Terry Lee Hale (US)
onsdag 7. september 2011 kl. 22:00 på Café Mono
Folk/Akustisk/Alternativt
Terry Lee Hale har spillt flere ganger på Cafe Mono gjennom årene. Nå har vi gleden av å ha ham tilbake igjen
Singer/songwriter Terry Lee Hale gjorde sine første innspillinger i Seattle på slutten av 80-tallet, akkurat i starten av grunge-bølgen. Han var bl.a. med på “Sub Pop 200” – en samleskive hvor bla Walkabouts , Soundgarden og Nivana dukket opp for første gang.
Har siden 1993 gitt ut 12 album, og for et par år siden så bidro han med en låt på trondheimsprosjektet «All Sewn Up – A Tribute To Patrick Fitzgerald»
Terry Lee fikk på midten av 90-tallet platekontrakt med et Tysk selskap og flyttet til Paris (hvor han fortsatt bor i dag).
Det engelske musikkmagasinet “Uncut” omtalte Terry Lee Hale som USA’s mest undervurderte låtskriver for noen år siden.
1953 – San Antonio, Texas : Born into an army family Terry Lee attended 10 schools in 10 different cities. After finishing high school in Yakima, Washington he set out for Seattle, then California and continued from there to travel in the States all the while learning to play guitar and write songs. TLH has worked as a carpenter, truck driver, farm and ranch hand, cook, laborer, bar tender, booking agent and various other occupations to support himself, his daughter (as a single parent) and his music. From the first time he heard Bill Haley’s “Rock Around The Clock” he wanted to be a guitar player and indeed, bought his first Stella when he was 14. Terry Lee has lived and traveled extensively in America and, since 1993 in Europe as well. His first appearance on record was on 1987′s “Lowlife” compilation from Ironwood Studios and the following year with his song “Dead Is Dead” on SubPop 200.
Now, there are 12 Cd’s released in Europe, all of them (except the last) on German recording labels. The first was in 1993 with “Oh What A World” on Normal Records . The next 8 CDs (Frontier Model, The Wilderness Years, Tornado Alley, Leaving West, Old Hand, Blue Room, Frozen, Tender Loving Hell: The Best Of…) were with Glitterhouse Records. The next 3 releases were with Blue Rose Records. Celebration What For in 2004 and one self-titled release called Hardpan along with one live CD/DVD – Hardpan Live – which featured American songwriters Chris Burroughs, Joseph Parsons Todd Thibaud and Terry Lee Hale. In 2007 he released his latest CD called “Shotgun Pillowcase” on the Spanish Borderdreams label.