Albert Lee

This DVD contains two of Albert Lee's most well-known videos: Advanced Country Guitar and Virtuoso Techniques. In Advanced Country Guitar, Albert Lee performs some of his favorite tunes and analyzes his baffling technique in depth. Songs include "Fun Ranch Boogie", "Tiger Rag" and "That's Alright Mama". Albert also discusses his hybrid Travis -picking style, chord voicing, scalar ideas, how to create long seamless lines based off chord shapes, double stopconcepts, and analysis of his classic guitar parts. Virtuoso Techniques focuses on the components which make up Albert's brilliant country style.

Albert Lee & Hogan's Heroes - Live At Stazione Birra, Rome 2007
NTSC 720x480 (4:3) 29.97fps 6999kbps | Dolby Digital 2.0 ch | Artwork
Label/Cat#: Heroic Records # HEROIC0007 | Country/Year: UK 2009 | Size: 5,84 GB | 5% Recovery Info
Genre: Rock, Country | Style: Country Rock, Southern Rock

Hogan’s Heroes was formed by its namesake Gerry Hogan almost 30 years ago, specifically to back Albert Lee. The band’s first gig took place in 1987 at Gerry’s annual festival for pedal steel guitar.They have played together on a regular basis since that time and as a result have become one of the tightest units in music. (…) Albert Lee, by common consent one of the world’s finest guitar players, needs no introduction to Country music & Rock fans. He has worked with some of the world’s top artists, from Emmylou Harris to the Everly Brothers, Dolly Parton to Eric Clapton. Albert is a Grammy award winning musician, whosetalents continue to be in demand by fellow performers throughout the world.

Albert Lee occupies an odd niche in music – British by birth and upbringing, he spent the mid-'60s as a top R&B guitarist, but in the 1970s became one of the top rockabilly guitarists in the world, and no slouch in country music either. In England he's a been household name, and in Nashville and Los Angeles he's been one of the most in-demand session guitarists there is; but outside of professional music circles in America, he's one of those vaguely recognizable names, and occasionally misidentified with his similar-sounding contemporary, ex-Ten Years After guitarist Alvin Lee (with whom he did share a berth once, in Jerry Lee Lewis's band on the latter's London Sessions album) – but where Alvin was a hero of Woodstock and a flashy guitarist, in the manner of British blues extroverts Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck, Albert is much more likely to be found playing in the background, behind the Everly Brothers or alongside Eric Clapton.

Albert Lee has played with Eric Clapton, the Everly Brothers, Rosanne Cash, and many others. He is also a recording artist in his own right, having released four critically acclaimed albums, two of which were nominated for Grammy Awards. His speed, phrasing, feel, and choice of notes have earned him the reputationias the premier country guitarist. Highlights features Albert Lee at his best, playing some of his favorite tunes and original compositions and analyzing his baffling technique in depth. Using dozens of practical examples, Albert runs the gamut of country guitar stylings, including intros and endings, banjo-style picking, double-stop runs, and creating long seamless runs based off chord shapes, including a section on mimicking a pedal-steel guitar. There are numerous hot performances with his band.

Before becoming the driving force behind Led Zeppelin, guitarist Jimmy Page was a session man, hawking his talent to dozens of bands on the British beat scene, including this 1968 session for fledgling singer Keith De Groot's debut album. However, whatever talent De Groot had was swiftly eclipsed by the sheer force of his backing band, which included future Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones, keyboard legend Nicky Hopkins and guitar hero Albert Lee, whose lightning fast licks and Fender Telecaster soon made him an icon of British rock…

In Advanced Country Guitar, Albert Lee performs some of his favorite tunes and analyzes his baffling technique in depth. Songs include "Fun Ranch Boogie", "Tiger Rag" and "That's Alright Mama". Albert also discusses his hybrid Travis picking style, chord voicing, scalar ideas, how to create long seamless lines based off chord shapes, double stopconcepts, and analysis of his classic guitar parts.

Albert Lee has played with Eric Clapton, the Everly Brothers, Rosanne Cash, and many others. He is also a recording artist in his own right, having released four critically acclaimed albums, two of which were nominated for Grammy Awards. His speed, phrasing, feel, and choice of notes have earned him the reputationias the premier country guitarist. Highlights features Albert Lee at his best, playing some of his favorite tunes and original compositions and analyzing his baffling technique in depth. Using dozens of practical examples, Albert runs the gamut of country guitar stylings, including intros and endings, banjo-style picking, double-stop runs, and creating long seamless runs based off chord shapes, including a section on mimicking a pedal-steel guitar. There are numerous hot performances with his band.

Albert Lee occupies an odd niche in music – British by birth and upbringing, he spent the mid-'60s as a top R&B guitarist, but in the 1970s became one of the top rockabilly guitarists in the world, and no slouch in country music either.