tall,\u201d perfects the sensuous slow blues style of J.J. Cale in \u201cNice and Easy,\u201d and strums Spanish rhythms in the instrumental \u201cSong of the Red Rock Mountain,\u201d a song he made up on the spot while testing a microphone.<\/p>\n

Lee continues to explore that creative freedom with the tribal African drums of \u201cListen to Your Radio Station,\u201d which includes a sample loop from the late Ian Wallace, the gospel organ of \u201cMidnight Creeper\u201d and the surprising funk of the rousing \u201cRock You.\u201d<\/p>\n

The album also features \u201cLove Like a Man 2,\u201d a remake of the song on the band\u2019s 1970 album Cricklewood Green, inspired, according to Lee, by New Orleans R&B player Smiley Lewis\u2019 \u201cI Hear You Knocking,\u201d with a nod towards seminal influence Chuck Berry.<\/p>\n

Asked how he\u2019d describe himself, Lee pauses: \u201cA musician . . . who leans towards blues, but likes rock and roll, country, funk, jazz \u2014 anything with a guitar in it.<\/p>\n

After all these years, Alvin Lee\u2019s still going home.<\/p>\n

Still on the Road to Freedom track listing
1. Still on the Road to Freedom
2. Listen to Your Radio Station
3. Midnight Creeper
4. Save My Stuff
5. I\u2019m a Lucky Man
6. Walk On, Walk Tall
7. Blues Got Me So Bad
8. Song of the Red Rock Mountain
9. Nice & Easy
10. Back in \u201969
11. Down Line Rock
12. Rock You
13. Love Like a Man 2<\/p>\n

Source: http:\/\/www.alvinlee.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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