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Phil Lee last toured the UK with The East Nashville Revue, playing Maverick, Summertyne & Leadenhall Americana Festivals, before that playing venues & festivals in England, Ireland Scotland & Holland with his side-kick Tom Mason who he describes affectionately/typically as "like a beloved pet barely walking up-right" now hes got a sparkly new Dobro & a yearning to tour solo, here are the dates, & all you need to know about "the Might King Of Love" one of the worlds true originals & one of the finest American born entertainers since Jimmy Durante.
Robbie Fulk's secret country with Phil Lee Band feat. Bill Kirchens by medicinemusic
When a teenaged Phi Lee left his Durham NC home for New York City, Los Angeles and sundry parts in between it wasn’t, as legend might have it, because the town wasn’t big enough for both him and his lawman daddy. It was, as they used to say, to see the elephant, that is, to have some adventures, break a few hearts, learn a few lessons and live the kind of life that gave him the kind of perspective that made it possible - and necessary - to write songs like the ones on his new album, So Long, It’s Been Good To Know You.
Working as a roadie for the Flying Burrito Brothers, drumming and bus driving for Billy Joe Royal, playing 6 AM radio shows every morning before high school with Homer Briarhopper’s Daybreak Gang (featuring guest star Clyde Moody, The Waltz King Of The Nation - “mean as a stripedy snake”) and doing other things mentionable and un shaped a songwriter who can come up with a song like “25 Mexicans,” which will have you smiling, crying, pissed off and heartbroken all at the same time.
Besides this new one, Phil Lee has two other albums out – The Mighty King Of Love and You Should Have Known Me Then - and you should put down that Hot Pocket and glass of Sunny D right now and go get all three of them or order ‘em up on that World Wide Inter Web thing. You’d do well to start with So Long, It’s Been Good To Know You; being his latest it’s also his best. That seems to be the way Phil Lee works things; without taking anything away from the last one he still manages to make the new one better. It’s a pretty neat trick because it leaves you something to look forward to no matter where you start.
A lot of people will call Phil Lee’s music country rock or alt-country or whatever. But it’s really just where rock and roll would naturally have gone from the days of Jerry Lee and Chuck Berry through classic sixties Soul music, Bob Dylan, Joe South and the Beatles and the Stones if it had been allowed to progress unmolested. Spandex and mousse and silicone chips left a pretty nasty carbon footprint on the musical environment too. A Phil Lee record goes a long way toward balancing things out. If anyone is making music as true to the head and heart and soul as you’ll find on Phil’s third album, they probably spent the last few years listening to his first two.
BBC Radio Kent (and BBC South Coast) The Dave Cash Show Jan 22 (7.00 pm)
Minster Folk/Blues Club (With Mike Cullison) Jan 23 (7.30pm)
Minster Folk Club,
Minster Working Mens Club,
Minster on Sea ,
Isle Of Sheppey,
Kent. ME12 2HW
Tickets £6
07990828114
graham.j.white@talktalk.net
Kent House Concert (private) Jan 24
(Record) House of Mercy Radio Show, 1pm, London Jan 25
London Jan 25 (7.30pm)
What's Cookin' (With Mike Cullison)
The Brickbeck Tavern,
45 Langthorn Road,
Leyton, E11 4HL.
Tickets: Donation
Leicester Jan 26 (7.30pm)
The Donkey
203 Welford Road
Leicester
LE2 6BH
Tickets £5
Bar: 0116 270 5042
For tickets and booking enquires contact Gaz Birtles
Larges Jan 27 (7.30pm) 28 (7.30pm) & 29 (2pm)
Skinner Fest
The Brisbane Centre
30 Bath Street, Largs, KA30 8BL
07828 229895
Aryshire
Scotland
Tickets TBC
Dingwall Jan 30 (Monday Medicine Show 7.30)
The Greenhouse
14 High Street Dingwall Ross-shire Scotland IV15 9RU
Tickets: Donation sugg. £8
http://www.thegreenhousedingwall.co.uk
Strathpeffer Jan 31 (9pm) Square Wheels House Concert
Tynemouth Feb 3 (7.30pm)
Porter's Coffee House
Tickets: £8
Phone: 0191 258 6100
Haile Feb 4 (7.30pm)
Farnham Feb 5th (7.30)
the lamb, Abbey st,
farnham, surrey,
GU9 7RJ
An interview with Phil at Belladrum Festival just as people were starting to catch on about him.
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Matt Urmy and Mary Gauthier recording Sweet Lonesome at Quonset Hut Studios
Its Medicine Show Wednesday every second wednesday of the month join Rob Ellen on UK Country Radio.com, 8pm, repeated 4pm on the following Thursday.
This Medicine show was first broadcast on UkCountryRadio.com in Jan 2011 and features a concert features Matt Urmy as his album Sweet Lonesome has this month entered the Euro Americana Chart at 3. Sweet Lonesome was the first album to be recorded at the recently refurbished legendary Owen Bradley's Quonset Hut Studios, the first Nashville Studio where The Nashville Sound was fostered. I'll be looking back at some of those great recording from the perspective of one of Nashvilles rising stars Matt Urmy.
The Medicine Show Broadcasts the Second Wednesday Of The Month on UKCountryRadio.com and every Wednesday on www.nevisradio.co.uk Broadcasting Health and Happiness From The Highlands Of Scotland www.themedicineshow.eu .
Frequencies and channel numbers
FM: 102.3 MHz. - RDS name: Nevis_FM (Skye & Mallaig)
FM: 102.4 MHz. - RDS name: Nevis_FM (Loch Leven)
FM: 96.6 MHz. - RDS name: Nevis_FM (Fort William)
FM: 97.0 MHz. - RDS name: Nevis_FM (Glencoe)
The Medicine Show Presents Benny Gallagher @ Acoustic Strathpeffer Coffee Shop Session,
Coffee Shop Cromarty Buildings Strathpeffer Ross-shire. Scotland IV14 9dg 01997 421500. (By Dingwall) March 6th ticket £15 On sale here and from the venue only 30 available, so "Don't Be Late Don't Hesitate".
"In an intimate evening of songs and stories about his days as a Staff Writer with The Beatles Publishing Co. Apple, Legendary Singer-Songwriter Benny Gallagher will perform all of the hits he penned for McGuinness Flint and Gallagher & Lyle - songs that have since been recorded by:
Art Garfunkel, Bryan Ferry, Colin Blunstone, Donavon Frankenreiter, Don Williams, Elkie Brooks, Fairport Convention, Garth Brooks (Concert in Central Park), Judith Durham, Little Anthony and the Imperials, Mary Hopkin, Phil Everly, Ricky Nelson, Ringo Starr, Rita Coolidge, Status Quo, Simon and Garfunkel (Concert in Central Park), The Fureys, and Lemon Jelly to name but a few..... along with some great new songs from his latest Album ‘At The Edge of the Wave’
For 40 years and more, Benny Gallagher has been writing, composing, arranging and performing timeless classics. Small wonder then that, with Graham Lyle, he was one of the first songwriters to be signed by Apple Publishing. Success as an artist quickly followed when the legendary McGuinness Flint stormed the charts with When I'm Dead And Gone and Malt and Barley Blues.
Then came seven more albums and world tours with the majestic Gallagher & Lyle - by which time Benny’s reputation was cemented as one of the UK’s foremost songwriters of his generation. 
Benny Gallagher in conversation with Rob Ellen Acoustic Strathpeffer
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The Medicine Show every second Wednesday of every month is featured on UK Country Radio.com this months show featured No Comebacks in conversation and a Celtic Connections preview, www.ukcountryradio.com to listen to live feed 8pm Jan 13th (repeated 4pm next Thursdays) www.themedicineshow.eu for feeds to Nevis Radio Medicine Show every Wednesday 10pm (GMT) and more info on all Medicine Shows.
Here is the play list for UKCountryradio.com show (In conjunction with The AF Collective Radio
Intro Hungry Hash House Ramblers - Cherokee Shuffle
Arty Hill and The Long Gone Daddies - I'm a Long Gone Daddy - Montgomery on my Mind
Hanks Williams - Faded Love and Winter Roses - The Hanks Williams Story
Daddy - Wash and Fold - For a Second Time
Professor Longhair - Tripitinas 1945 - Tripitina
No Comebacks - Interview
No Comebacks (with PJ Proby) - Corrina Corrina - Back In The Saddle Again
Bob Wills and his Texas Play Boys - San Antonio Rose
Eric Brace and Last Train Home - My Baby Just Cares For Me - Six Songs
Phil Lee - Neon Tombstone - East Nashville - Vol 3 More Songs From The Other side
AJ Roach - Cold As Christmas - Dogwood Winter
Robby Hecht - Chemicals - Late Last Night
Gandalf Murphy and The Slambovian Circus Of Dreams - Radio -A Good Thief Tips His Hat
Furnace Mountain -Winters Nights - Fields Of Fescue
Here is the podcast enjoy
Rob Ellen
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