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Editorial Review:
Best known for his unique musical style and blindingly fast hybrid picking technique, English guitarist Albert Lee is often referred to within the music industry as the "guitar player's guitar player," renowned for his work across several genres of music and for the respect that he has garnered from other industry giants.
This comprehensive biography tells the entire story of Lee's long career and personal experiences, beginning with his upbringing in south London and his early experimentations with skiffle music (the British equivalent of American rockabilly). The story continues into the 1960s, through Lee's career in Chris Farlowe's Thunderbirds and the British rock and country group Heads, Hands, and Feet before covering Lee's move to the United States in the 1970s and his subsequent work with Eric Clapton, the Crickets, Emmylou Harris and the Hot Band, the Everly Brothers, and, more recently, with Bill Wyman and with Hogan's Heroes. Throughout the work, the author sets Lee's career against the background of changes in popular music and assesses how Lee, as a British artist with nomadic Romany roots, has impacted traditionally "American" musical genres. The work includes 66 photographs, many from Lee's personal collection, two appendices, and an extensive bibliography.
Country Boy: A Biography of Albert Lee Reviews:
An informative and enthralling read 
2008-06-17 - Biographies can oh-so-often be a mundane list of dates and events chronicling the life and times of person being written about. Derek Watts fills the life story of Albert Lee with colour and anecdotes that leads you from chapter to chapter, wanting to know what happens next. Each chapter is composed carefully and details a particular direction that Lee has taken at that time - a period of 4 to 7 years. It is clear that Watts has researched his subject carefully and has taken time to interview many, if not all, of the people involved in the life and times of Albert Lee. And it says much of Watts that he has been able to get so much from so many in what is such a busy business. I am looking forward to the next project that Watts will publish: it doesn't matter who or what it's about, it is sure to enthrall.
Albert Lee, Country Boy
2008-06-14 - This book is a must read for anyone into the Electric guitar, or the histories of country music and rock and roll. Albert's career is an amazing journey and Mr. Watts does a superb job of taking us along for the ride.
