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Revision as of 16:59, 30 June 2007 by Lugnuts (talk | contribs) (categories)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Larry Lee was a long time friend of Jimi Hendrix and eventually joined Hendrix's new band Gypsy Sun and Rainbows as rhythm guitar player. The newly formed band played the Woodstock Music Festival. Larry Lee joined Gypsy Sun and Rainbows a week before Woodstock occurred. Hendrix had called on a person who was close to him to join him as a second guitarist. Lee had only been back from the war for two weeks before Hendrix called upon him. In concert, he seemed to have culture shock, as he performed with a head scarf around his face. Lee preferred to play a Gibson Les Paul guitar. Shortly after Woodstock Larry left the band.
During the seventies, Lee acted as the band director and lead guitarist for Al Green's traveling band. He appeared on the Johnny Carson Show and television specials around the world with Green. Lee also was a songwriter and wrote for Stax Records early recording artists, the Astors. "Judy," a song he wrote during his days playing with Hendrix in Nashville was covered by Al Green and the Spidells. Lee briefly traveled with blues great Albert King. He said King fired him because his playing overshadowed King's.
In the eighties through the ninities, he teamed with his friend, Timothy Lee Matthews and they collobrated on Matthews' CD "Songs for the Greats." Matthews, co-writer of the classic blues song, "Breaking Up Somebody's Home," called Lee the consummate "sideman", Lee's distinctive complimentary rhythm and lead style can be heard on 9 of the 11 songs on Matthews' CD.
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