Alvin Lee
12 articles
Audio interviews
Interview by Roy Trakin, Rock's Backpages audio, 3 July 2012
The ex-Ten Years After guitar wrangler talks about his new album, Still on the Road to Freedom; no longer being the fastest guitar player in the West; memories of playing with Scotty Moore and Jerry Lee Lewis, and how Woodstock took him out of the small halls he preferred.
File format: mp3; file size: 26mb, interview length: 27' 06" sound quality: ** (phoner)
List of articles in the library
Alvin Lee and Mylon Lefevre: They'd Rather Do It Themselves
Interview by Harold Bronson, Zoo World, 14 February 1974
LOS ANGELES – Alvin Lee, hyperactive on-stage, doesn't race around the familiar public relations office bumping into desks and chairs with incessantly twitching fingers. Ten ...
Alvin Lee: On The Road To Freedom
Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 11 April 1974
TWO OFTEN UNPERSUASIVE musicians have combined to make an album better than any of their past work. Alvin Lee and Mylon LeFevre may have always ...
Alvin Lee & Co: In Flight (Chrysalis)
Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 16 November 1974
CLAP YO' hands and stomp those feet, here's some funky music, you can't beat. ...
Alvin Lee: Alvin Thrills the U.S. Army Freaks
Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, New Musical Express, 28 December 1974
ALVIN LEE is a deceptive character. He's never really worked at making his presence felt in the way Rod Stewart or Elton John have done, ...
Alvin Lee's Long Road To Freedom
Interview by Barbara Charone, Rolling Stone, 13 February 1975
LONDON – Alvin Lee is on the road again, and this time he's not going home. ...
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 22 March 1975
ALVIN LEE is getting into self-sufficiency. Along with many fellow Britons, alarmed at the daily news, he is determined to make full use of the ...
Review by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 10 April 1975
BRITISH BLUES has always been a workmanlike form, as much a job as a pleasure. Alvin Lee is smart enough to realize this, and having ...
Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 11 October 1975
TO VISIT ALVIN LEE at home is seemingly to see a man living the perfect fantasy life – 40 room mansion, large gardens, recording studio, ...
Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 1 May 1976
AT 3PM, Alvin Lee, benevolent despot, was still asleep – he hadn't gone to bed until 9.30am – so it seemed a good excuse to ...
Is There Life After Rock Guitar Godhead?
Overview by Roy Trakin, Musician, 1994
ALVIN LEE HAD reached the pinnacle of rock guitardom. Of course, by the time Woodstock was over, his "I'm Going Home... by helicopter" histrionics would ...
Interview by Roy Trakin, Rock's Backpages, March 2013
This tribute piece is based on an interview conducted on the release of Alvin's 2012 album Still on the Road to Freedom, a sequel of ...
see also Ten Years After
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