Lee Morgan - Guitars, harmonicas, vocals. And currently in the studio adding some bass, piano, organ, coffee can shaker and various odds and ends.
Influences
Beatles, Bach, Cat Stevens, Ray Charles, Dobie Gray, Bill Withers, Marvin Gaye, James Taylor, Neil Young, Elton John, James Brown, CSN, Paul Rodgers, Otis Redding, The Band, Donnie Hathaway, CCR, Johnny Cash, Stevie Wonder & more...
"...Morgan simply bleeds music... Listen for a guy that sounds like the best classic singer-songwriter
mix-tape you never heard, and that’ll be Lee Morgan."
-Philadelphia's Origivation Magazine, August 2008 Issue
“His voice has a quality that’s beautiful, yet smoky and ragged. It’s a voice you remember because it sounds natural and spontaneous, filled with emotion. It’s a rock voice, a sound not usually heard in a Broadway musical. In fact, when Morgan’s not acting in a show, he can be found performing and recording with his music partner, Joe Lutton.”
A 2008 finalist at the World Cafe Live's Cream: The Best of Philly Rising, Lee Morgan is a singer-songwriter and actor born and raised in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Now living in between New York & Philadelphia, Lee is a self-taught musician who began writing songs as a young teenager, inspired by the Beatles, Stephen Stills, Ray Charles, Cat Stevens, Donny Hathaway, James Taylor, Neil Young, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, and many other gifted souls.
As an actor, Lee was in the original Broadway cast of The Who’s Tommy. For that show he taught himself blues harmonica and played and sang a version of Sonny Boy Williamson’s “Eyesight to the Blind” that critic Janet Maslin, in her New York Times review, called “scorching”. (Hear “Eyesight” and other numbers performed by Lee on the Original Broadway Cast album.)
Lee also originated a lead role in Brooklyn the Musical on Broadway, and has appeared in several shows off-Broadway and in regional theaters around the country. Lee juggles life as a singer songwriter with the acting career, but hotel rooms make for some of the best songs, so whether he’s doing theater or music on the road, there’s always a place to write.
Lee’s guitar, harmonica, and voice all work together with his unique songwriting and rock and roll roots to create an earthy and solid style some are calling Soul Folk.
Please scroll down for videos of lee performing live, to hear more of Lee's songs & read his lyrics at Sonicbids.
Ciao Lee , Thank you for the add and the friendship. you are very good, I like your music and the splendid voice. talk to you soon, and all of my best wishes to always listen to your good music. all the best.. from italy neal
Hi Lee, thanks for your friendship, and for the beautiful words that you have written in my myspace;-) I have sought your friendship because' you are good indeed really, you have a voice that I like in unbelievable way;-) because'i love the music and the jazz and the blues particularly. I hope for one day to see you in italy or in the States, I am a lot of times in the States for job. talk to you soon and always good music ok? all the best (thanks) your friend from italy neal
Hey Lee. I saw you Monday night at World Cafe Live. I was the younger gentleman that complimented you about your awesome performance. Your style and genre of music reminded of James Taylor. Keep on jamming.
Hey Lee, I've just posted a couple of the videos from the last Banjo Jim's song circle w/ you and Alec Gross and Rick Snyder sitting in on the hajhuj songs - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t__oUww9Rk
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