[Harp-L] Re: Who the hell is Lee Sankey?

[Roger Trobridge <gopher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 12:39:15 +1000
From: "Billy James" <billyjames@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> Does anyone know 'the bio' on Lee Sankey?

Lee Sankey is one of the best younger harp players in the UK. He was
NHL champion blues player when still at college in 1993. Later he set
up and led a  modern blues band, which grew to have a brass section
and Hammond organ,  which toured Europe and the UK for about six
years. He played guitar, wrote most of the music and played some great
harmonica. He made some fine albums in an original, personal,  funky
style.  After taking some time out, he now plays more harp again,
mainly with friends in the UK. 

If you would like to see and hear more he is giving one of the many
workshops at the NHL Spring Festival at The Stables, in Milton Keynes,
on Saturday May 16, 2009.
www.harmonica.co.uk/sfestival.htm

and he will be one of the featured artists at the NHL Festival H2009
in Bristol 23-25 Oct 2009.
www.harmonica.co.uk

You can read more about Lee here.
www.leesankey.com
www.youtube.com/user/leesankeygroup

You can read more about him, hear him playing and see videos here
http://www.last.fm/music/Lee+Sankey
Lots of full tracks which show the full range of his music

Roger 

>A few years back I met Lee Sankey in a small Bowling club in the tiny riverside village of  Maelstrom [near Bellingen] in NSW Australia.It was a New Years Day and my friend John was playing with The Airborne Blues Virus on the day.Amazingly this pale bald British guy [who by the way was with what seemed like a posse of stunningly beautiful young women] stepped up to us and turned out to be a really great guitarist and of cause an extrordinary blues harmonica player. Apparently Lee was just as amazed as us, that he bumped into two 'full-on' harp players 'kicking it out' in the 'middle of nowhere', on a lazy NYD.By the way [at the time] he certainly showed us 'a thing or two', he 'cut us' well and truely when he got up with the band.I really don't know much about Lee Sankey although I have occasionaly kept in contact. I was under the impression, he was possibly a record producer as well as a performer with his own Jazz style Big Band. He also certainly knew the source of rocki!
> n' blues al la Freddy & Albert King, Albert Collins, Hendrix and apparently had met Stevie Ray Vaughn? etc.

>LInks:
>Check out his harp playing:
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0c3WYs4MpA
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffoex9dyAO8