Lee Clayton
Lee Clayton ( born October 29, 1942 in Russellville, Alabama) is an American musician and composer.
Stylistically, it is located in the area between rock and country. Clayton grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and began playing the pedal steel guitar at the age of 7 years, harmonica and guitar at age 9. After graduating from the United States Air Force, he moved to Nashville in 1969 and began a career as a songwriter. His first big success was the song " Ladies Love Outlaws" from the year 1972, with Waylon Jennings debuted at number 11 on the Billboard charts. In 1973 he released his first album " Lee Clayton ", with the Clayton was dissatisfied. In addition, he continued to compose songs for other musicians, such as " Lone Wolf" for Jerry Jeff Walker or "If You Could Touch Her at All " for Willie Nelson.
In 1978, the album "Border Affair" on the market, which although well received by the critics, but flopped at the buyers. In 1979 appeared his most successful LP "Naked Child " ( in this production also Klaus Voormann was involved as a bassist ) whose best-known work, " I ride alone" was presented in a style that reminded very much of Bob Dylan. For example, one critic wrote at the time the Berlin city magazine tip " Clayton sounds like Dylan would sound like if he wanted to sound like Dylan ." 1979 Clayton went on a world tour that took him to Germany in 1980, where, among other things, a 30-minute TV special at WDR Rockpalast arose.
In 1981 he published the work "The Dream Goes On", which was his last album for a long time. In the 1980s he published two autobiographical books. In 1990 appeared a new live CD titled " Another Night ", which was recorded in Oslo. Since then, it has become quiet around Lee Clayton.
2010 Lee Clayton published on various music download sites eight previously unknown songs, including " We The People ", to which also there is video on Youtube.
In February 2013, the e-book " The Streets Of Nashville: The Little Book " was published, a collection of song lyrics, poems, and lyrics Clayton.