Reviews
Rick Lee: Natick
This solo CD features Lee and friends in a set of ballads and story songs, some traditional and some modern, connecting British Isles and Appalachian sources and mixing in a couple of country songs, too. [full review]
Rick Lee: Look What Thoughts Will Do
...tasteful arrangements centered on Lee's expressive baritone voice and banjo or keyboard playing...experience informs the authority of the performances. [full review]
Rick Lee: Look What Thoughts Will Do
Whether your musical preference is for Country, Contemporary Folk or Traditional Ballads, you are going to enjoy this CD. It is well recorded, the backings consummately tasteful and never intrusive. From the opening notes... to the final track..., your attention is held. [full review]
Rick Lee: Look What Thoughts Will Do
Lee uses his five-string banjo, keyboards, and deep baritone vocals to expand on the folk tradition. ...He breathes new life into six traditional tunes and songs by Lefty Frizzell, Bryan Bowers, Kate Wolf and the Louvin Brothers...[and] shows his songwriting skills with two pieces.... [full review]
Rick Lee: Natick
A MAGNIFICENT CD from one of the few TRUE folk artists around who still
tell stories and make music that speaks to the heart. [full review]
Rick Lee: Natick
(An) exceptional collection.... This CD is quite possibly the pick of Waterbug's quite delightful bunch! [full review]
Rick Lee: There's Talk About a Fence
This is a man who has lived. His voice, rich with experience, knows its way around a song. Andy May produced the CD in perfect sync with Lee, a mostly old-timey sound, highlighting Lee's ability on banjo and keyboards, and May's own talent on guitars and mandolin, or Lee on solo piano/keyboards. [full review]
Rick Lee: There's Talk About a Fence
Framing an eclectic mingling of songs with his resonant, adaptive and charming voice... Lee appears a musical raconteur.... This is the type of release that sneaks up on the listener..., the appreciation of it ... grows with each playing. [full review]
Rick Lee: There's Talk About a Fence
Rick Lee is a folksinger in the old vein, one who is more interested in singing a good song than becoming absorbed in narcissism that envelops many a singer/songwriter. Lee does write songs, of course, good ones like "The Best We Can Do" or the two instrumentals here, but his talent seems to be bringing to life and bringing to light fine songs by others that the listener may or may not have run across.... His arrangements are nicely varied and appropriate to the songs. [full review]
Rick Lee: “Look What Thoughts Will Do”
["Look What Thoughts Will Do" is]an immensely pleasurable album that exudes a sort of folksy wisdom. Here is a man with a voice that is warm enough to fry eggs on. And this great voice is backed by some consummate musicianship. An album I intend to keep and play. [full review]
