UNRELEASED: LENNY BREAU ON CLASSICAL GUITAR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MAINE. APRIL 1976--PART ONE скачать в хорошем качестве

UNRELEASED: LENNY BREAU ON CLASSICAL GUITAR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MAINE. APRIL 1976--PART ONE

If you enjoy this post, please consider subscribing to The Lenny Breau Archives Channel. We are dedicated to presenting rare, seldom heard/seen, and out-of-print music, TV and film footage, interviews and workshops of the great master guitarist, Lenny Breau Listing of Content on Lenny Breau Archives You Tube Channel    / @thelennybrea.  . Lenny Breau Archives Face Book Page/Group   / 15000.  . Please send questions and comments to LennyBreauArchives@protonmail.com Historical Information and Track Index After living in Canada for almost twenty years, Lenny returned permanently to the United States in late 1975. Lenny moved in with his mother, Betty Cody, in his hometown of Auburn, and began playing gigs wherever he could find them. Mike Hughes was a student at the University of Maine in Orono, a college town about ten miles north of Bangor. He and a friend named Andrew Periale had been bringing in musicians to perform concerts at the university. These performers were mainly local jazz and folk musicians although classical guitarist Leona Boyd, who was in the early stages of her career, also played a concert at Orono. Mike knew and loved Lenny’s music and when he heard that Lenny had returned to Maine,contacted Lenny to book him for three concerts between January and April of 1976. The concerts took place in a small room within the Student Union building, Andrew Periale related in a 2004 interview: “ It was a cabaret setting: there might have been fifty students. It was a pretty low pressure stage. Most of the audience people didn’t really know his music. The ones who did were a small group of us who played guitar… He played a totally broad range of stuff from jazz standards that would just take off into the cosmos to Merle Travis stuff to these fantasies based on an Arabian tune about a soldier about to be hanged. He’d do novelty tunes where he was doing two tunes at once. It made for a good evening-really well-rounded.” Lenny was in good spirits during the concerts and entertained the crowd with comedic asides as well as his music, says Andrew. “ His sense of humour was something you might hear in a weird jazz club and a bit out of place at the university of Maine which was not a very sophisticated place. It was that real stony, jazzy sense of humour. He could be quite goofy. People liked him and thought he was very funny. He gave really interesting intros to all the songs. Everybody really respected him and you couldn’t hear him without being stunned by what he was doing whether you were a musician or not. “ The recording presented here was probably made in April of 1976 by Michael Kressy. This is the first of three parts which we will be posting consecutively. Track Listing 1. Intro 2. Solea 02:55 3. Days of Wine and Roses 08:50 4. Put Your Little Foot Right Out 15:40