Extraordinarily talented Nashville recording artist, vocalist, guitarist, fiddler, and what she does with a banjo borders on impossible. She is an endorsing artist for Deering Banjos!
When she is not laboring on her Nashville TV show, producing music for herself and other artists, producing shows and videos, or co-writing a novel trilogy about the music world, she is constantly touring . She has recorded 12 CDs, her latest being WALK A LITTLE WAYS WITH ME.
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2. Phil Lee South Tampa House Concert (Sun Nov 6) www.phillee1.com
A personal plug from yours truly – me. I’m a HUGE Phil Lee fan. He’s at the top of my favorite musicians list. If you come out to see him, I think you’ll understand why.
While I was in Nashville recently, I picked up the Oct 13-19, 2011, edition of the Nashville Scene where I found a writeup by Jim Ridley in the Critics Pick section about a concert with the Twenty-Eights (a Chuck Berry tribute band) & the opener PHIL LEE: “..... The Twenty-Eights live show is one of the most fun you’ll see all year – something we could say just as easily of their opening act, Phil Lee, whose You Should Have Known Me Then remains our favorite singer-songwriter album of the Aughts. To have them together – it’s as if Christmas arrived two months early. “
Phil in fine form at The Mad Hatter’s Iced Tea Party
“ The Don Rickles of disenfranchised nashtwang...”
http://www.youtube.com/mightykingoflove
Phil Lee – one man, one guitar and a bag of great songs about love and death, misplaced faith, discarded spaceships, hard times - and the funny side of all that. Guaranteed to please!
Sun Nov 6. 5:00 Doors. 5:30 Concert. $15-$20 suggested donation for Phil. Send me your RSVP & I’ll provide the address, etc.
“... stylistically versed, lyrically learned and immensely quick-witted...” Per Walter Tunis/The Musical Box Blog
"Combines social conscience of Woody Guthrie with the twisted fury of Jerry Lee Lewis" Per Associated Press Music Critic
"The Don Rickles of disenfranchised nashtwang strikes again...Lee presents himself as a lovable, if formerly dangerous, rapscallion. Skirting genre boundaries between rock, soul and country with his music and writing lyrics that knock right through walls of taste, decency and political correctness without ever landing him in a punk-rockish, spittin' for show camp." Per Peter Cooper, Nashville Tenessean, reviewing Phil’s Mighty King of Love .
Hows about a traveling mini-fest? Doors for the Phil Lee South Tampa House Concert is set for 5:00 with concert at 5:30. The reason for the strange timing is that Rod MacDonald will be in an early afternoon concert at the Jan Platt Library – which is about 8 minutes from the house . Rod’s concert begins at 2 & should be over by 4:30ish.
http://host7.evanced.info/hillsborough/evanced/eventcalendar.asp
If one were to so choose, one could attend Rod’s concert at the library & then drive down to the house and attend Phil’s concert. A great double whammy. Sounds like a swell idea to me! Perhaps Rod will stop by the house too (altho I’m not sure about that).
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