Werner Lämmerhirt

Werner Lämmerhirt (born 17 March 1949 in Berlin ) is a German guitarist.

Life

Lämmerhirt is considered a pioneer of fingerstyle technique in Germany. He appeared in the 1970s as a studio musician on recordings by Hannes Wader and accompanied him on tour. His virtuoso guitar playing is based on the American country blues and guitarists like Marcel Dadi and Davey Graham, whose instrumental Angie (not to be confused with the Rolling Stones hit ) is on Lämmerhirts first solo album, released in 1974 on the label stockfish been. Another characteristic is his smoky vocals. In 1975 he took, among others, the guitarist Klaus Weiland and Sammy Vomáčka on a highly regarded session album. While he usually picked on the early albums English songs or wrote himself, Lämmerhirt presented on his later albums own German language songs.

1998 Werner Lämmerhirt was awarded the Ravensburger Kupferle.

Since 2001 organize Lämmerhirt and the Arts and Cultural Association eV Kultini in November each year, the event "Night of the soft tones " in Bodenwerder.

Discography

• Ten Thousand Miles (1974, stockfish )
• With Friends, For Friends (1975, stockfish, among others, Klaus Weiland and Sammy Vomáčka )
• The Third (1976, stockfish )
• White Spots (1978, Froggy Records)
• All Alone (1979, Froggy Records)
• Roll on River ( Wizz Jones) (1981, Freak Folk )
• Crossroads (1982, Froggy Records)
• Personal Favourites (1986, Froggy Records)
• Whitewater (1988, stockfish )
• The Early Years (1991, stockfish )
• In Between Times (1992, stockfish )
• Collection I (1995, stockfish )
• Collection II (1995, stockfish )
• Sound and Fury (1997, stockfish )
• Magic strings (1999, stockfish )
• Home (2003, Toca Records)
• Hard times (2007, dmg / Broken Silence )
• Time travel (2009, Blubird Café Berlin )
• Different point of view (2011, dmg / Broken Silence )

Recordings in which Werner Lämmerhirt participated

Notes and tablatures

• Werner Lämmerhirt: Pickings. Bad Godesberg in 1981, ISBN 3802400984
• Werner Lämmerhirt: Keep On picking. Bad Godesberg, 1986, ISBN 3-8024-0152-2
• Various Artists: playing techniques of the folk guitar. > Stefan Grossman. Doc Watson. Dave Evans. Werner Lämmerhirt. David Qualey. Marcel Dadi < ( Edition Metropol - Cologne)
• Werner Lämmerhirt - The Early Years, AMB3009
• Werner Lämmerhirt - A Songbook, AMB3010