Clayton Lee

About the Artist
Clayton took advantage of a misspent youth by gaining the experience to entertain your socks off. When not playing in South Louisiana night clubs, he was working as a high pressure pipe welder on offshore oil platforms. He really learned to "pass a good time" from the fine people of South Louisiana. Clayton left the offshore work several years ago and now devotes his time to his family and his music. The Merle Haggard quote that " You have to hit people in the head, the heart, or the feet" is his inspiration.He writes about interesting characters and situations and puts them to song. Come and "pass a good time" with Clayton!

Product Description
Clayton Lee is not the same guy in the same hat singing the same song the same way. He sings from the place the man who wrote the songs would sing them from, because he did. All the songs on this album are written or co-written by Clayton.Is it roots music, Americana, rock, country, blues, jazz, or swing ? You'd have to say Clayton Lee's music transverses and blends the genres. It's real music, nothing contrived to match the flavor of the month. It's an honest, genuine, party time, foot stompin', howl at the moon, dance with the girl, laugh till your side hurts, cry in your beer, thrill ride you'll be glad you listened to!

Clayton Lee,Clayton Lee,Ooh Baby Ooh Records,Clayton Lee's music transverses and blends the genres of country, rock, blues, and swing while spanning the full spectrum of human emotion with interesting story telling.

Average customer rating: Stephen Foster Terrific choral renditions Make the exquisite into the mundane Great Drinking Music! One of my favorite CDs

Stephen Foster Song Book Manufacturer: RCA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Foster, Stephen | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Classical Music | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Opera & Vocal | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Swanee: The Music of Stephen Foster American Dreamer: Songs of Stephen Foster; Thomas Hampson; Jay Unger; Molly Mason Sea Shanties Songs by Stephen Foster, Vol. 1-2 Battle Cry of Freedom ASIN: B000003FAZ Release Date: 1993-05-11

Tracks:

1. Ring de Banjo
2. Beautiful Dreamer
3. Gentle Annie
4. Way Down in Ca-i-ro
5. My Old Kentucky Home
6. Old Black Joe
7. Dolcy Jones
8. Thou Art the Queen of My Song
9. Old Folks At Home
10. Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming
11. Oh! Susanna
12. Gentle Lena Clare
13. Nelly Bly
14. Some Folks
15. Laura Lee
16. Camptown Races
17. Traditional:Steal Away
18. Traditional:Nobody Knows (duh Trouble I See)
19. Traditional:I Want to Die Easy
20. Traditional:Dere's No Hidin' Place

Customer Reviews:

Stephen Foster.......2007-05-13

I saw a program on OPB about him so I got this. But, I didn't like it and don't listen to it. It is now under my bed collecting dust.

Terrific choral renditions.......2006-01-27

I own this CD and am especially fond of it for the solos by Thomas Pyle and Clayton Krehbiel, particularly the latter's singing of "I Want to Die Easy." All other soloists and choristers are equally superb, but those two gentlemen, sadly since deceased, were personal acquaintances and musical influences. If you don't have a taste for great choral arrangements, then pass, but you'll be missing out on something special. Enjoy it, you who adore the finest.

Make the exquisite into the mundane.......2004-07-21

Oh, puleeze, this is the sappiest rendition of these gorgeous songs ever recorded, right up there with sing-a-long with Mitch Miller.

I always hate when songs that are meant to be sung intimately as solos or duets are done by 7,000 harmonized voices.

I recommend this recording only to be listened to in a nice comfortable elevator

Great Drinking Music!.......2002-07-20

This CD Kicks ...! BR>The trombone riff in "Camptown Races" is incredible. The screaming axe in "Oh! Susanna" is mind-blowing. The fantastic jamming on this CD reminds me of HMTT. This CD is one monster hit after another. "Steal Away To Jesus", is a real kicker, although not quite as good as "Will You F'n Give Me Jesus".......

Just sit back, pop a cold one, maybe a whiskey shooter , pop this
baby on the victrolla and enjoy.......

Here's to ya Hawks...........

One of my favorite CDs.......2000-08-09

This is one of the best recordings of historic American music that I have heard, along with Joel Cohen's "Liberty Tree." The arrangements and interpretations of the songs are very beautiful. Some of the banjos are cheesy, but it is much much better than every other Foster recordings that I have heard. If you are in the mood to hear great music of Antebellum America, than I highly recommend this CD to you. You won't regret it!

Average customer rating: Great, great unrecognised master-piece!!! essential lee clayton

The Essential Lee Clayton 1978 Lee Clayton Manufacturer: Repertoire ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Outlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000050JH6 Release Date: 2001-02-16

Tracks:

1. Silver Stallion
2. Back Home in Tennessee
3. Border Affair
4. Old Number Nine
5. Like a Diamond
6. Tequila Is Addictive
7. Rainbow in the Sky
8. Saturday Night Special
9. I Ride Alone
10. 10,000 Years/Sexual Moon
11. Wind and Rain
12. Little Cocaine
13. Jaded Virgin
14. Industry
15. Won't You Give Me One More Chance
16. Where Is the Justice

Customer Reviews:

Great, great unrecognised master-piece!!!.......2005-04-12

Hello from England!....got into Mr. Clayton's music thru' fanzine read-up...never looked back!This ex jet pilot , from Tennesee, had one of the most remarkable voices AND poetic talent , of ALL the 70's revered 'singer-songwriters'!!!! Borrowing the amazing guitar skills of Philip Donnelly, no less, Lee penned some of my very favourite songs!A lot of them appear on this , so-called 'essential collection.Truth is , every song, on every album he released, (4/5), was exceptional!Here, tracks like "10,000 years/Sexual moon","LIKE A DIAMOND", "I RIDE ALONE"(one of his best), "Rainbow in the sky", "Tequila is addictive"....the list just goes on.....a truly remarkable singer-songwriter, ..with a voice both gravelly, sexual & masterful!!!!Lee Clayton! where are you ..please ..give us more songs!!!!This c.d. is an essential purchase to anyone who recognises Grrrrrrreat songs.BUY!!!!!

essential lee clayton.......2003-06-18

it is worth buying this cd if only for the track i ride alone,originaly from the naked child album a truly great talent who i am sure dire straits had in there collection

Average customer rating: More than 20 years later, I'm still impressed... Dark, strange stuff best album ever

Border Affair/Naked Child Lee Clayton Manufacturer: Edsel Records UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Outlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music General | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Traditional Country | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Singer Songwriters | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music Country | Imports | Stores | Music Folk | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0000011V6 Release Date: 1995-11-21

Tracks:

1. Silver Stallion
2. If You Can Touch Her At All
3. Back Home In Tennessee
4. Border Affair
5. Old Number Nine
6. Like A Diamond
7. My Woman My Love
8. Tequila Is Addictive
9. My True Love
10. Rainbow In The Sky
11. Saturday Night Special
12. I Ride Alone
13. 10000 Years/Sexual Moon
14. I Love You
15. Jaded Virgin
16. A Little Cocaine
17. If I Can Do It (So Can You)

Album Description

Clayton's first two albums for Capitol Records.

Customer Reviews:

More than 20 years later, I'm still impressed..........2005-04-19

I heard the album "Naked Child" the first time, when I was about 22 and immediately liked it. Especially songs like "I ride alone", "I love you" (a great love song) and "A little cocaine" were burned into my brain. I listen to all kinds of music (Blues, Rock, Grunge, Folk, Jazz, Punk, depending on my mood) and own several hundred CDs and albums... but now I'm 45 and must say that "Naked Child" and the songs mentioned above are still some of my absolute favorites.

It might be too late for an international career for Lee Clayton (I'm not sure he would liked that anyway), but if I had the money and could get hold of him, I'd invite him to Switzerland for a concert to introduce him to my friends. And yes, I am going to buy a second copy of this CD just to have it in case the first one should break one day.

By the way, in the sleeve note of his album "Another night" there's mention of U2's Bono saying that the only Country-singer that has influenced him was a pretty well unknown fellow named Lee Clayton ! That probably says a lot...

Highly recommended, I would even give it 10 stars.

Dark, strange stuff.......2001-10-06

Before Johnny Dowd and the Chicago/Bloodshot guys were tearing through and tearing up the iconography of country music, there was Lee Clayton.

Jet pilot turned country music singer, Clayton's straightforward, unsentimental phrasing conveys his dark, strange songs very well. He takes gospel, bluegrass and blues images and he stands them on their heads, with strong and authentic effect.

These two records are an excellent introduction to a songwriter's songwriter. Buy these and you'll want more.

best album ever.......1999-11-07

there is always a particular song or album which stays with you through out your life ,an essential piece of music that needs to be in everyones collection 'naked child' is one of those ...

Average customer rating: Sung Like This, They Should Stay Remembered

Songs We Forgot to Remember Manufacturer: Delos Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Griffes | Griffes, Charles T. | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Sullivan | Sullivan, Arthur | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Songs My Father Taught Me More Songs My Father Taught Me Favorite English Songs ASIN: B000000705 Release Date: 1996-02-23

Tracks:

1. I Hear You Calling Me
2. If I Could Tell You
3. Trees
4. Until
5. Passing By
6. Green-Eyed Dragon
7. Lost Chord
8. My Lovely Celia
9. Serenade (Rimpianto)
10. Calm as the Night
11. Do Not Go, My Love
12. Bird Songs at Eventide
13. Love's Philosophy
14. Love, Could I Only Tell Thee
15. Annabelle Lee
16. Little Boy Blue
17. World Is Waiting for the Sunrise
18. I Love, And the World Is Mine
19. Kashmiri Song
20. Evening Song
21. Cloths of Heaven
22. Perfect Day
23. I Love Life
24. Homing
25. When I Have Sung My Songs

Customer Reviews:

Sung Like This, They Should Stay Remembered.......2005-09-30

Commenting last June on CDs featuring the tenor, Kenny Baker, I wrote that his might be the most beautiful recorded tenor voice of the 20th century. My comparison included a lot of fine tenors, but I hadn't heard John Aler. Recently, I have been listening to him as Jupiter in Handel's SEMELE, then as Nadir in Bizet's PEARL FISHERS, and more recently as the soloist for this album. Kenny Baker's voice is pure, limpid, naturally musical throughout his range. The lower part of Aler's range has less music, but the upper part is richer than Baker's, and the whole is tremendously exciting. Nowhere is his voice lovelier than in the first song on this CD, "I Hear You Calling Me." Composed circa 1903, overflowing with love and longing, it became the immensely popular signature-piece in the 1920s and '30s of the Irish tenor, John McCormack. (Who, with less primitive technology, might well have provided the most beautiful recorded tenor voice of the century.)

I found some of the Aler collection quite familiar, others new and highly attractive (where have they been all my life?), and others that are lifted above the ordinary more by the singer's voice and art than by intrinsic merit. The songs are predominantly art or concert songs, composed mostly in the late 19th or early 20th century. Elegant, highly romantic, often ambitious, sometimes sentimental, popular in their time with lovers of semi-classical music, and often performed in concerts by leading singers of the day. Their lyrics include the poetry of Joyce Kilmer, Robert Herrick, Rabindranath Tagore, Shelley, Poe, Yeats, Eugene Field, and Sydney Lanier.

Did Aler get the idea for this CD from the fine baritone Thomas Hampson's CD, "An Old Song Resung"? Hampson's CD (unfortunately out of print), came out in 1990; Aler's, in 1995. The songs in both collections might well have been sung to similar audiences at similar concerts by similar singers. Still, the two CDs have only two works in common: - "Do Not Go, My Love," composed by Richard Hageman in 1917, and "When I Have Sung My Songs," by Ernest Charles in 1934. Both songs are superb, and both singers do them beautifully. I would give Aler a slight edge on the first; Hampson, on the second.

Average customer rating:

Lee Clayton Lee Clayton Manufacturer: Acadia Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Outlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Country | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Search John the Wolfking of L.A. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Waterloo, Tennessee Easy Tiger ASIN: B000K2Q8CW Release Date: 2006-11-13

Tracks:

1. Carnival Balloon
2. Bottles of Booze
3. Henry McCarty
4. New York City Suite 409: Lord She Don't Belong in New York City/Don't Y
5. Mama, Spend the Night with Me
6. Red Dancing Dress
7. Danger
8. Lonesome Whiskey
9. Ladies Love Outlaws

Album Description

Originally released in 1972. Nine classic songs by one of the most famous Country artists who was very underated at the time. Produced by Chip Young.

Album Details

Originally Released in 1972 and features the Classic "Ladies Love Outlaws" Covered by Waylon Jennings and Tom Rush Among Others.

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Another Night Lee Clayton Manufacturer: Provogue ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Outlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Folk | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000006XNH Release Date: 1990-01-01

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Don't Worry'Bout Nut'in' Manufacturer: Ooh Baby Ooh ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000085J8Y Release Date: 2002-12-21

Tracks:

1. Don't Worry 'Bout Nut'in'
2. Between Here And There
3. Blue Lipstick
4. Freedom To Stay
5. Shuffle On
6. True Believer
7. Broke Again
8. Until You're Gone
9. I Know What Love Can Do
10. Deja Vu Again
11. The Bottom Line
12. Big Top Hat
13. Bumble Bee No Listen

Album Description

"Don't Worry 'Bout Nut'in'" is a Country by way of Texas & Louisiana,not Nashville, Americana/Country-Rock blend that'll make yer big toe shoot up in yer boot. It's Clayton Lee's brand new album. It features thirteen songs six of which were written or co-writen by the artist. "Don't Worry 'Bout Nut'in'" is an expression familiar to anyone who has spent much time in South Louisiana. It reflects a regional attitude of a people who truly live a "work hard play harder" philosophy. The title song has a New Orleans down and dirty groove to make you want to move.

There's a Louisiana flavored mambo stomp, some Texas boogies, a shuffling tribute to Steve Ripley, a couple of country ballads, and an island inspired song about an insect. It's not contrived to match anything else, it's honest and authentic, not a trite re-hash, but it fits like your favorite boots.

Clayton had his friend Terry Wilson produce this one. Terry's producer credits include Teresa James, David Lynn Jones, and Randy Sharp. As a musician, he's played with Eric Burdon, Johnny Nash, Jimmy Reed, John Martin, and was a member of Backstreet Crawler. His songs have been covered by the likes of Paul Rogers, Maria Muldaur, and Kathy Mattea. The credits and accomplishments of the fine musicians on this album would take pages to list.

So listen to the sound samples. Take a trip down South with Clayton Lee, and "Don't Worry 'Bout Nut'in'"!

Average customer rating:

Clayton Lee Clayton Lee Manufacturer: Ooh Baby Ooh Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Bargain Box Sets | Country General | Country | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Country General | Country | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music General | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00005K2LP Release Date: 2001-05-09

Tracks:

1. Lady Luck
2. Happy Now
3. Why You Wanna Hide My Stuff?
4. Nobody Else Around
5. I Likes Dat Me
6. Ammunition First
7. The Losing Of My Mind
8. Lyin' In My Arms
9. Momma's Makin' Bread
10. Dugdemona Swamp
11. The Way You Make Me Feel
12. Say Hello To Grampaw For Me Jesus

Album Description

Clayton Lee is not the same guy in the same hat singing the same song the same way. He sings from the place the man who wrote the songs would sing them from, because he did. All the songs on this album are written or co-written by Clayton.Is it roots music, Americana, rock, country, blues, jazz, or swing ? You'd have to say Clayton Lee's music transverses and blends the genres. It's real music, nothing contrived to match the flavor of the month. It's an honest, genuine, party time, foot stompin', howl at the moon, dance with the girl, laugh till your side hurts, cry in your beer, thrill ride you'll be glad you listened to!

Average customer rating:

Spirit of the Twilight Lee Clayton Manufacturer: Dark Matter Distribution ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Outlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Folk | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000024EQZ Release Date: 2006-08-01

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An Anthology of Blues (Audio Cd) B.B. King , John Mayall , Canned Heat , John Lee Hooker , Charles Brown , Lightnin' Hopkins , Leadbelly , Mike Bloomfield , Joe Turner , and Pee Wee Clayton Manufacturer: Retro Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Blues | Styles | Music ASIN: B000N02HK8

Product Description

2Cd Canadian Import boxset of Classic Blues ! 2 Cds, 2 Cases, 1 Page Front Inserts, & Thin Cardboard Box ! Disc 1 Track Listing 1. The Thrill Is Gone - B.B. King 2. Mama Talk To Your Daughter - John Mayall 3. Got My Mojo Working - Canned Heat 4. Don't Cry To Me - Mike Bloomfield 5. Stormy Monday Blues - Joe Turner 6. Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand - Charles Brown 7. Boom Boom - John Lee Hooker 8. Somebody Got To Go - Gatemouth Moore 9. Baby What You Want Me To Do - Jimmy Reed 10. Lonesome Dog Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins Disc 2 Track Listing 1. First Time I Met The Blues - Buddy Guy 2. Off The Wall - James Cotton 3. Crawlin' Black Spider - John Lee Hooker 4. Driftin' Blues - Charles Brown 5. Blues For The Low Lands - Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee 6. The Bourgeois Blues - Leadbelly 7. Blues After Hours - Pee Wee Clayton 8. Bring Me A Shotgun - Lightnin' Hopkins 9. Alimony Blues - Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson 10. It's My Own Fault Baby - B.B. King

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2. Country Anthology: 25 American No.1 Hits V.2 [Import]
3. Country Classics, Vol. 2 [Import]
4. Country & Folk Roots [Import]
5. Country Greats [Box set] [Import]
6. Country Ladies
7. Cry [CD-single] [Import]
8. DJ as Seen on TV: a Country Music Tribute to Waylon Jennings
9. Don Gibson - All-Time Greatest Hits
10. Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes [Box set] [Import]

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