Hiding/Albert Lee (Import) (CD)

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• Release Date: May 11, 2004
• Label: Raven Records (Australia)
• UPC: 612657018729
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Dirty Linen (p.48) - "Lee turned in an outstanding performance, especially on the opener, 'Country Boy,' a sizzling track that really shows off his chops."

Personnel: Albert Lee (vocals, guitar, gut-string guitar, mandolin, piano, electric piano, organ, keyboards, background vocals); Brian Ahern (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Buddy Gene Emmons, Hank DeVito (steel guitar); Ricky Skaggs (fiddle); Mickey Raphael (harmonica); Lon Price (tenor saxophone); Greg "Frosty" Smith (baritone saxophone); Lee Thornberg (trumpet); Jerry Jumonville (horns); Glen D. Hardin, Charles "Chas" Hodges (piano); John Hobbs, Bill Payne (keyboards); Pete Gavin , Gerry Conway, Larrie Londin, John Ware, Bruce Gary (drums); Lynn Hartman, Barbara Bennett, Vince Gill (background vocals).

Liner Note Author: Albert Lee .

Recording information: Davlen Studios, North Hollywood, CA; Enactron Studios, North Hollywood, CA; Enactron Truck; Indigo Ranch; Kendun Recorders; United; Village Recorders, Los Angeles, CA; Western Studios, Hollywood, CA.

Photographer: Mark Hanauer.

This reissue is both welcome and irritating. The welcome part is that this brilliant music, by one of those more ubiquitous if under-recognized session guitarists of the 1970s and 1980s, is finally available in a remastered edition on CD, thanks to Australia's Raven label. Albert Lee's A&M session Hiding was recorded in two different stages. The first was with Lee playing virtually everything but bass and drums with old friends Dave Peacock and Chas Hodges. The second and definitive stage was when he became a touring member of Emmylou Harris' Hot Band, enlisting her then-husband, Brian Ahern, and the entire band (which included Ricky Skaggs, Hank DeVito, Emory Gordy, Rodney Crowell, and Glen D. Hardin) with session cats like Buddy Emmons and Mickey Raphael. The standard issue from Hiding was the tune "Country Boy," which has been covered by a dozen artists since. The sound of the record was close to the bone, full of fiddles, acoustic guitars, mandolins, funky bass and piano lines, and Lee's trademark electric blistering licks. Covers of the Louvins' "Are You Wasting My Time," John Reid's "Now and Then It's Gonna Rain," and three Crowell tunes -- including "Ain't Living Long Like This" -- rounded out the album. While Lee's singing leaves a bit to be desired here, it doesn't detract, either. But the masterpiece in this set is Lee's self-titled album from 1982. Producer Crowell, who was riding high with productions for Harris, his then-wife Rosanne Cash, and his own album, put together a band and helped Lee choose ten smoking tracks that showcased his abilities not only as a guitarist but as a frontman. The album opens with DeVito's pub rocker "Sweet Little Lisa" (this version is second only to Dave Edmunds' read of it) and slides right into John Hiatt's "Radio Girl" -- a version even better than the original. Lee contributed the slippery cruiser "Your Boys," and Crowell gave him another pair of tunes to balance the equation with one more each by Hiatt and DeVito. The songs serve to offer a more rock & roll side of Lee. His first love may have been country, but Crowell heard in him what he heard in Nick Lowe and Edmunds, a British rocker whose love for American roots music translated into something entirely new. There isn't a substandard second on the latter album and it continues to be the high point in Lee's catalog as a solo artist. As for the irritating element of this release: why does it take a non-American label to reissue the finest gems from the North American labels that birthed them? Given that both of these records appeared on labels now owned by Universal, there is no excuse that they haven't been issued stateside. Perhaps Universal is so busy putting out its no-brainer, no-passion, mediocre Millennium Collections to notice the treasures in its own vault. It's shameful. ~ Thom Jurek

Four years in the making, Hiding (1979) is the debut long-player from multi-instrumentalist Albert Lee (guitar/keyboards/bass/mandolin/vocals). After the dissolution of Heads Hands & Feet in the mid-'70s, Lee became a seminal contributor to the lucrative session musicians scene in Nashville, TN. Although he'd formed a band, Lee was better known for his work with the likes of Emmylou Harris, Eric Clapton, and even the Everly Brothers. Many of his A-list colleagues joined in for this affair, which coupled his astute countrified sensibilities with a few rockers just to prove that he hadn't lost his edge. Although much of the material had been cut with former Heads Hands & Feet mates Pete Gavin (drums/vocals), Ray Smith (bass), and Charles "Chas" Hodges (piano), a majority of the effort was overhauled. The two sides that would remain intact are the cover of John Reid's rocker "Now and Then It's Gonna Rain" -- which had first appeared on Reid's Fa‡ade (1976) platter -- and the walking-blues cadence on "Come Up and See Me Anytime." The latter highlights Lee's precise and clean fretwork, recalling Chet Atkins' action and sound. Kicking off the festivities is what could quite possibly be considered the definitive reading of "Country Boy." Lee initially recorded the track with Heads Hands & Feet, although the title would gain further significance as the hot-steppin' version on Ricky Skaggs' 1984 disc of the same name. The easy-flowing rural ballad "Billy Tyler" is marked by both Mickey Raphael's distinct harmonica wail and equally sublime vocals from Emmylou Harris. "Are You Wasting My Time" allows Lee to weave a delicate mandolin lead over the slightly melancholy waltz. "Setting Me Up" isn't quite as slinky as the original; however, the backing harmonies from Don Everly add an interesting texture absent from the Dire Straits rendering. Universal Music Japan issued Hiding on compact disc featuring a 24-bit/96-kHz digital remastering from Rubidium Atomic Clock. While a bit on the pricey side, the high-definition results speak for themselves. ~ Lindsay Planer

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