Lee McBee

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Lee McBee & The Confessors
General information
Genre (s) blues
founding 1989
Website McBee at myspace
Current occupation
Vocals, harmonica
 Lee McBee
guitar
 Karl Angerer
guitar
 Ralph Ybarra
Bass, vocals
 Patrick Recob
Drums
 Bob Burke, Tim Johnson, Allen Fishell

Lee McBee (born March 23, 1951 in Kansas City , Missouri , † June 24, 2014 ) was an American blues singer and harmonica player .

Life

McBee grew up in Kansas City, collecting blues and soul records in his teenage years. After moving to Lawrence, Kansas , he played in numerous blues and blues rock bands in the Midwest . Through his collaboration with Mike Morgan and The Crawl, where he replaced Darrell Nulisch as singer and harmonica player in 1989 , he became known nationwide. With this band he recorded six albums.

In 1999 he left Mike Morgan and formed his own band The Confessors. He performed regularly with the Confessors at BB's Lawnside BBQ, and when artists toured the Midwest, Lee McBee often went with them. Since April 2000 and throughout 2007 he worked again with Mike Morgan. In 2007 they made a joint European tour, where they performed at the 13th Lucerne Blues Festival and the France Blues Festival in Avignon. McBee can be heard on a few tracks on the 2008 album Stronger Every Day . In 2009 he was inducted into the Kansas Music Hall of Fame. He died in June 2014 at the age of 63.

Discography

With Mike Morgan

  • Raw & Ready (1990)
  • Mighty Fine Dancin '(1991)
  • Full Moon over Dallas (1992)
  • Ain't Worried No More (1994)
  • Let the Dogs Run (1994)
  • Looky Here! (1996)
  • Lowdown & Evil (1997)
  • The Road (1998)

With The Confessors

  • 1995 44 (1995)
  • Soul Deep (2002)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vienna Blues Spring concert announcement  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.viennabluesspring.org  
  2. ^ Myspace.com-Lee McBee
  3. ^ Myspace.com-Lee McBee
  4. ↑ http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2014/jun/25/lee-mcbee-renown-blues-musician-lawrence-has-died/
  5. ^ All Music Guide Lee McBee
personal data
SURNAME McBee, Lee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American blues singer and harmonica player
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Kansas City , Missouri
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 2014