Lee Bates - Pony Blues.

Lee Bates is one half of Blues duo Lee Bates & Billy Newton.
Described by some as the "Bastard son of Jim Murray"(Hokum Hotshots), Lee is one of the Northeast's finest slide guitarists. Playing the music of Son House, Bukka White, Fred McDowell and the like, Lee made his first on-stage appearance aged eighteen with the legendary Brian Cookman. Since then Lee has gone on to appear with many of today's Blues greats, such as; Bob Brozman, Kent Du Chaine, Catfish Keith, Woody Mann as well as homegrown talent like Ray Stubbs, The Hokum Hotshots and Steve Phillips. More recently Lee's signature slide-guitar featured on singer/songwriter Richard Dawson's debut album. From the Delta to Chicago, Ragtime and Shuffles Lee can play it all!

For the last several years Lee has been performing around the UK with Harp player Billy Newton as a Duo.
They are both superb players in the vain of Sonny Terry and Brownie Mcgee. A CD "All talk & no action", is available to purchase from their website with a brand new recording "Dynamite" on the way and a lot more original tunes included.

Here Lee is perfoming one of the Great Charlie Patton's tunes "Pony Blues"

To book them or for more info check out:

www.freewebs.com/leeandbilly
www.myspace.com/leebatesbillynewton

Category:

Music

Tags:

• blues
• guitar
• slide
• delta
• country
• gettin
• the
• son
• house
• bukka
• white
• fred
• mcdowell
• robert
• johnson
• charlie
• patton

[mara235]

Real fine - but why are white guys the ones who this kinda thing now?

[echofilms]

Not sure what you are asking?

[eddiefrank]

TEAR IT UP SONNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!! Gotta mp3 or a disc of this an more?

[tommott77]

Care to share your tuning on the tune? Open D perhaps?

[TheQualityShow]

Go on lee son!!!

[toddallenhooper]

Sweet!

[rezalini]

yea doobiesz

[GoyoBlues]

te felicito Lee, desde Argentina te saluda Goyo, muy buena version, y muy lindo ese tricono!!! saludos!!

[ivanluisgomes]

very good!!!

thank you for post it!

[Jimiimij]

Awsome Guitar. It sounds great.

[bakedsushi]

somkin smokin smokin....my brotha u got it down....did i say smokin....lol

[OldWailer]

Wow! THAT IS GREAT!!!