Amos Lee

Along with his laid-back vocal delivery and earthy acoustic songwriting, Amos Lee draws inspiration from soul music, contemporary jazz, and ’70s folk artists like James Taylor. The Philadelphia indigenous first became seriously interested in performing while going to the University or college of SC during the middle-’90s. After graduating having a level in British, he taught primary school before making a decision to go after a music profession full-time. An interval of waiting furniture and bartending adopted as Lee honed his songwriting abilities. He eventually got some high-profile gigs as an starting act, including a protracted tour with pianist/vocalist Norah Jones, whose bassist, Lee Alexander, decided to create Lee’s first recording. With Alexander’s help, Lee released the eponymously entitled Amos Lee on Blue Notice in 2005. The recording reached number 2 within the U.S. Billboard Best Heatseekers graph and several from the songs — “Colours,” “Maintain It Loose, Maintain It Tight,” and “Hands of a female” — had been used in numerous tv shows and films. Having won a little pursuing for his mixture of acoustic funk, folk, and light jazz, Lee came back one year later on along with his sophomore work, Source and Demand, offering the solitary “RAISE YOUR VOICE.” Made by previous Wallflowers and Natalie Vendor bassist Barrie Maguire, the recording entered the very best 100 from the Billboard 200 graph and additional cemented Lee’s status like a heartfelt, rootsy songwriter. The Don Was-produced Last Times on the Lodge implemented in 2008 and discovered Lee backed by way of a respectable cadre of journeyman music artists including guitarist Doyle Bramhall, Jr., keyboardist Spooner Oldham, bassist Pino Palladino, and drummer Adam Gadson. The record cracked the very best 40 upon its discharge and became Lee’s highest-charting record up to now. Buoyed by his achievement and an evergrowing group of fans, Lee could collect an all-star band of collaborators to seem on his following record, including Willie Nelson, Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam, Calexico, and Lucinda Williams. The effect, Objective Bell, was documented this year 2010 with Calexico’s Joey Uses up making, and released early the next year. Anchored with the one “Home windows Rolled Down,” the record reached number 1 on both Billboard 200 and Best Rock Albums graphs. The EP Because the Crow Flies, offering previously unreleased music documented during the Objective Bell sessions, made an appearance in 2012. Lee came back in 2013 with Mountains of Sorrow, Streams of Song, that was documented in Nashville with manufacturer Jay Joyce (the Wallflowers, Miranda Lambert, Eric Cathedral) and included performances from vocalists Alison Krauss and Patty Griffin. In addition, it performed well, achieving number 16 over the Billboard 200. The concert record Live at Crimson Rocks implemented in 2015 and showcased Lee carrying out using the Colorado Symphony Orchestra in the famous outdoor amphitheater. In 2016, Lee came back with Nature, his 6th full-length recording and 1st for John Varvatos Information/Republic Records. Made by Lee, the recording found him merging his like of modern R&B and pop along with his longstanding knack for earnest, folk-inflected melodicism. Included on Nature was the solitary “Vaporize.”