013964743173

Highway Man

Albert Lee

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Release Date:  18 September 2015

Label:  Palm Bridge Productions

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  013964743173

Genres:  Country  Country-Rock  

  • Description

    Legendary guitarist Albert Lee's brand new solo album Highwayman is an intimate and heart-wrenching collection of classic acoustic covers.

    Most know him as the "ultimate virtuoso" (in Eric Clapton's own words) on an electric guitar…but for Albert Lee's latest offering, this world-renowned and much-loved country legend swaps his signature Ernie Ball Music Man and "Country Boy" fast-picking for a close, personal and straight-from-the-heart performance on just piano, acoustic guitar and vocals.

    "Highwayman" features 12 honest and unapologetic renditions of some of Albert's all-time favourite tracks - recorded live and captured in a moment of true inspiration - and truly represents, to quote the man himself, "the album I'd always wanted to record".

    This raw and emotional record pays tribute to many of Albert's musical influences - the classic rock 'n' roll of the Everly Brothers' "Bye Bye Love", the deep feeling of Rodney Crowell's ballad "Till I Can Gain Control Again", and the centrepiece of the album in Jimmy Webb's "The Highwayman" - a powerful and dramatic, and most probably definitive, version of a true musical masterpiece. This is Albert Lee as close and personal as you are ever likely to hear.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Bye Bye Love
      • 2. Dimming of the Day
      • 3. Hey Doll Baby
      • 4. The Highwayman
      • 5. Skip Rope Song
      • 6. Like Strangers
      • 7. Till I Can Gain Control Again
      • 8. Keep a Knockin
      • 9. Eighteen Yellow Roses
      • 10. Sleepless Nights
      • 11. Well All Right
      • 12. A Better Place