LS

Lee Simpson | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 19, 2004)
• Original Release Date: November 19, 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Vina Loam Records
• ASIN: B00076V70Y
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,642,078 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. My Baby Loves Me

2. Flying Blind

3. Meth and Red Wine

4. Doing Well

5. Blossom

6. Ripped

7. Jesse

8. This Goddamn Place

9. Get it Right

10. Missing Those Old Times

11. Big City River

12. Step Lightly

Editorial Reviews

Objects may be closer than they appear." This is the constant warning that we are given every time we look in those mirrors to see what we are leaving behind, just as it should be a warning on the back of the new Lee Simpson self-titled album. The heart-spilling lyrics of Simpson and Jason Fletcher remind us that no matter how far down the road you go, it just might not be far enough. As he sings in "This God Damn Place," "sometimes it’s easier to move along / and bear it all in time." Whether in the bare-bones harmonizing of "Doing Well" or the toe-tapping melancholy of "Those Old Times," Lee Simpson gives you the sense that nothing is being held back — vocally, or emotionally. Clean acoustic picking, crisp steel guitar licks as well as some plugged-in, muddy riffs help maintain the down-home feel of this album. – Noel Pearson Synthesis Magazine

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great record - getting better, July 26, 2005

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christine lapado "cali soul" (sf ca) - See all my reviews

This review is from: LS (Audio CD)

Chico singer/guitarist/ songwriter Lee Simpson (ex-Blue Dye Fire) calls his music "full-tilt Americana rock and roll." I'd go a step further and call it Californiana. Like another well-known Chico band noted for its California sound, the Mother Hips, Simpson and his crew possess well-schooled suburban-country-rock chops and sincere--sometimes soaring--vocal harmonies. Simpson uses a varying line-up, both on the CD and when touring. The current road band includes local string man/singer Bruce MacMillan and Buffalo Creek drummer Nick Bearden. LS features an array of stellar players--including guitarist/singer Gary Dutra of Electric Circus fame, who also wrote track no. 8, "Doing Well"--playing originals written mainly by Simpson. Daniel Schuck's organ on "Get It Right" recalls The Band's Garth Hudson, and Simpson's guitar opening on "Big City River" has a Southern-with-a-mellow-hint-of-Skynyrd sound. "Flying Blind" is both soaring and sincere and proudly pretty: "I know we might be flying blind/ I won't leave you behind..." Thumbs-up on Dean Lafayette's anchoring bass and the back-up vocals of Tom Molyneaux and Robin Dutra. www.leesimpson.net - Christine Lapado

4.0 out of 5 stars Great record - getting better, July 26, 2005

By 

christine lapado "cali soul" (sf ca) - See all my reviews

This review is from: LS (Audio CD)

Chico singer/guitarist/ songwriter Lee Simpson (ex-Blue Dye Fire) calls his music "full-tilt Americana rock and roll." I'd go a step further and call it Californiana. Like another well-known Chico band noted for its California sound, the Mother Hips, Simpson and his crew possess well-schooled suburban-country-rock chops and sincere--sometimes soaring--vocal harmonies. Simpson uses a varying line-up, both on the CD and when touring. The current road band includes local string man/singer Bruce MacMillan and Buffalo Creek drummer Nick Bearden. LS features an array of stellar players--including guitarist/singer Gary Dutra of Electric Circus fame, who also wrote track no. 8, "Doing Well"--playing originals written mainly by Simpson. Daniel Schuck's organ on "Get It Right" recalls The Band's Garth Hudson, and Simpson's guitar opening on "Big City River" has a Southern-with-a-mellow-hint-of-Skynyrd sound. "Flying Blind" is both soaring and sincere and proudly pretty: "I know we might be flying blind/ I won't leave you behind..." Thumbs-up on Dean Lafayette's anchoring bass and the back-up vocals of Tom Molyneaux and Robin Dutra. www.leesimpson.net - Christine Lapado